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Contested histories in public space : memory, race, and nation /

Analyzes the ways national histories are told in public representations, with a particular focus on the ways race and the imperial experience are incorporated into national narratives.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Walkowitz, Daniel J., Knauer, Lisa Maya, 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.
Colección:Radical perspectives.
E-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.