Slave sites on display : reflecting slavery's legacy through contemporary "flash" moments /
At Senegal's House of Slaves, Barack Obama's presidential visit renewed debate about authenticity, belonging and the myth of return, not only for the president, but also for the slave fort itself. At the African Burial Ground National Monument in New York, up to ten thousand slave decedent...
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2019]
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| Series: | African diaspora material culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Iconic sons of Africa in the belly of the stone monster
- Talking bones at the African burial ground in New York
- Founding fathers, chimeras, and American Africanisms at presidential estates
- The neo middle passenger and the traveling slave ship exhibition
- The bench by the road slave memorial at Sullivan's Island
- Epilogue: opening the Smithsonian National Museum of African American history and culture
- Notes
- Selected bibliography
- Index.