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Taking possession : the politics of memory in a St. Louis town house

Kolk, Heidi Aronson, author

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\"West of downtown St. Louis sits an 1851 town house that bears no obvious relationship to the monumental architecture, trendy condominiums, and sports stadia of its surroundings. Originally the residence of a fur-trade tycoon and now the Campbell House Museum, the house has been subject to energetic preservation and heritage work for some 130 years. In Taking Possession, Heidi Aronson Kolk explores the complex and sometimes contradictory motivations for safeguarding the house as a site of public memory. Crafting narratives about the past that comforted business elites and white middle-class patrons, museum promoters assuaged concerns about the city's most pressing problems, including racial and economic inequality, segregation and privatization, and the legacies of violence for which St. Louis has been known since Ferguson. Kolk's case study illuminates the processes by which civic pride and cultural solidarity have been manufactured in a fragmented and turbulent city, showing how closely linked acts of memory and forgetting, nostalgia and shame are\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Subject: Campbell family. / Campbell House Museum (Saint Louis, Mo.) History. / Museums and community Missouri Saint Louis. / Collective memory Missouri Saint Louis. / Historic buildings Missouri Saint Louis. / Saint Louis (Mo.) Social life and customs History. / Saint Louis (Mo.) History.
• ISBN: 9781625344144, 9781625344151

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
F474.S257 K65 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE