Museums and Social Activism is the first study to bring together historical accounts of the African American and later American Indian civil rights-related social and reform movements that took place on the Smithsonian Mall through the 1960s and 1970s in Washington DC with the significant but unknown story about museological transformation and curatorial activism that occurred in the Division of Political and Reform History at the National Museum of American History at this time.
Museums and Social Activism is the first study to bring together historical accounts of the African American and later American Indian civil rights-related social and reform movements that took place on the Smithsonian Mall through the 1960s and 1970s in Washington DC with the significant but unknown story about museological transformation and curatorial activism that occurred in the Division of Political and Reform History at the National Museum of American History at this time.
Kylie Message is Associate Professor and Head of the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University. Her research explores the role that museums play as sites of cultural and political exchange. Her current projects investigate the relationship between museums, citizenship and political reform movements in different national contexts. She is author of New Museums and the Making of Culture (2006) and co-editor of volumes that include Compelling Cultures: Representing Cultural Diversity and Cohesion in Multicultural Australia (2009) and Museum Theory: An Expanded Field (forthcoming). She is chief co-editor for the journal Museum Worlds (Advances in Research), managing editor for Museum and Society, and exhibition reviews editor for Australian Historical Studies.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface I ntroduction: Headline News 1. We the People 2. Talk of Protest and the Past 3. Contemporary Cause-based Collecting 4. Activism and the Tribal Museum Movement 5. Cultural Collisions 6. A New Way of Doing Politics 7. Beacons of Change Conclusion: Museums and the Political World Bibliography
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface I ntroduction: Headline News 1. We the People 2. Talk of Protest and the Past 3. Contemporary Cause-based Collecting 4. Activism and the Tribal Museum Movement 5. Cultural Collisions 6. A New Way of Doing Politics 7. Beacons of Change Conclusion: Museums and the Political World Bibliography
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