Negro Building (eBook)

Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums

Mabel O. Wilson (Autor)

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2023
464 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-95249-2 (ISBN)

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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 who conceived the curatorial content: Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, A. Philip Randolph, Horace Cayton, and Margaret Burroughs. Originally published in 2012, 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, which would eventually become home for the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opened in 2016.


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

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

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African American • African American History • african americans in worlds fair • African American Studies • american negro • Black Americans • Black History • Black intellectuals • Black Museum • Black public sphere • blacks in museums • blacks in worlds fair • Black Studies • Civil Rights • dehumanization • Discrimination • discrimination at worlds fair • exhibiting the american negro • Exhibitions • Identity • Intellectuals • Memory • Museums • museums and memory • narrative • negro • negro studies • Objectification • post slavery in america • Public History • Public sphere • Race • race and exhibitions • race and museums • race in museums • reclaim • Representation • representations of african americans in museums • sexhibiting • Slavery • Spectacle • Studies • world fairs • worlds fair
• ISBN-10: 0-520-95249-9 / 0520952499
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-95249-2 / 9780520952492