Cultural space and race: The national civil rights museum and museumafrica

Howard Journal of Communications

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 15-28

  Atwater, Deborah F ^a   Herndon, Sandra L ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ITHACA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective memory; Cultural space; Museums; Public memory; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247439691     PISSN: 10646175     EISSN: 10964649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10646170304273     Document Type: Article

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