Critical race museology: a case study of educational voices and leaders at the DuSable Museum of African American History
West, Lori Michele
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Title
Critical race museology: a case study of educational voices and leaders at the DuSable Museum of African American History
Author(s)
West, Lori Michele
Issue Date
2021-07-16
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Span, Christopher M.
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Span, Christopher M.
Committee Member(s)
Pak, Yoon K.
Anderson, James D.
Bresler, Liora
Department of Study
Educ Policy, Orgzn & Leadrshp
Discipline
Educational Policy Studies
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Critical Race Museology
African American Museums
DuSable Museum of African American History
Oral History
Black Museums Movement
Museum Education
Abstract
This research contributes new scholarship on the teaching and preservation of African American history, public history, and broader transnational diasporic histories. As a case study, I contextualize the educational experiences of museum founders, educators, leaders, and historians who impacted the growth and development of African American museums from the 1960s to the early twenty-first century. More specifically, I explore life histories that influenced the “birth and building” of the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago, Illinois. Often forgotten, overlooked, or simply unknown, these narratives reveal living histories and hidden legacies. Through a phenomenological lens, I examine critical historical archives and transitions in oral history research. I also introduce Critical Race Museology (CRM) as an intersectional framework and contextualize what I term oral history shifters and torch-sharing. Undergirding this study are larger questions of how African American history is taught and interpreted in public institutions and historic sites serving national and transnational audiences. Adopting a critical race framework, this scholarship exemplifies how museums and historic sites are poised to tell, re-tell, and interpret African American history in the twenty-first century and beyond.
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