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- United States--Race relations--History
- Museums and minorities--United States
- Patriotism--United States--History
- Racism--United States--History
- Historic sites--Social aspects--United States
- Memorials--Social aspects--United States
- Monuments--Social aspects--United States
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Title Statement | Blunt instruments: recognizing racist cultural infrastructure in memorials, museums, and patriotic practices / Kristin Ann Hass. |
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Alternative Title(s) | Recognizing racist cultural infrastructure in memorials, museums, and patriotic practices |
Author | Hass, Kristin Ann, 1965- |
Publication | Boston, MA: Beacon Press,[2022]©2022 |
Extent of Item | 247 pages |
ISBN | 9780807006719 (hardcover) |
Other Number | pr06730829 |
Contents | Introduction. White lies matter --Section I. Memorials --Monumental basics --1. The lost cause won --2. The lost cause keeps winning --Section II. Museums --Museum basics --3. White temples emerged --4. White temples reshaped? --Section III. Patriotic practices --Patriotic practices basics --5. Allegiance got pledged --6. Allegiance got paid for --Conclusion. Remaking a made thing. |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-235) and index. |
Summary | "A field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States and how to reimagine a more deeply shared cultural infrastructure for the future"--Monuments, museums, and everyday patriotic practices have made headlines for most of the twenty-first century, yet they are seldom look at together or understood explicitly as tools used by particular people in particular times and places to shape the culture in particular ways. Hass explore the complicated histories of sites of cultural infrastructure: memorials in parks, museums visited by school kids, and routine practices of patriotism. She unearths legacies of white supremacy and traces movements to reevaluate and resist countless sites that have been doing this work, and asks that we look for sites that actually work to tell us who we are, how we came to be, and who belongs in the country. |
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By Topic | Cultural property--United States |
Museums and minorities--United States | |
Patriotism--History--United States | |
Racism--History--United States | |
Historic sites--Social aspects--United States | |
Memorials--Social aspects--United States | |
Monuments--Social aspects--United States | |
By Location | United States--Race relations--History |