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Title Living history : encountering the memory and the history of the heirs of slavery / editor, Ana Lucia Araujo.

Publication Info. Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2009.

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Description 290 pages ; 22 cm
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Note Title from e-book title screen (viewed Feb. 2, 2010).
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. UK : MyiLibrary, 2010 Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to MIL affiliated libraries.
Summary This book focusses on the several forms of reconstructing the slave past in the present. The recent emergence of the memory of slavery allows those who are or who claim to be descendents of slaves to legitimize their demand for recognition and for reparations for past wrongs. Some reparation claims encompass financial compensation, but very often they express the need for memorialization through public commemoration, museums, and monuments. In some contexts, presentification of the slave past ...
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Subject Slavery.
Slavery.
Reparations for historical injustices.
Reparations for historical injustices.
Apologizing -- Political aspects.
Apologizing.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Araujo, Ana Lucia.
MyiLibrary.
Other Form: Print version: Araujo, Ana Lucia. Living History : Encountering the Memory of the Heirs of Slavery. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2009 9781443809986
ISBN 9781443810685 electronic book
1443810681 electronic book
9781443809986 Cloth
1443809985 Cloth