Tracing Slavery
The Politics of Atlantic Memory in the Netherlands
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Word Count
51,000 words, Guess
Page Count
204 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL34770564M
- ISBN-139781800731608
- OCLC Control Number1228006499
- Library of Congress Control Number2021005946
Classifications
- LCCHT1203 .B354 2021
Description
"Looking at the ways in which the memory of slavery affects present-day relations in Amsterdam, this ethnographic account reveals a paradox: while there is growing official attention to the country's slavery past (monuments, festivals, ritual occasions), many interlocutors showed little interest in the topic. Developing the notion of "trace" as a seminal notion to explore this paradox, this book follows the issue of slavery in everyday realities and offers a fine-grained ethnography of how people refer to this past - often in almost unconscious ways - and weave it into their perceptions of present-day issues"--
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