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Taking Possession

The Politics of Memory in a St. Louis Town House
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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 are acts of memory and forgetting, nostalgia and shame.

Author Biography:

Heidi Aronson Kolk is associate director of American culture studies and assistant vice provost of academic assessment at Washington University in St. Louis.
Release date NZ
March 30th, 2019
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
23 black & white illustrations
Pages
248
ISBN-13
9781625344151
Product ID
28774896

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