'The rats are still with us': Constructing Everyday Life at the Anacostia Museum in Washington, DC
How did the black cultural politics of the 1960s prompt the Smithsonian to break with tradition and establish the first experimental black community-based museum in Washington DC? Using a historical perspective, I examine how political-economic and institutional forces combine with more ideological...
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Language: | English |
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University of Leicester
2017-06-01
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Series: | Museum & Society |
Online Access: | https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/article/view/632 |