{"product_id":"lifting-the-shadow-reshaping-memory-race-and-slavery-in-u-s-museums-paperback-softback-9781978842632","title":"Lifting the Shadow; Reshaping Memory, Race, and Slavery in U.S. Museums (Paperback \/ softback) 9781978842632","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLifting the Shadow\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReshaping Memory, Race, and Slavery in U.S. Museums\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAmy Sodaro (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781978842632\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 November 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e202 pages, 12 color images\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.045 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLifting the Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e is a path-breaking work and provides readers with eye-opening analyses of how three relatively recent U.S. memorial museums rethink and represent the complicated, violent, and often ignored history and repercussions of U.S. slavery and racism. This well-timed volume will be a valuable asset in the classroom for specialists as well as a public audience interested in issues of race, history, and representation.\" - Joyce Apsel (president of the Institute for the Study of Genocide) \"How is the United States grappling with its difficult pasts and engaging with histories that make us uncomfortable? \u003ci\u003eLifting the Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e examines the extraordinary memory museums that have been built in the early twenty-first century, museums that demand of the nation a reckoning with the difficult pasts of slavery and racism, museums that shape historical engagement in ways that would not have been possible before. Amy Sodaro shows us that despite the polarization and political retrenchment of our times, these museums point with hope toward new ways of living with difficult pasts and being in America.\" - Marita Sturken (author of Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9\/11 Era) \"Amy Sodaro’s accessibly written, thoughtful, and timely comparative study of three pivotal U.S. museums shows that they manage to link historical slavery with contemporary racial injustice to varying degrees. Most importantly, she argues that memorial museums have a responsibility in democratic societies, to not only point out and situate oppression in the historical past but highlight its ongoing structural embeddedness in our present.\" - Silke Arnold-de Simine (author of Mediating Memory in the Museum: Empathy, Trauma, Nostalgia)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eLifting the Shadow: Reshaping Memory, Race, and Slavery in U.S. Museums\u003c\/i\u003e examines a small but significant wave of new U.S. memorial museums that focus on slavery and its ongoing violent legacies, including the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Montgomery’s Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration, and Greenwood Rising, which commemorates the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. These museums are challenging historical narratives of slavery and race by placing racial oppression at the center of American history and linking historical slavery to contemporary racial injustice, but they have opened in a period marked by growing racial tension, white nationalism, and political division. Sodaro examines how the violence of U.S. slavery and its lasting legacies is negotiated in these museums, as well as their potential to contribute to the development of a more critical historical memory of race in the U.S. at this particularly volatile sociopolitical moment.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction                         \u003cbr\u003e 1          Race and Memory in the US: A Shifting Memorial Landscape                   \u003cbr\u003e 2          Telling “\u003cbr\u003eAmerica’\u003cbr\u003es Story”\u003cbr\u003e: National Museum of African American History and Culture         \u003cbr\u003e 3          “\u003cbr\u003eShining the light of truth”\u003cbr\u003e: The Legacy Museum                                               \u003cbr\u003e 4          “\u003cbr\u003eAfter a century of silence”\u003cbr\u003e: Greenwood Rising Historical Center                                             \u003cbr\u003e 5          America’\u003cbr\u003es New Memorial Museums\u003cbr\u003e 6          Conclusion: Memory’\u003cbr\u003es Present and Future                                              \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography                                                                                                                   \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681228615960,"sku":"9781978842632","price":23.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/lifting-the-shadow-reshaping-memory-race-and-slavery-in-u-s-museums-paperback-softback-9781978842632","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}