Lifting the Shadow examines how the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Montgomery’s Legacy Museum and Tulsa’s Greenwood Rising are challenging the national narrative on slavery and race by placing racial oppression at the center of American history and linking historical slavery to contemporary racial injustice.
Lifting the Shadow examines how the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Montgomery’s Legacy Museum and Tulsa’s Greenwood Rising are challenging the national narrative on slavery and race by placing racial oppression at the center of American history and linking historical slavery to contemporary racial injustice.
Amy Sodaro is an associate professor of sociology at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York. She is the author of Exhibiting Atrocity: Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence (Rutgers University Press 2018) and coeditor of Museums and Sites of Persuasion: Politics, Memory and Human Rights and Museums and Mass Violence: Perils and Potential.
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Introduction: Memory in Post-Postracial America 1 1 Race and Memory in the United States: A Shifting Memorial Landscape 13 2 Telling “America’s Story”: The National Museum of African American History and Culture 37 3 “Shine the Light of Truth”: The Legacy Museum 63 4 “After a Century of Silence”: Greenwood Rising 89 5 America’s New Memorial Museums 112 Conclusion: Memory’s Present and Future 135 Acknowledgments 151 Notes 153 References 163 Index 181 Introduction 1 Race and Memory in the US: A Shifting Memorial Landscape 2 Telling “America’s Story”: National Museum of African American History and Culture 3 “Shining the light of truth”: The Legacy Museum 4 “After a century of silence”: Greenwood Rising Historical Center 5 America’s New Memorial Museums 6 Conclusion: Memory’s Present and Future Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography
Introduction: Memory in Post-Postracial America 1 1 Race and Memory in the United States: A Shifting Memorial Landscape 13 2 Telling “America’s Story”: The National Museum of African American History and Culture 37 3 “Shine the Light of Truth”: The Legacy Museum 63 4 “After a Century of Silence”: Greenwood Rising 89 5 America’s New Memorial Museums 112 Conclusion: Memory’s Present and Future 135 Acknowledgments 151 Notes 153 References 163 Index 181 Introduction 1 Race and Memory in the US: A Shifting Memorial Landscape 2 Telling “America’s Story”: National Museum of African American History and Culture 3 “Shining the light of truth”: The Legacy Museum 4 “After a century of silence”: Greenwood Rising Historical Center 5 America’s New Memorial Museums 6 Conclusion: Memory’s Present and Future Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography
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