Description: Behold the sleazy logic of museums: plunder dressed up as charity, conservation, and care. The idealized Western museum, as typified by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, and the Museum of Natural History, has remained much the same for over a century: a uniquely rarified public space of cool stone, providing an experience of leisure and education for the general public while carefully tending fragile artifacts from distant lands. As questions about representation and ethics have increasingly arisen, these institutions have proclaimed their interest in diversity and responsible conservation, asserting both their adaptability and their immovably essential role in a flourishing and culturally rich society. With Decolonize Museums, Shimrit Lee punctures this fantasy, tracing the essentially colonial origins of the concept of the museum. White Europeans’ atrocities were reimagined through narratives of benign curiosity and abundant respect for the occupied or annihilated culture, and these racist narratives, Lee argues, remain integral to the authority exercised by museums today. Citing pop culture references from Indiana Jones to Black Panther, and highlighting crucial activist campaigns and legal action to redress the harms perpetrated by museums and their proxies, Decolonize Museums argues that we must face a dismantling of these seemingly eternal edifices, and consider what, if anything, might take their place.
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EAN: 9781682193150
UPC: 9781682193150
ISBN: 9781682193150
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Book Title: Decolonize Museums
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Or Books, LLC
Topic: Discrimination & Race Relations, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2022
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, Social Science
Item Weight: 10.2 Oz
Author: Shimrit Lee
Item Length: 7 in
Book Series: Decolonize That! Ser.
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback