Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. About the Series vii
4. 1 Introduction Memory, Race, and the Nation in Public Spaces 1
5. First Things First
6. Two Peoples, One Museum: Biculturalism and Visitor “ Experience” at Te Papa–“Our Place,” New Zealand’s New National Museum 31
7. Contesting Time, Place, and Nation in the First Peoples’ Hall of the Canadian Museum of Civilization 49
8. “Unfinished Business”: Public History in a Postcolonial Nation 71
9. Colonial Legacies and Winners’ Tales
10. Exhibiting Asia in Britain: Commerce, Consumption, and Globalization 101
11. The Alamo: Myth, Public History, and the Politics of Inclusion 122
12. Ellis Island Redux: The Imperial Turn and the Race of Ethnicity 136
13. State Stories
14. A Cultural Conundrum? Old Monuments and New Regimes: The Voortrekker Monument as Symbol of Afrikaner Power in a Postapartheid South Africa 157
15. Narratives of Power, the Power of Narratives: The Failing Foundational Narrative of the Ecuadorian Nation 178
16. Affective Distinctions: Race and Place in Oaxaca 197
17. Under-Stated Stories
18. Marking Remembrance: Nation and Ecology in Two Riverbank Monuments in Kathmandu 229
19. Saving Rio’s “Cradle of Samba”: Outlaw Uprisings, Racial Tourism, and the Progressive State in Brazil 249
20. Afrocuban Religion, Museums, and the Cuban Nation 280
21. Haunting Delgrès 311
22. Bibliography 329
23. Contributors 353
24. Index 357