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Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum, Paperback / softback Book

Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum Paperback / softback

Part of the Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany series

Paperback / softback

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Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum examines European museums’ efforts to investigate colonialism as part of an unprocessed past, confront its presence, and urge repair.

A flurry of exhibitions and the overhaul of numerous large museums in the last decade signal that an emergent colonial memory culture is now reaching broader publics.

Exhibitions pose the question of what Europeans owe to those they colonized. Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum shows how museums can help visitors mourn historic violence and identify the contemporary agents, beneficiaries, victims, survivors, and resisters of colonial presence.

At the same time, the book treats the museum as part of the racialized power relations that have long been protested by activists, academics and artists.

This book asks whether museums have made the dream of activists, academics, and artists to build equitable futures more acceptable and more durable--or whether in packaging that dream for general audiences they curtail it.

Confronting colonial violence, this book argues, pushes Europeans to face the histories of racism and urges them to envision antiracism at the global scale.

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