Negro Building : Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums /

Focusing on black Americans' participation in world's fairs, Emancipation expositions, and early black grassroots museums, Negro Building traces the evolution of black public history from the Civil War through the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Mabel O. Wilson gives voice to the figur...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wilson, Mabel O. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012]
Subjects:
African Americans > Exhibitions > History.
African Americans > Museums > History.
Exhibitions > Social aspects > United States > History.
Museums > Social aspects > United States > History.
Memory > Social aspects > United States > History.
Public history > United States > History.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > United States.
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
Anti-racism > United States > History.
Noirs américains > Expositions > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Musées > Histoire.
Musées > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire.
Histoire appliquée > États-Unis > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Droits > Histoire.
Antiracisme > États-Unis > Histoire.
Expositions > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire.
ART > American > General.
ART > Museum Studies.
African Americans > Civil rights
Anti-racism
Memory > Social aspects
Museums > Social aspects
Public history
Race relations
Enslaved persons > Emancipation
United States > Race relations > History.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire.
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Focusing on black Americans' participation in world's fairs, Emancipation expositions, and early black grassroots museums, Negro Building traces the evolution of black public history from the Civil War through the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Mabel O. Wilson gives voice to the figures that conceived the curatorial content--Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, A. Philip Randolph, Horace Cayton and Margaret Burroughs. As the 2015 opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., approaches, the book reveals why the black cities of Chicago and Detroit became the sites of major black historical museums rather than the nation's capital--until now.
Item Description:"Reprint 2019"--Walter de Gruyter digital title page
"George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies."
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 442 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-389) and index.
ISBN:9780520952492
0520952499

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