TY - BOOK ID - 103685162 TI - A pedagogy of witnessing PY - 2014 SN - 1438452691 1438452705 1438452713 9781438452715 9781438452692 9781438452692 PB - Albany DB - UniCat KW - Public history. KW - Social justice KW - Museum exhibits KW - Historiography. KW - Psychological aspects. KW - Social aspects. KW - Historical criticism KW - History KW - Authorship KW - Display techniques KW - Displays, Museum KW - Museum displays KW - Museums KW - Exhibitions KW - Museum techniques KW - Equality KW - Justice KW - Applied history KW - Criticism KW - Historiography UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:103685162 AB - This book focuses on two museum exhibitions that presented the same lynching photographs. Through a detailed description of the exhibitions and drawing on interviews with museum staff and visitor comments, Roger I. Simon explores the affective challenges to thought that lie behind the different curatorial frameworks and how viewers' comments on the exhibitions perform a particular conversation about race in America. He then extends the discussion to include contrasting exhibitions of photographs of atrocities committed by the German army on the Eastern Front during World War II, as well as to photographs taken at the Khmer Rouge S-21 torture and killing center. With an insightful blending of theoretical and qualitative analysis, Simon proposes new conceptualizations for a contemporary public pedagogy dedicated to bearing witness to the documents of racism. ER -