The Politics of Heritage : The Legacies of Race.

By: Littler, JoContributor(s): Naidoo, RoshiMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Comedia SerPublisher: London : Routledge, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (272 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780203339978Subject(s): Great Britain - Race relationsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Politics of Heritage : The Legacies of RaceDDC classification: 305.800941 LOC classification: DA125.A1 -- P647 2005ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Series Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I BRITISH HERITAGE AS INTERNATIONAL HERITAGE -- 1 WHOSE HERITAGE? UN-SETTLING 'THE HERITAGE', RE-IMAGINING THE POST-NATION -- 2 NEVER MIND THE BUZZWORDS -- 3 COMMEMORATING THE HOLOCAUST -- 4 MUSEUMS, COMMUNITIES AND THE POLITICS OF HERITAGE IN NORTHERN IRELAND -- 5 GHOSTS -- 6 MAKING PLACE, RESISTING DISPLACEMENT -- 7 REINVENTING THE NATION -- 8 TAKING ROOT IN BRITAIN -- 9 WHAT A DIFFERENCE A BAY MAKES -- 10 HISTORY TEACHING AND HERITAGE EDUCATION -- 11 PICTURE THIS -- 12 A COMMUNITY OF COMMUNITIES -- 13 INHERITING DIVERSITY -- 14 KEEP THE FLAGS FLYING -- AFTERWORD -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Summary: While 'social inclusion' and 'cultural diversity' circulate frenetically as buzzwords, are we really ready to accept that ideas about 'race' and 'ethnicity', rather than being a peripheral concern, are at the core of how a nation's heritage is represented and imagined? This book interrogates just whose past gets to count as part of 'British heritage'. Bringing together a wide range of contributors, including academics, practitioners, policy makers and curators, it examines how many different of types of heritage - from football to stately homes, experience attractions to education - deal with the complex legacies of the idea of 'race'. Whether exploring the fallout of colonialism, the domination of 'England' over the other three nations, holocaust memorials, or the way British heritage is negotiated overseas, a recurring theme of this book is the need to accept that Britain has always been a place of shifting ethnicities, shaped by waves of migration, diaspora and globalization. Analyzing both theory and practice, this book is concerned with understanding the processes through which changes to heritage happens, and with exploring problems and possibilities for the future.
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Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Series Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I BRITISH HERITAGE AS INTERNATIONAL HERITAGE -- 1 WHOSE HERITAGE? UN-SETTLING 'THE HERITAGE', RE-IMAGINING THE POST-NATION -- 2 NEVER MIND THE BUZZWORDS -- 3 COMMEMORATING THE HOLOCAUST -- 4 MUSEUMS, COMMUNITIES AND THE POLITICS OF HERITAGE IN NORTHERN IRELAND -- 5 GHOSTS -- 6 MAKING PLACE, RESISTING DISPLACEMENT -- 7 REINVENTING THE NATION -- 8 TAKING ROOT IN BRITAIN -- 9 WHAT A DIFFERENCE A BAY MAKES -- 10 HISTORY TEACHING AND HERITAGE EDUCATION -- 11 PICTURE THIS -- 12 A COMMUNITY OF COMMUNITIES -- 13 INHERITING DIVERSITY -- 14 KEEP THE FLAGS FLYING -- AFTERWORD -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

While 'social inclusion' and 'cultural diversity' circulate frenetically as buzzwords, are we really ready to accept that ideas about 'race' and 'ethnicity', rather than being a peripheral concern, are at the core of how a nation's heritage is represented and imagined? This book interrogates just whose past gets to count as part of 'British heritage'. Bringing together a wide range of contributors, including academics, practitioners, policy makers and curators, it examines how many different of types of heritage - from football to stately homes, experience attractions to education - deal with the complex legacies of the idea of 'race'. Whether exploring the fallout of colonialism, the domination of 'England' over the other three nations, holocaust memorials, or the way British heritage is negotiated overseas, a recurring theme of this book is the need to accept that Britain has always been a place of shifting ethnicities, shaped by waves of migration, diaspora and globalization. Analyzing both theory and practice, this book is concerned with understanding the processes through which changes to heritage happens, and with exploring problems and possibilities for the future.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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