1st Edition

Public Art, Memorials and Atlantic Slavery

Edited By Celeste-Marie Bernier, Judie Newman Copyright 2009
    178 Pages
    by Routledge

    178 Pages
    by Routledge

    In this collection distinguished American and European scholars, curators and artists discuss major issues concerning the representation and commemoration of slavery, as brought into sharp focus by the 2007 bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade. Writers consider nineteenth and twentieth century American and European images of African Americans, art installations, photography, literature, sculpture, exhibitions, performances, painting, film and material culture. This is essential reading for historians, cultural critics, art-historians, educationalists and museologists, in America as in Europe, and an important contribution to the understanding of the African diaspora, race, American and British history, heritage tourism, and transatlantic relations. Contributions include previously unpublished interview material with artists and practitioners, and a comprehensive review of the commemorative exhibitions of 2007. Illustrations include images from Louisiana, Maryland, and Virginia, many previously unpublished, in black and white, which challenge previous understandings of the aesthetics of slave representation.

    This book was published as a special issue of Slavery and Abolition.

    1. Introduction  Zsolt Enyedi and Kevin Deegan-Krause

    2. The education cleavage – the Danish case study in comparative European perspective  Rune Stubager

    3. Explaining the establishment of a new political force: The social structural roots of Green politics  Martin Dolezal

    4. The regional cleavage in Western Europe: The role of social structure, value orientations and territorial identities for explaining the impact of region on party choice  Oddbjorn Knutsen

    5. Cleavage and ideological voting across generations: effects of religion, class and left-right on the vote in different age cohorts  Wouter van der Brug

    6. Freezing? The Impact of Structural vs. Value Cleavages on the Stabilization of Party Systems  Gabor Toka and Tanja Gosselin

    7. Reshaping of Class Alliances: How Welfare Regimes and Responses to Deindustrialization Reshape the Social Base of Party Voting in Advanced Industrial Economies  Andrija Henjak

    8. New Cultural Divides, Denationalization, and the Two-Dimensional Political Space in Western Europe  Simon Bornschier

    9. Dimensionality in Western Europe: Concepts and Empirical Findings  Heather Stoll

    10. The "Grand Debate" on dealignment and realignment  Geoffrey EvansMark FranklinHerbert Kitschelt and Hanspeter Kriesi

    11. Conclusion  Kevin Deegan-Krause and Zsolt Enyedi

    Biography

    Celeste-Marie Bernier is a Lecturer in the School of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham, and the author of African American Visual Arts, University of North Carolina Press and Edinburgh University Press, 2008.  She is currently writing a monograph for Routledge on Slave Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination.

    Judie Newman is Professor of American Studies at the University of Nottingham. Her most recent book is Fictions of America: Narratives of Global Empire, Routledge, 2007.