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Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices
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How monuments, museums, and everyday patriotic practices serve to uphold white supremacy in the United States Cultural infrastructure has been designed to maintain structures of inequality and while they don't seem to be explicitly about race, they often are.
Blunt Instruments looks at three categories of cultural infrastructure: memorials and monuments, museums, and everyday patriotic practices. Each of these have been very much in the news for most of the twenty-first century. In fact, more intense, riotous, fraught attention has been paid to them in the last 20 years than in most of the first 200 years of American life. And yet, they are seldom looked at together or understood explicitly as tools used by particular people at certain times and places to shape the culture.
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 from the Robert E. Lee statue to the Bridge to Freedom in Selma, from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to Kehinde Wiley's 2019 sculpture, Rumors of War.
With sharp analysis and a broad lens, Hass makes the undeniable 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.
Blunt Instruments looks at three categories of cultural infrastructure: memorials and monuments, museums, and everyday patriotic practices. Each of these have been very much in the news for most of the twenty-first century. In fact, more intense, riotous, fraught attention has been paid to them in the last 20 years than in most of the first 200 years of American life. And yet, they are seldom looked at together or understood explicitly as tools used by particular people at certain times and places to shape the culture.
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 from the Robert E. Lee statue to the Bridge to Freedom in Selma, from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to Kehinde Wiley's 2019 sculpture, Rumors of War.
With sharp analysis and a broad lens, Hass makes the undeniable 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.
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