The Politics of Heritage: The Legacies of 'Race' (Comedia) (Comedia)

While 'social inclusion' and 'cultural diversity' circulate frenetically as buzzwords, are we really ready to accept that ideas about 'race' and 'ethnicity', rather than being a peripheral concern, are at the core of how a nation's heritage is represented and imagined?This book interrogates just whose past gets to count as part of 'British heritage'. Bringing together a wide range of contributors, including academics, practitioners, policy makers and curators, it examines how many different of types of heritage - from football to stately homes, experience attractions to education - deal with the complex legacies of the idea of 'race'.Whether exploring the fallout of colonialism, the domination of 'England' over the other three nations, holocaust memorials, or the way British heritage is negotiated overseas, a recurring theme of this book is the need to accept that Britain has always been a place of shifting ethnicities, shaped by waves of migration, diaspora and globalization.Analyzing both theory and practice, this book is concerned with understanding the processes through which changes to heritage happens, and with exploring problems and possibilities for the future. The Politics Of Heritage Brings Together Leading Cultural Critics, Practitioners, Policy Makers And Curators To Explore The Processes Of Heritage Formation, Focusing On Issues Of 'race' And Ethnicity. Analysing Both Theory And Practice, The Book Is Concerned With Understanding How 'heritage' Changes And Develops, And With Exploring Problems And Possibilities For The Future.--jacket. Introduction : British Heritage And The Legacies Of 'race' / Jo Littler -- Whose Heritage? : Un-settling 'the Heritage', Re-imagining The Post-nation / Stuart Hall -- Never Mind The Buzzwords : 'race', Heritage And The Liberal Agenda / Roshi Naidoo -- Commemorating The Holocaust : Reconfiguring National Identity In The Twenty-first Century / Sharon Mcdonald -- Museums, Communities And The Politics Of Heritage In Northern Ireland / Elizabeth Crooke -- Ghosts : Heritage And The Shape Of Things To Come / Jonathan Rutherford -- Making Place, Resisting Desplacement : Conflicting National And Local Identities In Scotland / Sian Jones -- Reinventing The Nation : British Heritage And The Bicultural Settlement In New Zealand / Lynda Dyson -- Taking Root In Britain : The Process Of Shaping Heritage / Naseem Khan -- What A Difference A Bay Makes : Cinema And Welsh Heritage / Gill Branston -- History Teaching And Heritage Education : Two Sides Of The Same Coin, Or Different Currencies? / John Hamer -- Picture This : The 'black' Curator / Carol Tulloch -- A Community Of Communities / Jim Mcguigan -- Inheriting Diversity : Archiving The Past / S.i. Martin -- Keep The Flags Flying : World Cup 2002, Football And The Remaking Of Englishness / Mark Perryman -- Afterword: 'strolling Spectators' And 'practical Londoners' : Remembering The Imperial Past / Bill Schwarz. Edited By Jo Littler And Roshi Naidoo. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 237-255) And Index. Introduction : British heritage and the legacies of 'race' / Jo Littler Whose heritage? : unsettling 'the heritage', re-imagining the post-nation / Stuart Hall Never mind the buzzwords : 'race', heritage, and the liberal agenda / Roshi Naidoo Commemorating the Holocaust : reconfiguring national identity in the twenty-first century / Sharon McDonald Museums, communities, and the politics of heritage in Northern Ireland / Elizabeth Crooke Ghosts : heritage and the shape of things to come / Jonathan Rutherford Fragments from the margins : conflicting national and local identities in Scotland / Sian Jones Reinventing the nation : British heritage and the bicultural settlement in New Zealand / Lynda Dyson Taking root in Britain : the process of shaping heritage / Naseem Khan What a difference a bay makes : cinema and Welsh heritage / Gill Branston History teaching and heritage education : two sides of the same coin, or different currencies? / John Hamer Picture this : the 'Black' curator / Carol Tulloch A community of communities / Jim McGuigan Inheriting diversity : archiving the past / S.I. Martin Keep the flags flying : World Cup 2002, football and the remaking of Englishness / Mark Perryman Afterword: 'strolling spectators' and 'practical Londoners' : remembering the imperial past / Bill Schwarz. This conference on 'Whose Heritage?' provides an opportunity to look critically at the whole concept of 'British Heritage' from the perspective of the multicultural Britain which has been emerging since the end of World War Two. This collection explores how the heritage industry and cultural policy have responded to questions of nation and national identity