Blunt instruments : recognizing racist cultural infrastructure in memorials, museums, and patriotic practices / Kristin Ann Hass.
Title:
Blunt instruments : recognizing racist cultural infrastructure in memorials, museums, and patriotic practices / Kristin Ann Hass.
ISBN:
9780807006719
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Publication Information:
Boston : Beacon Press, [2022]
©2022
Physical Description:
247 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents:
Introduction. White lies matter -- Section I. Memorials -- Monumental basics -- 1. Lost cause won -- 1776-1890. Fits and starts -- 1890-1920. First memorial boom -- 2. The lost cause keeps winning -- 1920-1980. Living memorials and dying cities -- 1980-2010. Second memorial boom in three acts -- 2010-present. Tumbling down and rising up -- Section II. Museums -- Museum basics -- 3. White temples emerged -- Pre-1870. Cabinets of curiosities and the first American museums -- 1870-1940. First golden age of American museums -- 4. White temples reshaped? -- 1965-2020. King Tut and Emmett Till : the old school blockbuster and the new permanence of "Negro buildings" -- The summer of 2020 -- Section III. Patriotic practices -- Patriotic practices basics -- 5. Allegiance got pledged -- 1776-1865. A fraught beginning -- 1866-1916. Patriotism from the ground up -- 6. Allegiance got paid for -- 1917-1976. Federally mandated patriotism -- 2001-2021. Paid patriotism and outrageous refusal -- Conclusion. Remaking a made thing.
Summary:
"A field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States and how to reimagine a more deeply shared cultural infrastructure for the future"-- Provided by publisher.
Monuments, museums, and everyday patriotic practices have made headlines for most of the twenty-first century, yet they are seldom looked at together or understood explicitly as tools used by particular people in particular times and places to shape the culture in particular ways. Hass explores the complicated histories of sites of cultural infrastructure: memorials in parks, museums visited by school kids, and routine practices of patriotism. She unearths legacies of white supremacy and traces movements to reevaluate and resist countless sites that have been doing this work, and asks that we look for sites that actually work to tell us who we are, how we came to be, and who belongs in the country. -- adapted from jacket
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OCLC Number:
on1299144385
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