Living history : encountering the memory and the history of the heirs of slavery /

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Imprint:Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2009.
Description:1 online resource (290 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11206907
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Other authors / contributors:Araujo, Ana Lucia.
ISBN:9781443810685
1443810681
9781443809986
1443809985
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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 ...
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