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Remembering Enslavement explores plantation museums as sites for
contesting and reforming public interpretations of slavery in the
American South. Emerging out of a three-year National Science
Foundation grant (2014-17), the book turns a critical eye toward
the growing inclusion of the formerly enslaved within these
museums, specifically examining advances but also continuing
inequalities in how they narrate and memorialize the formerly
enslaved. Using assemblage theory as a framework, Remembering
Enslavement offers an innovative approach for studying heritage
sites, retelling and remapping the ways that slavery and the
enslaved are included in southern plantation museums. It examines
multiple plantation sites across geographic areas, considering the
experiences of a diversity of actors: tourists, museum
managers/owners, and tour guides/interpreters. This approach allows
for an understanding of regional variations among plantation
museums, narratives, and performances, as well as more in-depth
study of the plantation tour experience and public interpretations.
The authors conclude the book with a set of questions designed to
help professionals reassemble plantation museum narratives and
landscapes to more justly position the formerly enslaved at their
center.
Remembering Enslavement explores plantation museums as sites for
contesting and reforming public interpretations of slavery in the
American South. Emerging out of a three-year National Science
Foundation grant (2014-17), the book turns a critical eye toward
the growing inclusion of the formerly enslaved within these
museums, specifically examining advances but also continuing
inequalities in how they narrate and memorialize the formerly
enslaved. Using assemblage theory as a framework, Remembering
Enslavement offers an innovative approach for studying heritage
sites, retelling and remapping the ways that slavery and the
enslaved are included in southern plantation museums. It examines
multiple plantation sites across geographic areas, considering the
experiences of a diversity of actors: tourists, museum
managers/owners, and tour guides/interpreters. This approach allows
for an understanding of regional variations among plantation
museums, narratives, and performances, as well as more in-depth
study of the plantation tour experience and public interpretations.
The authors conclude the book with a set of questions designed to
help professionals reassemble plantation museum narratives and
landscapes to more justly position the formerly enslaved at their
center.
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