Desegregating the Past : : The Public Life of Memory in the United States and South Africa / / Robyn Autry.
At the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa, visitors confront the past upon arrival. They must decide whether to enter the museum through a door marked "whites" or another marked "non-whites." Inside, along with text, they encounter hanging nooses and other reminders o...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 25 b&w photographs |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Museums Visited
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Desegregating the Past
- 1. Memory Entrepreneurs: History in the Making
- 2. The Curated Past: Remembering the Collective
- 3. Managing Collective Representations
- 4. Memory Deviants: Breaking the Collective
- Conclusion: Museumification of Memory
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index