{"id":290,"date":"2017-01-23T06:56:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T06:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w17\/?p=290"},"modified":"2017-01-23T18:53:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T18:53:09","slug":"suggested-readings-on-museums-and-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w17\/2017\/01\/23\/suggested-readings-on-museums-and-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Suggested Readings on Museums and Race"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Poster for an Anti-Columbus Day Tour of the American Museum of Natural History<\/a>, conducted Oct. 10, 2016, by the group Decolonize This Place.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I asked friends to recommend\u00a0short, affecting pieces on encounters with racism at museums. They had some amazing suggestions. I couldn’t fit them all on the syllabus, but I thought you might want to read some of them on your own.<\/p>\n

#museumsrespondtoferguson<\/a>\u00a0(a regular\u00a0Twitter-based discussion; here’s an interview with the creators<\/a>)<\/p>\n

@AfAmHistFail<\/a> and interview<\/a><\/p>\n

People of Color in European Art History<\/a><\/p>\n

Fred Wilson, “Mining the Museum”<\/a><\/p>\n

Arun Venugopal, “Museums as White Spaces”<\/a><\/p>\n

American Public Media, Historically Black Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n

Natasha Trethewey, “Pilgrimage”<\/a><\/p>\n

Francie Diep, “The Passing of the Indians Behind Glass”<\/a><\/p>\n

Samuel J. Redman, Bone Rooms<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Resources on repatriation from the National Museum of the American Indian<\/a><\/p>\n

Kim Drew’s work<\/a><\/p>\n

Adrianne Russell’s work and Twitter feed<\/a><\/p>\n

I also asked for people’s favorite works that demonstrate how it’s entirely possible to perpetrate\u00a0racism without actively trying to hurt\u00a0anyone. Two books that came up a lot are George Lipsitz’s\u00a0The Possessive Investment in Whiteness<\/a><\/em> and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s\u00a0Racism without Racists<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

It’s really common for people of color to experience lots of “small” acts of racism everyday, in many kinds of interactions. (Sometimes people call these “microaggressions<\/a>.”) When someone points out one or two of these incidents, it can sometimes be hard for other people to see why they’re such a big deal. But when these “small” things\u00a0happen all day, every day, the sum total of the experience (combined with knowledge of history) can hurt people very, very deeply. I’m not sure I totally got how this happens until I read Claudia Rankine’s\u00a0Citizen<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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