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Other authors / contributors: | Araujo, Ana Lucia.
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ISBN: | 9781443810685 1443810681 9781443809986 1443809985
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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Summary: | This book focusses on the several forms of reconstructing the slave past in the present. The recent emergence of the memory of slavery allows those who are or who claim to be descendents of slaves to legitimize their demand for recognition and for reparations for past wrongs. Some reparation claims encompass financial compensation, but very often they express the need for memorialization through public commemoration, museums, and monuments. In some contexts, presentification of the slave past ...
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Other form: | Print version: Araujo, Ana Lucia. Living History : Encountering the Memory of the Heirs of Slavery. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2009 9781443809986
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