Legacies of prejudice: racism, co-production and radical trust in the museum
Legacies of prejudice: racism, co-production and radical trust in the museum
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DOI：
10.1080/09647770903529061
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发表时间：
2010-01-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Alberti, Samuel
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作者：
Lynch, Bernadette;Alberti, Samuel
博物馆在物质和文化等级的建设中一直是共谋的，从启蒙运动到20世纪的大部分时间，这些等级都是种族主义思想的基础，这与许多人现在寻求履行的包容性角色形成了鲜明对比。在英国曼彻斯特博物馆的《揭示历史：种族神话(2007-2009)》一书中，来自博物馆内外的一个团队试图解决这段令人不快的历史。他们面临挑战，并提出了许多问题：如何诚实而敏感地呈现这些材料？其他声音能不能在不损害博物馆信誉的情况下被纳入？如何用一本以帝国战利品为基础的收藏来进行后殖民论证？最后，博物馆如何摆脱偏见的遗产？尽管用意良好，但博物馆工作人员实现该项目的行动--包括作者--展示了意想不到的制度性种族主义的痕迹。借鉴种族和国际发展研究，本文得出结论，如果英国博物馆真的在这样的项目上与其他团体合作，成为民主交流的空间，并正视他们遗留下来的偏见，那么可能需要更激进的信任。
Museums have been complicit in the construction of physical and cultural hierarchies that underpinned racist thought from the Enlightenment until well into the twentieth century, in marked contrast to the inclusionary role that many now seek to fulfil. In Revealing Histories: Myths about Race (2007-2009) at the Manchester Museum, UK, a team from within and beyond the museum tried to address this uncomfortable history. They faced challenges and raised many questions: how to present such material honestly but sensitively? Could other voices be included without jeopardising the credibility of the museum? How can post-colonial arguments be made with a collection based on the spoils of empire? And, finally, how are museums to escape the legacies of prejudice? Although well intentioned, the actions of museum staff in realising the project - the authors included - exhibited unanticipated vestiges of institutional racism. Drawing on race and international development studies, this paper concludes that a more radical trust may be called for if UK museums are genuinely to collaborate with other groups on projects like this; to become spaces for democratic exchange, and to face up to their legacies of prejudice.