Shadows Of The Slave Past (Routledge Studies In Cultural History)

How do our contemporary societies remember, reenact, conceal, and forget unpleasant aspects of their national histories encompassing enslavement, racism, and segregation of individuals and groups? How isthe slave trade past conveyed and displayed in the public space? Over the last twenty years, the Atlantic slave past has received increased attention in the Americas, Europe, and Africa. The rise of the public memory of slavery resulted from the political struggle of social actors fighting for social justice or seeking to occupy the public ...

• | Author: Ana Lucia Araujo
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jun 30, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 268 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0415853923
• | ISBN-13: 9780415853927