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

Other author Araujo, Ana Lucia.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge, 2012.
Descriptionviii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesRoutledge studies in cultural history ;
Routledge studies in cultural history 17. ^A517008
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [271]-290) and index.
LCCN 2011046232
ISBN9780415526920
ISBN0415526922 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780203119075 (ebk.)
ISBN020311907X (ebk.)

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