02562cam a2200361 i 4500 607921189 TxAuBib 20230222120000.0 220927s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022043499 9780807006719 HRD 25.95 0807006718 HRD 25.95 TxAuBib rda Hass, Kristin Ann, 1965-, author Blunt instruments. Blunt instruments [BOOK] : recognizing racist cultural infrastructure in memorials, museums, and patriotic practices / Kristin Ann Hass. Boston : Beacon Press, [2022] 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Memorials -- Museums -- Patriotic practices. Cultural infrastructure has been designed to maintain structures of inequality, and while it doesn’t seem to be explicitly about race, it often is. Blunt Instruments helps readers identify, contextualize, and name elements of our everyday landscapes and cultural practices that are designed to seem benign or natural but which, in fact, work tirelessly to tell us vital stories about who we are, how we came to be, and who belongs. Examining landmark moments such as the erection of the first American museum and Colin Kaepernick’s kneeling pledge of allegiance, historian Kristin Hass explores the complicated histories of sites of cultural infrastructure, such as: the American Museum of Natural History, the Bridge to Freedom in Selma, the Washington Monument, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Kehinde Wiley’s 2019 sculpture Rumors of War, the Victory Highway, the Alamo Cenotaph. Hass makes the case that understanding what cultural infrastructure is, and the deep and broad impact that it has, is essential to understanding how structures of inequity are maintained and how they might be dismantled. Provided by publisher. 20230222. Memorials Social aspects United States. Monuments Social aspects United States. Historic sites Social aspects United States. Cultural property United States. Museums and minorities United States. Racism United States History. Patriotism United States History. United States Race relations History.