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

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Walkowitz, Daniel J., Knauer, Lisa Maya, 1956-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
Series:Radical perspectives.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Two peoples, one museum: 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
  • 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.