African American History Presented in Monuments and Museums from Select Cities in Southern United States

Location

CSU 202

Start Date

10-4-2018 11:05 AM

End Date

10-4-2018 12:05 PM

Student's Major

Educational Studies: K-12 and Secondary Programs

Student's College

Education

Mentor's Name

Angela Cooley

Mentor's Department

History

Mentor's College

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Description

American history is often taught in an incomplete fashion, focusing mainly on the European perspectives. This research focuses on a specific aspect of American history that is often neglected or distorted in the canon representation of historic events: the African American perspective. This project aimed to identify which African American figures are memorialized in monuments and museums and what artistic choices are made to represent them. 3 scholarship texts on racial relations, reconciliation and memorializing history, and artistic choices in monuments were studied before traveling to select cities throughout the Southern United states to view African American historic sites, monuments, and museums. Archival studies of each site were conducted after visiting each site. Significant findings include the non-human representations (such as animal or godlike comparisons) of African Americans. These representations can lead to inaccurate ideas and perspectives of African American persons, both in history and the modern day.

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African American History Presented in Monuments and Museums from Select Cities in Southern United States

CSU 202

American history is often taught in an incomplete fashion, focusing mainly on the European perspectives. This research focuses on a specific aspect of American history that is often neglected or distorted in the canon representation of historic events: the African American perspective. This project aimed to identify which African American figures are memorialized in monuments and museums and what artistic choices are made to represent them. 3 scholarship texts on racial relations, reconciliation and memorializing history, and artistic choices in monuments were studied before traveling to select cities throughout the Southern United states to view African American historic sites, monuments, and museums. Archival studies of each site were conducted after visiting each site. Significant findings include the non-human representations (such as animal or godlike comparisons) of African Americans. These representations can lead to inaccurate ideas and perspectives of African American persons, both in history and the modern day.

Recommended Citation

Baranczyk, Sara. "African American History Presented in Monuments and Museums from Select Cities in Southern United States." Undergraduate Research Symposium, Mankato, MN, April 10, 2018.
https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/urs/2018/oral-session-07/2