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From storefront to monument : tracing the public history of the Black museum movement /
Today well over two hundred museums focusing on African American history and culture can be found throughout the United States and Canada. Many of these institutions trace their roots to the 1960s and 1970s, when the struggle for racial equality inspired a movement within the black community to make...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Public history in historical perspective.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: museums on the front lines: confronting the "Conspiracy of silence"
- "When civil rights are not enough": building the Black museum movement
- "Not in my backyard": the contested origins of the African American Museum of Philadelphia
- Confronting the "Tyranny of relevance": exhibits and the politics of representation
- "To satisfy a deadline but little else": the public debut of the African American Museum of Philadelphia
- Rocky transitions: Black museums approach a new era
- A museum for the future: the National Museum of African American History and culture
- Conclusion: the ties that bind: museums as community agents.