Negro Building

Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums

AvMabel O. Wilson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

Focusing on black Americans' participation in world's fairs, Emancipation expositions, and early black grassroots museums, "Negro Building" traces the evolution of black public history from the Civil War through the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Mabel O. Wilson gives voice to the figures that conceived the curatorial content - Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, A. Philip Randolph, Horace Cayton and Margaret Burroughs. As the 2015 opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., approaches, the book reveals why the black cities of Chicago and Detroit became the sites of major black historical museums rather than the nation's capital - until now.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-05-28
Mått:152 x 229 x 33 mm
Vikt:771 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:464
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520268425

Utforska kategorier

Konsthistoria inom Kultur
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Mabel O. Wilson is Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation where she directs the program for Advanced Architectural Research.

Recensioner i media

"This is a fascinating, sharply analyzed, and well-writ ten account of the evolution of black leaders' efforts to use public forums to define and disseminate African American history and identity on their own terms, as well as to insert African Americans into broader narratives and ideologies of American and/or pan-African history. Of particular note is the value of Wilson's interdisciplinary approach, which brings together methods and insights from fields ranging from art history to architecture, visual culture, and urban studies. By conceptualizing these social spaces as an extension of a black counterpublic sphere, where African Americans could formulate, debate, and articulate ideologies of race and nation that ran counter to white discourse, Wilson helps to place these venues within the broader political context of their time."

Innehållsförteckning

List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Prologue 1. Progress of a Race: The Black Side's Contribution to Atlanta's World's Fair 2. Exhibiting the American Negro 3. Remembering Emancipation Up North 4. Look Back, March Forward 5. To Make a Black Museum Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index