title: Exhibiting Dilemmas: Issues of Representation at the Smithsonian
author: Amy Henderson
description: This book is a courageous and candid affirmation of the educational and interpretive responsibilities of history museums. . . . The authors provide eloquent recognition of the need to negotiate a popular yet thoroughly professional path between history and memory, celebration, and commemoration.Michael Kammen, Cornell University<br /><br />A cultural benchmark. . . . Each [contributor] faces the challenge of bringing an institution founded on the Eurocentric values and colonialist viewpoints of the nineteenth century into line with the values and perspectives of our present multicultural society.<i>Kansas City Star</i>
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