Visual Materiality and Silent Memories
Searching for the Enslaved Victims in Plantation Spaces
Visual Materiality and Silent Memories
Searching for the Enslaved Victims in Plantation Spaces
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Description
Visual Materiality and SIlent Memories provides a type of rememberance journey through plantation historyto raise awareness of what is missing about the enslaved, and question what changes should be made in these spaces.
Visual representations can memorialize, marginalize, or ignore victims of cultural oppression. By refocusing the history of plantations on the enslaved, with the visual disjoint between the resurrected plantation glory and the downplaying of the enslaved experience in plantation spaces, Susan Garza unconvers how the victimization of the enslaved has previously been absent from the conversation. The visual research in this text aims to look differently at spaces we may encounter every day and seek out what we are unaware is happening as a result of the design of visual spaces.
Garza aruges awareness of the silence of the victimization and how it can affect visitors is one way to build racial awareness. Memorial plantations have been called to reexamine deception through manipulation of events, as victimization has been basically written out of history through the visual focus in these spaces. This book is one answer to that call.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Come With Me and See What We May Find at a Plantation
2. Look, the Slave Cabins Were Right Behind You the Whole Time: Sequence
3. The New “Whitewashed” Cabins: A Safe Story? Depth
4. You'll Have to Go to the Swamp to Find the Victims: Distance
5. Rice in a Baby Food Jar? Perception
6. Counter Narratives/Counter Memories
Appendix A: Memorial Plantation Sites Visited and Research Conducted
Appendix B: Holocaust Concentration and Extermination Camps, and Memorials Visited
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Product details
| Published | Dec 10 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 192 |
| ISBN | 9798216480372 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 14 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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