Negro Building

Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums

Mabel O. Wilson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

462 Seiten

2021
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38307-4 (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.

Mabel O. Wilson is the Nancy and George Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, a Professor in African American and African Diasporic Studies, and the Associate Director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS) at Columbia University.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	19.03.2021
Zusatzinfo	57 b-w photographs
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	635 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-38307-9 / 0520383079
ISBN-13	978-0-520-38307-4 / 9780520383074
Zustand	Neuware