Amy Sodaro
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Lifting the Shadow
Reshaping Memory, Race, and Slavery in U.S. Museums
By Amy Sodaro
Rutgers University Press
Lifting the Shadow examines how the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Montgomery’s Legacy Museum and Tulsa’s Greenwood Rising are challenging the national narrative on slavery and race by placing racial oppression at the center of American history and linking historical slavery to contemporary racial injustice.
Exhibiting Atrocity
Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence
By Amy Sodaro
Rutgers University Press
Exhibiting Atrocity documents the emergence of the memorial museum as a new cultural form of commemoration. Amy Sodaro uses in-depth case studies of five exemplary memorial museums around the world to analyze their use in efforts to come to terms with past political violence and to promote democracy and human rights.
- Copyright year: 2018
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