Desegregating the Past: The Public Life of Memory in the United States and South Africa
ISBN: 9780231542517
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Sociology ; Art & Art History ; History;

Robyn Autry recounts the public and private battles fought over the creation and content of history museums. Despite vast differences in the development of South African and U.S. society, Autry finds a common set of ideological, political, economic, and institutional dilemmas arising out of the selective reconstruction of the past.

Robyn Autry is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Wesleyan University. Her work has been published in Theory, Culture, and Society , Theory & Society , Contexts , and Museum & Society .

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