{"product_id":"negro-building-black-americans-in-the-world-of-fairs-and-museums-hardcover","title":"Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMabel O. Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on Black Americans' participation in world's fairs, Emancipation expositions, and early Black grassroots museums, \u003ci\u003eNegro Building\u003c\/i\u003e traces the evolution of Black public history from the Civil War through the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Mabel O. Wilson gives voice to the figures who conceived the curatorial content: Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, A. Philip Randolph, Horace Cayton, and Margaret Burroughs. Originally published in 2012, the book reveals why the Black cities of Chicago and Detroit became the sites of major Black historical museums rather than the nation's capital, which would eventually become home for the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opened in 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNegro Building\u003c\/i\u003e is the most comprehensive study yet published about the long history of representations of, by, and for African Americans at world's fairs and museums. Wilson's book underscores why cultural representations have mattered and continue to matter for African Americans--and for everyone trying to understand what it means to be an American.--Robert W. Rydell, author of \u003ci\u003eAll the World's a Fair\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With abundant archival insights, Mabel Wilson's highly original study of the role of world's fairs in the making of a black public sphere vividly illuminates the transition from Reconstruction to Afro-Modernity with page-turning brilliance. Making a unique contribution to the fields of art history, architecture, visual culture and museum studies, this book offers us a bold interdisciplinary model for first-rate scholarship in African American studies that profoundly enriches our understanding of the Black Atlantic world.\"--Kobena Mercer, Professor of African American Studies and History of Art, Yale University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMabel O. Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e is the Nancy and George Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Professor in African American and African Diasporic Studies; and Associate Director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS) at Columbia University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.32 x 9.21 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 28, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45390905802854,"sku":"9780520268425","price":87.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/V1p0dWdIV1NFcDQraCtLa0FMZSt1QT09.webp?v=1775123424","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/negro-building-black-americans-in-the-world-of-fairs-and-museums-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}