Negro building : Black Americans in the world of fairs and museums / Mabel O. Wilson.

Main entry:

Wilson, Mabel (Mabel O.), author.

Title & Author:

Negro building : Black Americans in the world of fairs and museums / Mabel O. Wilson.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012]
©2012

Description:

xvi, 442 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
"The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-389) and index.
Prologue -- Progress of a Race : The Black Side's Contribution to Atlanta's World's Fair -- Exhibiting the American Negro -- Remembering Emancipation Up North -- Look Back, March Forward -- To Make a Black Museum -- Epilogue.

Summary:

Traces the evolution of black public history from the Civil War to the civil rights movement of the 1960s, giving voice to the figures who conceived the curatorial content--Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, A. Philip Randolph, Horace Cayton, and Margaret Burroughs.
"Focusing on Black Americans' participation in world’s fairs, Emancipation expositions, and early Black grassroots museums, Negro Building traces the evolution of Black public history from the Civil War through the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Mabel O. Wilson gives voice to the figures who conceived the curatorial content: Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, A. Philip Randolph, Horace Cayton, and Margaret Burroughs. Originally published in 2012, the book reveals why the Black cities of Chicago and Detroit became the sites of major Black historical museums rather than the nation's capital, which would eventually become home for the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opened in 2016"--Amazon.com.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780520268425 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520268423 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Weltausstellung
African Americans Exhibitions History.
African Americans Museums History.
Exhibitions Social aspects United States History.
Museums Social aspects United States History.
Memory Social aspects United States History.
Public history United States History.
Enslaved persons Emancipation United States.
African Americans Civil rights History.
Anti-racism United States History.
Noirs américains Expositions Histoire.
Noirs américains Musées Histoire.
Musées Aspect social États-Unis Histoire.
Histoire appliquée États-Unis Histoire.
Noirs américains Droits Histoire.
Antiracisme États-Unis Histoire.
Expositions Aspect social États-Unis Histoire.
Society.
African Americans Civil rights
Anti-racism
Memory Social aspects
Museums Social aspects
Public history
Race relations
Enslaved persons Emancipation
Schwarze
Kulturerbe
Museum
Ausstellung
African Americans History Exhibitions.
Slaves Emancipation United States.
United States Race relations History.
États-Unis Relations raciales Histoire.
United States
Amerika
USA

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308300
Call No.: BIB 253721
Status: Available

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