Cultural Heritage and Slavery: Perspectives from Europe (Dependency and Slavery Studies, 10) by Stephan Conermann

Cultural Heritage and Slavery: Perspectives from Europe (Dependency and Slavery Studies, 10) by Stephan Conermann

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Cultural Heritage and Slavery: Perspectives from Europe (Dependency and Slavery Studies, 10) by Stephan Conermann

Cultural Heritage and Slavery: Perspectives from Europe (Dependency and Slavery Studies, 10) by Stephan Conermann

$115.99
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9783111327785.0
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Questions of historical guilt and present responsibility have become a source of social conflict, particularly in multicultural societies with an enslaving past. In the recent cultural heritage boom, community-based and national identity projects are intertwined with interest in cultural tourism and sites of the memory of enslavement. This became apparent in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, when statues of enslavers and colonizers were toppled, controversial debates about streets and places named after them re-ignited, and the European Union apologized for slavery after the racist murder of George Floyd. Related debates focus on museums, on artworks acquired unjustly in societies under colonial rule, the question of whether and how museums should narrate the hidden past of enslavement and colonialism, including their own colonial origins with respect to narratives about presumed European supremacy, and the need to establish new monuments for the enslaved, their resistance, and abolitionists of African descent.

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