Politics of memory : making slavery visible in the public space

Politics of memory : making slavery visible in the public space / edited by Ana Lucia Araujo.

The public memory of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade, which some years ago could be observed especially in North America, has slowly emerged into a transnational phenomenon now encompassing Europe, Africa, and Latin America, and even Asia - allowing the populations of African descent, organized...

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Other Authors: Araujo, Ana Lucia (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2012.
Series:Routledge studies in cultural history ; 17.
Subjects:
Slavery > Historiography > Social aspects.
Slave trade > Historiography > Social aspects.
Slavery > Musems.
Slave trade > Museums.
Collective memory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Collective memory
Sklaverei
Öffentlicher Raum
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Table of Contents:
  • Transnational memory of slave merchants : making the perpetrators visible in the public space / Ana Lucia Araujo
  • Reasons for silence : tracing the legacy of internal slavery and slave trade in contemporary Gambia / Alice Bellagamba
  • With or without roots : conflicting memories of slavery and indentured labor in the Mauritian public space / Mathieu Claveyrolas
  • Smoldering memories and burning questions : the politics of remembering Sally Bassett and slavery in Bermuda / Quito Swan
  • Making slavery visible (again): the nineteenth-century roots of a revisionist recovery in New England / Margot Minardi
  • Teaching and commemorating slavery and abolition in France : from organized forgetfulness to historical debates / Nelly Schmidt
  • Commemorating a guilty past : the politics of memory in the French former slave trade cities / Renaud Hourcade
  • The challenge of memorializing slavery in North Carolina : the unsung founders memorial and the North Carolina Freedom Monument Project / René Ater
  • Museums and slavery in Britain : the bicentenary of 1807 / Geoffrey Cubitt
  • Museums and sensitive histories : the International Slavery Museum / Richard Benjamin
  • The art of memory : São Paulo's Afrobrasil Museum / Kimberly Cleveland
  • Afro-Brazilian heritage and slavery in Rio de Janeiro community museums / Francine Saillant, Pedro Simonard
  • Exhibiting slavery at the New-York Historical Society / Kathleen Hulser
  • Museums and the story of slavery: the challenge of language / Regina Faden.

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