Lifting the Shadow: Reshaping Memory, Race, and Slavery in U.S. Museums (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781978842649)

Lifting the Shadow: Reshaping Memory, Race, and Slavery in U.S. Museums 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.


Author: Amy Sodaro
ISBN-10: 1978842643
ISBN-13: 9781978842649
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2024
Pages: 202
Format: Hardcover