Doing public humanities

Format:: Book
Language:: English
Imprint:: New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 and ©2021
Subject:: Humanities - Study and teaching - United States
Humanities - Methodology
Humanities - Social aspects - United States
Digital humanities
Public history - Study and teaching - United States
Public art - Study and teaching - United States
Libraries and community - United States
Museums and community - United States
Group identity
Collective memory
Contributor:: Smulyan, Susan, editor
ISBN:: 9780367500177, 0367500175, 9780367524517, and 0367524511
Description:: xii, 178 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Bibliographic Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:: Introduction / Susan Smulyan -- The rise of the public humanists / Robyn Schroeder -- What can public art teach public humanities? / Susan Smulyan -- Teaching digital public humanities with the public library: the Lou Costa Collection, the Updike Collection, and the AS220 Collection at the Providence Public Library / Jim McGrath -- Preservation's expanded field: the Hacking Heritage Unconference and the Fogarty Funeral / Marisa Angell Brown -- Hyperlocal history: linking people to the past through class, race, and memory / Ron M. Potvin and Marjory Gomez O'Toole -- Racial forgetting and present history: remembering violence in monuments, museums, and markers / Monica Muñoz Martinez -- What readers matter? Challenging the disappearance of the branch library in Boston's Chinese neighborhood / Diane O'Donoghue -- The Rosa Parks House: doing public art and public history in the age of neoliberalism / Maiyah Gamble-Rivers, Shana Weinberg, and Anthony Bogues -- Against invisibility: Asian American family photography and the public humanities / Robert G. Lee -- Afterword: The "doing" of doing public humanities / Matthew Frye Jacobson
Summary:: "Doing Public Humanities explores the cultural landscape from disruptive events to websites, from tours to exhibits, from after school arts programs to archives, giving readers a wide-ranging look at the interdisciplinary practice of public humanities. Combining a practitioner's focus on case studies with the scholar's more abstract and theoretical approach, this collection of essays is useful for both teaching and appreciating public humanities. The contributors are committed to presenting a public humanities practice that encourages social justice and explores the intersectionalities of race, class, gender, and sexualities. Centering on the experiences of students with many of the case studies focused on course projects, the content will enable them to relate to and better understand this new field of study. The text is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate classes in public history, historic preservation, history of art, engaged sociology, and public archaeology and anthropology, as well as public humanities"-- Provided by publisher
Collection:: BGC Monograph Stacks
Call Number:: AZ183.U5 D65 2021
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