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In the recent cultural heritage boom, community-based and national
identity projects are intertwined with interest in cultural tourism
and sites of the memory of enslavement. Questions of historical
guilt and present responsibility have become a source of social
conflict, particularly in multicultural societies with an enslaving
past. This became apparent in the context of the Black Lives Matter
movement in 2020, when statues of enslavers and colonizers were
toppled, controversial debates about streets and places named after
them re-ignited, and the European Union apologized for slavery
after the racist murder of George Floyd. Related debates focus on
museums, on artworks acquired unjustly in societies under colonial
rule, the question of whether and how museums should narrate the
hidden past of enslavement and colonialism, including their own
colonial origins with respect to narratives about presumed European
supremacy, and the need to establish new monuments for the
enslaved, their resistance, and abolitionists of African descent.
In this volume, we address this dissonant cultural heritage in
Europe, with a strong focus on the tangible remains of enslavement
in the Atlantic space in the continent. This may concern, for
instance, the residences of royal, noble, and bourgeois enslavers;
charitable and cultural institutions, universities, banks, and
insurance companies, financed by the traders and owners of enslaved
Africans; merchants who dealt in sugar, coffee, and cotton; and the
owners of factories who profited from exports to the African and
Caribbean markets related to Atlantic slavery.
"Transatlantic Caribbean" widens the scope of research on the
Caribbean by focusing on its transatlantic interrelations with
North America, Latin America, Europe and Africa and by
investigating long-term exchanges of people, practices and ideas.
Based on innovative approaches and rich empirical research from
anthropology, history and literary studies the contributions
discuss border crossings, south-south relations and diasporas in
the areas of popular culture, religion, historical memory as well
as national and transnational social and political movements. These
perspectives enrich the theoretical debates on transatlantic
dialogues and the Black Atlantic and emphasize the Caribbean's
central place in the world.
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