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

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...

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Weitere Verfasser: Araujo, Ana Lucia
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2009.
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Zusammenfassung: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 ...
Beschreibung:1 online resource (290 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781443810685
1443810681

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