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

Contributor(s): Sodaro, Amy (Author)

ISBN: 9781978842649

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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Pub Date: November 15, 2024

Dewey: 305.800973

LCCN: 2024010906

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.79" H x 9.13" L x 6.06" W ( 0.88 lbs) 202 pages

Series: Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights

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Description: 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.

Review Quotes:

"A needed and welcome new addition to the field of African American public history and museum studies."

-- "American Historical Review"

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