
Representing Blackness
The Marcus Mosiah Garvey Multimedia Museum
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About this book
Dr Donna E. McFarlane Curator and Director of the Marcus Mosiah Garvey Multimedia Museum (2003–2017) carefully reconstructs the history of Jamaica’s museums, and the world of new museum studies centered on Jamaica’s First National Hero life’s work and philosophy. The timelessness of Garvey and The Universal Negro Improvement (UNIA) is examined through exhibitions, library holdings, local community activities and 21st century museum technology housed in the historical and renovated Liberty Hall.
Through the energetic and gifted abilities of Dr McFarlane,
Representing Blackness provides the ideological framework as to why there
is value of these kinds of programs in museum settings. Further, McFarlane
is adamant that Garvey must be included in curriculum resources for
all Jamaican schools. Garvey’s philosophy and opinions inspire, excite,
and positively affect the self-identity of Jamaican people, while creating
social and economic wealth. Representing Blackness rich in analysis and
imagery shows Liberty Hall as the cultural and educational institution
that is a living monument to Marcus Mosiah Garvey.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Prologue
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction – Museums at the Crossroads – The Making of the Marcus Mosiah Garvey Multimedia Museum
- 2. Museums in Jamaica: Injecting a Good Dose of English Culture; Restoring Blackness at the Core
- 3. Paving the Way for a Museum for the Jamaican People
- 4. Setting the Colonial Identity Stage
- 5. Liberty Hall: The Legacy of Marcus Garvey
- 6. The Friends of Liberty Hall (Marcus Garvey) Foundation – 2002
- 7. Building a Cultural Educational Institution that Serves Members of the Surrounding Inner-City Communities First
- 8. Representing Blackness: The MMGMM
- 9. Representing Blackness in Jamaica’s Post-Colonial Museums – The MMGMM
- The Future: Notes from Donna McFarlane, 9 May 2011, Kingston, Jamaica
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography