Lest We Forget: Exhibiting (and Remembering) Slavery in African-American Museums

Brooms, Derrick R.

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“…Or they address it as part of a wider history, as at the International Museum of Slavery in Liverpool (Hourcade 2013) or the Smithsonian's National Museum for African American History and Culture in Washington, DC (Holt 2018). In recent years, scholars and curators have debated the agenda and challenges of interpreting slavery, race, and racism at historic sites and existing museums (see, for example, Araujo 2020; Brooms 2012;Carter et al 2014;Eichstedt and Small 2002;Galles and Perry 2014;Message 2018;and Skipper and Davidson 2018).…”

Section: Plantation Memories Plantation Tourism Plantation Museumsmentioning

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Plantation Memories, Labor Identities, and the Celebration of Heritage

Bastos

2020

Museum Worlds

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Plantation museums and memorials play different roles in coming to terms with a past of racialized violence. In this article, I briefly review the academic literature on plantations, refer to the plantation–race nexus, address the critical and acritical uses of plantation memories, discuss modes of musealizing plantations and memorializing labor, and present a community-based museum structure: Hawaii’s Plantation Village. This museum project is consistent with a multiethnic narrative of Hawai‘i, in that it provides both an overview of the plantation experience and a detailed account of the cultural heritage of each national group recruited for the sugar plantations. By providing a sense of historical belonging, a chronology of arrival, and a materialized representation of a lived experience, this museum plays an active and interactive role in the shaping of a collective memory of the plantation era, selecting the more egalitarian aspects of a parallel coexistence rather than the hierarchies, violence, tensions and land appropriation upon which the plantations rested.

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Section: Plantation Memories Plantation Tourism Plantation Museumsmentioning

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Plantation Memories, Labor Identities, and the Celebration of Heritage

Bastos

2020

Museum Worlds

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“…Of course, the impact of African American or African museums in the United States largely occurs in the museums themselves and in their educational outreach programs, particularly in their local schools (Brooms, ; Cooks, ; Davis, ; Zulu, ). Fleming () reminded readers that “rather than being marginal institutions, African American museums grow directly from the culture and history of African Americans” (p. 1021).…”

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Visual Expressions of Black Identity: African American and African Museum Websites

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Pettiway

2017

J Commun

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This qualitative and quantitative content analysis examines 46 African and African American museum websites. Merelman's cultural projection concept serves as a foundation to explain the societal importance of Black cultural expression. The analysis reviews how the African-and African American-centric organizations communicate Black and organizational identities on their digital platforms. Described are images, sound, and visual dynamism. The findings add to the literature on counterstereotypes and digital cultural expression, linking visual communication research with intercultural communication and strategic communication.

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“…(2016, p. 26). Nor is a radical Black counter-commemoration realized through only exhibits detailing slavery, or by Civil Rights Monuments and Black statuary, though those are important (Brooms, 2011;Dwyer & Alderman, 2008a;Pelak, 2015).…”

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Black monument matters: Place‐based commemoration and abolitionist memory work

Moulton

2021

Sociology Compass

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Discrete monuments remain in the domain of the symbolic, land as mnemonic shifts to a more materialist commemorative praxis. This paper proposes a turn toward land as mnemonic of Black freedom struggle and place‐making. Reviewing the scholarship on memoryscapes, I show that the critical insights of Black ecologies and geographies scholarship has moved further than traditional scholarship and offers multiple openings for new monuments and commemorative practices in honor of Black life. Black socio‐ecologies scholarship centralizes the place‐based epistemologies, spatial histories, and experiences of Black communities and clarifies the form and function of land or plots as mnemonics of the Black freedom struggle, place‐making practices, and spatial epistemologies. Black plots are, therefore, ideal for orienting a new mode of Black commemoration. While much of the paper centers monuments to Black people, if Black commemoration is foregrounded in abolitionists thinking and practices, such memorialization must grapple with the histories of Indigenous dispossession and settler‐colonialism. The paper concludes with a consideration of what the argument for land as mnemonic of Black freedom struggle and place‐making might mean for future avenues of research.

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Lest We Forget: Exhibiting (and Remembering) Slavery in African-American Museums

Cited by 11 publications

References 21 publications

Plantation Memories, Labor Identities, and the Celebration of Heritage

Plantation Memories, Labor Identities, and the Celebration of Heritage

Visual Expressions of Black Identity: African American and African Museum Websites

Black monument matters: Place‐based commemoration and abolitionist memory work

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