Viv Golding
Learning at the Museum Frontiers: Identity, Race and Power
Burlington:
Ashgate,
2009.
246 pp.; 23 b/w ills.
Cloth
$99.95
(9780754646914)
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November 24, 2010
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Where is the discourse now about race and power in museums? More than twenty years ago, the International Center of the Smithsonian Institution set the terms of the debate when it hosted two conferences on “the presentation and interpretation of diversity in museums.” The resulting publications, Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display, edited by Ivan Karp and Steven Lavine (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991), and Museums and Communities: The Politics of...