Displaying and celebrating the "other": A study of the mission, scope, and roles of ethnic museums in Los Angeles

Public Historian

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 49-71

  Loukaitou Sideris, Anastasia ^a   Grodach, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 20844452432     PISSN: 02723433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/tph.2004.26.4.49     Document Type: Review

References (41)

1. Elizabeth Strom, "Converting Pork into Porcelain: Cultural Institutions and Downtown Development," Urban Affairs Review 38, no. 1 (2002): 3-21.
2. Mark Rectanus, Culture Incorporated: Museums, Artists, and Corporate Sponsorship (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002);
3. Chin-Tao Wu, Privatizing Culture: Corporate Art Intervention since the 1980's (London and New York: Verso, 2002).
4. Gary Nash, Charlotte Crabtree, and Ross Dunn, History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997);
5. Edward Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt, eds., History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1996).
6. Jan Linn, "Globalization and the Revalorization of Ethnic Places in Immigration Gateway Cities," Urban Affairs Review 34, no. 2 (1998): 313-340;
7. Sharon Zukin, The Cultures of Cities (Cambridge, Mass: Blackwell Publishers, 1995).
8. John Urry, "How Societies Remember the Past," in Theorizing Museums, ed. Sharon Macdonald and Gordon Fyfe (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996), 46.
9. Anita Herle, "Torres Strait Islanders: Stories from an Exhibition," Ethnos 65, no. 2 (2000): 253-74;
10. Henrietta Riegel, "Into the Heart of Irony: Ethnographic Exhibitions and the Politics of Difference," in Theorizing Museums;
11. Susan Vogel, "Always True to the Object, in Our Fashion," in Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display, ed. Ivan Karp and Steven Lavine (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991), 191-204.
12. Sharon Macdonald, "Theorizing Museums: An Introduction," in Theorizing Museums, ed. Sharon Macdonald and Gordon Fyfe (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996), 1-18.
13. James Clifford, "Museums as Contact Zones," in Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1997), 188-219;
14. Edmund Barry Gaither. "'Hey That's Mine': Thoughts on Pluralism and American Museums," in Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture, ed. Ivan Karp, Christine Kreamer, and Steven Lavine (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992), 56-64;
15. Moira Simpson, Making Representations: Museums in the Post-Colonial Era (London: Routledge, 1996).
16. Michael Ames, Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes: The Anthropology of Museums (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1991);
17. Tony Bennett. The Birth of the Museum (London: Routledge, 1995);
18. Steven Lavine and Ivan Karp, "Introduction: Museums and Multiculturalism," in Exhibiting Cultures, 1-9.
19. On museums and national heritage, see Carol Duncan, "Art Museums and the Ritual of Citizenship," in Exhibiting Cultures; 88-103.
20. On the categorization of cultural differences, see Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998).
21. Nelia Dias, "The Visibility of Difference: Nineteenth-Century French Anthropological Collections," in The Politics of Display: Museums, Science, Culture, ed. Sharon Macdonald (London: Routledge, 1998), 36-52;
22. Flora Kaplan ed., Museums and the Making of "Ourselves": The Role of Objects in National Identity (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1994).
23. Steven Dubin, Displays of Power: Memory and Amnesia in the American Museum (New York: New York University Press, 1999);
24. Edward Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt, History Wars.
25. Moira Simpson, Making Representations.
26. Henrietta Riegel, "Into the Heart of Irony."
27. Anita Herle, "Torres Strait Islanders."
28. Karen Mary Davalos, "Exhibiting Mestizaje: The Poetics and Experience of Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum," in Latinos in Museums: A Heritage Reclaimed, ed. A. Rios Bustamante and C. Marin (Malabar, Fla.: Kreiger Publishers, 1998);
29. Cited in Reuben De Leon, "Cultural Institutions in Ethnic Los Angeles Neighborhoods" (unpublished paper, UCLA Department of Urban Planning, 1999).
30. Guillermo Gomez-Peña. "The Other Vanguard," in Museums and Communities, 65-75.
31. John Higham, "The Ethnic Historical Society in Changing Times," Journal of American Ethnic History, 13, no. 4 (Winter, 1994): 31-44.
32. Larry Gordon, "As Minorities Thrive, So Do Ethnic Museums," Los Angeles Times, 4 May, 1998.
33. Karen Davalos, "Exhibiting Mestizaje," 40.
34. See Susan Ciccoti. "High Art in L.A.: A Preview of AAM's Annual Meeting City," in Museum News (January/February, 1998)
35. and the Greater Los Angeles Arts Resource Directory (4th ed.) (Los Angeles: Arts Resources and Technical Services, Inc, 1999).
36. The "cabinets of curiosity" housed the treasures collected by the nobility and scholars of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Objects haphazardly covered every inch of the room and were chosen to capture the known world in miniature. See Oliver Impey and Arthur MacGregor, eds., The Origins of Museums: The Cabinet of Curiosities in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985).
37. Brian Breye, Museum in Black, interview by the authors, Los Angeles, Calif. 30 January 2002.
38. "Museum in Black Falls into Red," Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2002.
39. Nancy Araki, Director of Community Affairs, Japanese American National Museum, interview by the authors, Los Angeles, Calif., 6 February 2002.
40. Gregorio Luke, cited in Suzanne Muchnic, "Art, Bridging the Cuban Divide," Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2000.
41. Anonymous curator, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, Calif., interview by Carl Grodach, 11 March 2002.