{"product_id":"consequential-museum-spaces-representing-african-american-history-and-culture-9798216385240","title":"Consequential Museum Spaces: Representing African American History and Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Bettina Messias Carbonell\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Lexington Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - African American Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Consequential Museum Spaces: Representing African American History and Culture, Bettina Messias Carbonell examines how African American history and culture is--and historically has been--represented in culturally specific and mainstream museums. Carbonell argues that African American museums provide a corrective history that is both argumentative and pragmatic: these museums educate and enlighten, and they seek to effect change. Themes examined here include settlement narratives; key movements and individuals in political, social, and military history; the treatment of slavery includingthe African, transatlantic, and American slave trade and the long history of slavery as an institution in the United States; the status of Africa--the continent and individual countries and regions--as a source of origins and traditions and a destination for reconnection with the past; and activism and human rights. Carbonell considers this museum-based work in the context of relevant historical (written) texts and in the context of contemporary theories involving memory and history, corrective history, intergenerational trauma, human rights, and historical consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46436413964439,"sku":"9798216385240","price":3706.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798216385240.webp?v=1769131726","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/consequential-museum-spaces-representing-african-american-history-and-culture-9798216385240","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}