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Presenter: Amy Sodaro
While the US has long struggled with how to commemorate and educate about slavery in museums, a small, but significant wave of new US memorial museums have recently opened that focus on slavery and its ongoing violent legacies, including the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Montgomery, Alabama’s Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration, and Greenwood Rising, which commemorates the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Based on her new book Lifting the Shadow: Reshaping Memory, Race and Slavery in US Museums (2025) sociologist and memory studies scholar, Amy Sodaro will discuss the work these museums are doing to challenge historical narratives of slavery and race by placing racial oppression at the center of American history and link historical slavery to contemporary racial injustice.
AGE GROUP: | Adult |
EVENT TYPE: | Virtual Event |
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