Desegregating the past
Subtitle: the public life of memory in the United States and South Africa
By: Robyn Autry
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780231177580
Subjects: Historiography; Race relations; Blacks; Memory; Historical museums; African Americans; Racism
Description: "A sociological comparison of how South Africa and the United States engage and struggle with the institutionalized racism of their respective pasts through the lens of the development of history museums in both countries"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Desegregating the past; title: Memory entrepreneurs : history in the making; title: The curated past : remembering the collective; title: Managing collective representations; title: Memory deviants : breaking the collective; title: Conclusion: The museumification of memory.