Representations of Slavery Race and Ideology in Southern Plantation Museums

Name: Representations of Slavery Race and Ideology in Southern Plantation Museums
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ISBN: 9781588340962

ISBN-10: 1588340961

ISBN-13: 9781588340962

Edition: 2002

Authors: Jennifer L. Eichstedt, Stephen Small

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Investigating over 100 public and private plantation museums in Virginia, Georgia and Louisiana, this study argues that the experience and legacy of slavery remains inadequately represented and even trivialised. Museum policies are set against the larger discourse surrounding race & racism.

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Publication date: 9/17/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.97" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Stephen Small is Associate Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.



Acknowledgments



Racialized Ideologies and Plantation Museums



History and Overview



Different States and Themes



Overview of Plantation Sites and Tourism



Managing Slavery: Representational Strategies



Symbolic Annihilation and the Erasure of Slavery



Trivializing and Deflecting the Experience of Enslavement



Segregated Knowledge



Toward Relative Incorporation: Complicating the Master Narrative



Alternatives and Conclusions



Counternarratives of Black-Run and Black-Organized Sites



Conclusions



Categories of Plantation Museum Sites


References


Index