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

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Routledge, 2012.
Description
viii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-290) and index.
    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.
    Other title(s)
    Making slavery visible in the public space
    ISBN
    • 9781138200753 ((paperback ; : alk. paper))
    • 1138200751 ((paperback ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780415526920 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
    • 0415526922 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2011046232
    OCLC
    764304841
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