Memorializing Pearl Harbor: Unfinished Histories and the Work of Remembrance
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Memorializing Pearl Harbor examines the challenge of representing history at the site of the attack that brought America into World War II. Analyzing moments in which history is re-presented-in commemorative events, documentary films, museum design, and educational programming-Geoffrey M. White shows that the memorial to the Pearl Harbor bombing is not a fixed or singular institution. Rather, it has become a site in which many histories are performed, validated, and challenged. In addition to valorizing military service and sacrifice, the memorial has become a place where Japanese veterans have come to seek recognition and reconciliation, where Japanese Americans have sought to correct narratives of racial mistrust, and where Native Hawaiians have challenged their ongoing erasure from their own land. Drawing on extended ethnographic fieldwork, White maps these struggles onto larger controversies about public history, museum practices, and national memory.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822361027
ISBN13:9780822361022
Release Date:April 2016
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:352 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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