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Author Message, Kylie, author.

Title Museums and racism / Kylie Message
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Museums in Focus Ser
Museums in Focus Ser
Contents It's a summer of sequels. The culture wars are back. So is the civil rights movement -- Museums -- Multiculturalism -- Racism -- I feel like I belong when I am made to feel welcome
Summary "Racism is a hot topic in museums today, as well as an urgent social issue. Focused on the broad field of multicultural policy, Museums and Racism examines how the Immigration Museum in Melbourne, Australia, has responded to political culture and public debate around racism. Analysis focuses on the conceptualization of the Immigration Museum in the mid-1990s, and on the most recent permanent exhibition to be opened there in 20112012, which coincided with the publication of a new multicultural policy for Australia. The opening of The National Museum of Australia in Canberra in the intervening period is also examined in some detail, as a comparison providing broader national social and political context. Message argues that each of the three episodes demonstrates the close relationship between museum and exhibition development on the one hand, and policy, politics, and public opinion on the other. She widens her argument with brief discussion of comparative examples from the United States and elsewhere. Museums and Racism is key reading for students and scholars of Museum Studies and Cultural Studies, as well as museum practitioners, and policy-makers in the area of multiculturalism."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Immigration Museum.
Racism in museum exhibits -- Case studies
Museums -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- History
Museums -- Social aspects -- Australia -- History
Exhibitions -- Social aspects -- Australia -- History
Social Science / Archaeology.
Emigration and immigration
Museums
Museums -- Social aspects
Racism in museum exhibits
SUBJECT Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- Exhibitions
Subject Australia
Victoria -- Melbourne
Genre/Form Electronic books
Case studies
Exhibition catalogs
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018024529
ISBN 9781315293899
1315293897
9781315293882
1315293889
9781315293875
1315293870