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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816876903321

Titolo

The politics of heritage : the legacies of 'race' / / edited by Jo Littler and Roshi Naidoo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-134-35458-4

1-134-35459-2

9786610241286

1-280-24128-4

0-203-33997-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Collana

Comedia

Altri autori (Persone)

LittlerJo <1972->

NaidooRoshi <1965->

Disciplina

305.8/00941

Soggetti

Great Britain Race relations

Great Britain Ethnic relations

Great Britain Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-255) and index.

Nota di contenuto

; Introduction : British heritage and the legacies of 'race' / Jo Littler -- Whose heritage? : un-settling 'the heritage', re-imagining the post-nation / Stuart Hall -- Never mind the buzzwords : 'race', heritage and the liberal agenda / Roshi Naidoo -- Commemorating the Holocaust : reconfiguring national identity in the twenty-first century / Sharon McDonald -- Museums, communities and the politics of heritage in Northern Ireland / Elizabeth Crooke -- Ghosts : heritage and the shape of things to come / Jonathan Rutherford -- Making place, resisting desplacement : conflicting national and local identities in Scotland / Sian Jones -- Reinventing the nation : British heritage and the bicultural settlement in New Zealand / Lynda Dyson -- Taking root in Britain : the process of shaping heritage / Naseem Khan -- What a difference a bay makes : cinema and Welsh heritage / Gill Branston -- History teaching and heritage education : two sides of the same coin, or different currencies? / John Hamer -- Picture this : the 'Black' curator / Carol Tulloch -- A community of communities / Jim McGuigan -- Inheriting



diversity : archiving the past / S.I. Martin -- Keep the flags flying : World Cup 2002, football and the remaking of Englishness / Mark Perryman -- ; Afterword: 'Strolling spectators' and 'practical Londoners' : remembering the imperial past / Bill Schwarz.

Sommario/riassunto

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 wi