Contested histories in public space memory, race, and nation / edited by Daniel J. Walkowitz and Lisa Maya Knauer.

Other author Walkowitz, Daniel J.
Other author Knauer, Lisa Maya, 1956-
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham, [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.
Descriptionviii, 365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesRadical perspectives
Radical perspectives. ^A581818
Contents Two peoples, one mission: biculturalism and visitor "experience" at Te Papa/"Our Place," New Zealand's new national museum / Charlotte J. Macdonald -- Contesting time, place, and nation in the First Peoples' Hall of the Canadian Museum of Civilization / Ruth B. Phillips and Mark Salber Phillips -- "Unfinished business": public history in a postcolonial nation / Paul Ashton and Paula Hamilton -- Colonial legacies and winners' tales : exhibiting Asia in Britain : commerce, consumption, and globalization / Durba Ghosh -- The Alamo : myth, public history, and the politics of inclusion / Richard R. Flores -- Ellis Island redux : the imperial turn and the race of ethnicity / Daniel J. Walkowitz -- A cultural conundrum? old monuments and new regimes : the Voortrekker Monument as symbol of Afrikaner power in a postapartheid South Africa / Albert Grundlingh -- Narratives of power, the power of narratives : the failing foundational narrative of the Ecuadorian nation / O. Hugo Benavides -- Affective distinctions : race and place in Oaxaca / Deborah Poole -- Marking remembrance : nation and ecology in two riverbank monuments in Kathmandu / Anne M. Rademacher -- Saving Rio's "Cradle of Samba" : outlaw uprisings, racial tourism and the progressive state in Brazil / Paul Amar -- Afrocuban religion, museums, and the Cuban nation / Lisa Maya Knauer -- Haunting Delgrès / Laurent Dubois.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [329]-351) and index.
LCCN 2008048029
ISBN9780822342175 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822342170 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780822342366 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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