Required Readings

“42nd Street | How to Make Your Own Zine |.” Accessed January 31, 2025. https://www.42ndstreet.org.uk/support/read/how-to-make-your-own-zine.

Abram, Ruth J. “Kitchen Conversations: Democracy in Action at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum.” The Public Historian 29, no. 1 (2007): 59–76. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2007.29.1.59.

Akpang, Clement. “Beyond the Neo-Imperial Politicizing of Object Repatriation: Restitution and the Question of Decolonization.” Art Journal Open (blog), November 22, 2024. http://artjournal.collegeart.org/?p=19111.

Alpers, Svetlana. “The Museum as a Way of Seeing.” In Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display, edited by Ivan Karp and Steven Lavine, 25–32. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mTFxY0hajxBaGJlVZBJ6FB77vwbrQgcl/view?usp=drive_link.

Atalay, Sonya, Jennifer Shannon, and John G. Swogger. Journeys to Complete the Work. NAGPRA Comics 1. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, 2017. https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/books/s7526d43c.

Atleo, Richard E. “Policy Development for Museums: A First Nations Perspective.” BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, no. 89 (1991): 48–61. https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i89.1387.

———. “Policy Development for Museums: A First Nations Perspective.” In In Celebration of Our Survival: The First Nations of British Columbia, edited by Doreen Jensen and Cheryl Brooks, 48–61. BC Studies 89. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1991. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1scAbjmVCtzs3egOHue–k256aVUG4GfR/view?usp=drive_link.

Brown, Georgia. “Counter-Mapping.” ArcGIS StoryMaps, October 12, 2023. https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/94275411178445db9cd601c2a2c348c7.

Bryan Knight. The Brutish Museums (with Prof. Dan Hicks), 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHaBUMvjves.

buenosairesit.com, Buenos Aires IT-. “Saartjie Baartman Memorial.” CIPDH – UNESCO (blog). Accessed February 3, 2025. https://www.cipdh.gob.ar/memorias-situadas/en/lugar-de-memoria/memorial-saartjie-baartman/.

Callimachi, Rukmini. “One Set of China. Five Generations.” The New York Times, December 31, 2024, sec. Real Estate. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/12/31/realestate/fine-china-dumulong-family.html.

Cannizzo, Jeanne. “Exhibiting Cultures: ‘Into the Heart of Africa.’” Visual Anthropology Review 7, no. 1 (1991): 150–60. https://doi.org/10.1525/var.1991.7.1.150.

———. “Into the Heart of Africa”: Items Related to the Exhibition Held at the Royal Ontario Museum, November 16, 1989 to August 6, 1990. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1989. https://dn790006.ca.archive.org/0/items/intoheartofafric00roya/intoheartofafric00roya.pdf.

Chapman, William Ryan. “Arranging Ethnology: A.H.L.F. Pitt Rivers and Typological Tradition.” In Objects and Others: Essays on Museums and Material Culture, edited by George W. Stocking, 15–48. Madison, UNITED STATES: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brooklyn-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3445023.

Danto, Arthur Coleman. Art/Artifact : African Art in Anthropology Collections. New York : Munich: Center for African Art : Prestel Verlag, 1989.

http://archive.org/details/artartifactafric0000unse

DTP. “Decolonize This Place.” Accessed January 21, 2025. https://decolonizethisplace.org.

Dubin, Steven C. “A Matter of Perspective: Revisionist History and The West as America.” In Displays of Power: Controversy in the American Museum from the Enola Gay to Sensation, 152–87. New York and London: New York University Press, 1999.

Duncan, Carol. “Art Museums and the Ritual of Citizenship.” In Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display, edited by Ivan Karp and Steven Lavine, 88–103. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E0FGEml78YQZVfgMl9QIwY_B4k7Ulku_/view?usp=drive_link.

Duperron, Brenna. “Reconciling Medieval Studies: A Showcase of Dr. Tarren Andrews, Sarah-Nelle Jackson, and Sarah LaVoy-Brunette.” Academic. OpenThink (blog), March 5, 2024. https://blogs.dal.ca/openthink/reconciling-medieval-studies-a-showcase-of-dr-tarren-andrews-sarah-nelle-jackson-and-sarah-lavoy-brunette/.

Fusco, Coco. “The Year of the White Bear and Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West Performance with Guillermo Gómez-Peña.” Personal. Coco Fusco, 1994 1992. https://www.cocofusco.com/two-undiscovered-amerindians.

Fusco, Coco, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Paula Heredia, and Authentic Documentary Productions. The Couple in the Cage: A Guatinaui Odyssey. Academic Video Online. New York, NY: Third World Newsreel, 1993. https://brooklyn.ezproxy.cuny.edu/login?url=https://video.alexanderstreet.com/p/lRVV47zl7.

Gable, Eric, and Richard Handler. “Colonialist Anthropology at Colonial Williamsburg.” Museum Anthropology 17, no. 3 (1993): 26–31. https://doi.org/10.1525/mua.1993.17.3.26.

Gaudenzi, Bianca, and Astrid Swenson. “Looted Art and Restitution in the Twentieth Century – Towards a Global Perspective.” Journal of Contemporary History 52, no. 3 (2017): 491–518. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44504060.

Gilgan, Elizabeth. “Ch. 9 Looting and the Market for Maya Objects. A Belizean Perspective.” In Trade in Illicit Antiquities: The Destruction of the World’s Archaeological Heritage, edited by Neil Brodie, Jennifer Doole, and Colin Renfrew, 73–87. McDonald Institute Monographs. Cambridge, Oakville, CT, USA: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research ; David Brown [distributor], 2001. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/46693424.html.

Graff, Rebecca S. “Dream City, Plaster City: Worlds’ Fairs and the Gilding of American Material Culture.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology 16, no. 4 (2012): 696–716. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23355814.

Gurian, Elaine Heumann. “What Is the Object of This Exercise? A Meandering Exploration of the Many Meanings of Objects in Museums.” Daedalus (Cambridge, Mass.) 128, no. 3 (1999): 163–83. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A56072146/LitRC?sid=summon&u=cuny_broo39667.

Hicks, Dan. “Preface and Chapter 2-A Theory of Taking.” In The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution, pp xii-xvii; pp 18–24. London, UNITED KINGDOM: Pluto Press, 2020. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brooklyn-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6371331.

Hinsley, Curtis. “The World as Marketplace: Commodification of the Exotic at the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893.” In Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display, edited by Ivan Karp and Steven Lavine, 344–65. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. https://drive.google.com/file/d/16gB8vdi9xCgQj-FNbf5xtXdHv1eLsako/view?usp=drive_link.

Jacknis, Ira. “’A Magic Place’: The Northwest Coast Indian Hall at the American Museum of Natural History.” In Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions, edited by Marie Mauzé, Michael Eugene Harkin, and Sergei Kan, 221–50. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. https://archive.org/details/comingtoshorenor0000nort.

———. “Franz Boas and Exhibits: On the Limitations of the Museum Method in Anthropology.” In Objects and Others: Essays on Museums and Material Culture, edited by George W. Stocking, 75–111. Madison, UNITED STATES: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brooklyn-ebooks/reader.action?docID=3445023&ppg=84.

Kilts, Kathleen Thompson. “Misunderstandings between Repatriation and Reparations.” National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) (blog), May 13, 2022. https://reparationscomm.org/reparations-news/misunderstandings-between-repatriation-and-reparations/.

Kim, Christine. “Colonial Plunder and the Failure of Restitution in Postwar Korea.” Journal of Contemporary History 52, no. 3 (July 1, 2017): 607–24. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009417692410.

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. “Destination Museum.” In Destination Culture : Tourism, Museums, and Heritage, 131–76. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1998. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mC5l1cVuRLGQ4k1lx-HVYOT4vvahuPun/view?usp=sharing.

Kopytoff, Igor. “Cultural Biography of Things: Commodification as Process.” In The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective, edited by Arjun Appadurai, 64–91. Cambridge University Press, 1986. https://hdl-handle-net.brooklyn.ezproxy.cuny.edu/2027/heb32141.0001.001.

Kreps, Christina Faye. “Indigenous Curation as Intangible Cultural Heritage : Thoughts on the Relevance of the 2003 UNESCO Convention.” Theorizing Cultural Heritage 1, no. 2 (cop 2005): 1–8. https://folklife.si.edu/resources/center/cultural_policy/pdf/ChristinaKrepsfellow.pdf.

Kurin, R. (1997). Making a Museum Object. In Reflections of a culture broker: A view from the Smithsonian (pp. 57–70). Smithsonian Institution Press. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aKLFstOsKMXMgrwoCpl5Dg4ouawPa1Zd/view?usp=drive_link

Lehrer, Erica, and Cynthia E. Milton. “Introduction: Witnesses to Witnessing.” In Curating Difficult Knowledge, 1–19. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230319554_1.

Lonetree, Amy. “Chapter 3: Exhibiting Native America at the National Museum of the American Indian.” In Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums, 81–123. Chapel Hill, UNITED STATES: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brooklyn-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1076066.

Lost Art-Datenbank. “Lost Art-Datenbank | Lost Art-Datenbank.” Accessed February 4, 2025. https://www.lostart.de/de/start.

Martin, Fleur. “Silent Heritage: Investigating Ruxton’s Nigeria Collection at the Horniman Museum and Gardens.” Itinerario 47, no. 2 (2023): 257–77. https://doi.org/10.1017/S016511532300013X.

———. “Silent Heritage: Investigating Ruxton’s Nigeria Collection at the Horniman Museum and Gardens.” Itinerario 47, no. 2 (August 2023): 257–77. https://doi.org/10.1017/S016511532300013X.

Maseko, Zola, Gail Smith, Black Roots Pictures, and Icarus Films. The Return of Sara Baartman. Brooklyn, NY: Icarus Films, 2003. https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/the-return-of-sara-baartman.

MoWRe. “Museum of Women’s Resistance An International Site of Conscience at Black Women’s Blueprint.” Museum. Accessed February 3, 2025. https://www.museumofwomensresistance.org.

Nayeri, Farah. “A ‘Digital Heist’ Recaptures the Rosetta Stone.” The New York Times, August 11, 2023, sec. Arts. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/arts/looty-rosetta-stone-benin-bronzes.html.

Nelson, Ashley. “En Solidaridad: CIDH y Dr. Paulo Abrão.” Sites of Conscience (blog), August 27, 2020. http://www.sitesofconscience.org/2020/08/en-solidaridad-cidh-y-dr-paulo-abrao/.

Ng, Wendy, and J’net AyAyQwaYakSheelth. “Decolonize and Indigenize: A Reflective Dialogue.” Viewfinder: Reflecting on Museum Education (blog), June 28, 2018. https://medium.com/viewfinder-reflecting-on-museum-education/decolonize-and-indigenize-a-reflective-dialogue-3de78fa76442.

Nora, Pierre. “Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Mémoire.” Representations, no. 26 (1989): 7–24. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928520.

Patterson, Monica Eileen. “Teaching Tolerance through Objects of Hatred: The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia as ‘Counter-Museum.’” In Curating Difficult Knowledge, 55–71, 2011. https://www.academia.edu/8587585/Teaching_Tolerance_Through_Objects_of_Hatred_The_Jim_Crow_Museum_of_Racist_Memorabilia_as_Counter_Museum_.

Pietras, Rich. “Deborah Willis to Serve as Brooklyn College’s Franklin Day Speaker.” Brooklyn College (blog), February 22, 2023. https://www.brooklyn.edu/bc-news/deborah-willis-to-serve-as-brooklyn-colleges-franklin-day-speaker/.

Qureshi, Sadiah. “Displaying Sara Baartman, the ‘Hottentot Venus.’” History of Science 42, no. 2 (2004): 233–57. https://doi.org/10.1177/007327530404200204.

Ruffins, Faith David. “Revisiting the Old Plantation: Reparations, Reconciliation, and Museumizing American Slaver.” In Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations, edited by Ivan Karp, 394–434. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. https://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0614/2006016164.html.

Sanicharan, Rachelle. “Analysis of Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez Peña’s ‘The Couple in the Cage: A Guatinaui Odyssey.’” Caribbean Quilt 6, no. 1 (November 29, 2021): 43–46. https://doi.org/10.33137/cq.v6i1.36921.

Science Pub. Nova The Mummy Who Would Be King, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxEFOGvaKx4.

Ševčenko, Liz, and Maggie Russell-Ciardi. “Foreword.” The Public Historian 30, no. 1 (2008): 9–15. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2008.30.1.9.

———. “Foreword.” The Public Historian 30, no. 1 (2008): 9–15. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2008.30.1.9.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Met Exhibition to Explore How Black Artists Have Engaged with Ancient Egypt Over the Last 150 Years – The Metropolitan Museum of Art.” Museum, November 12, 2024. https://www.metmuseum.org/press-releases/flight-into-egypt.

The War Channel. The Monument Men | Full Documentary, 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj9UxHRyOjs.

The West as America : Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820-1920. Washington : Published for the National Museum of American Art by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. http://archive.org/details/westasamericarei0000unse.

Thompson, Nicole. “Royal Ontario Museum Apologizes for 1989 ‘Into the Heart of Africa’ Exhibit | Globalnews.Ca.” News. Global News Canada, November 10, 2016. https://globalnews.ca/news/3058929/royal-ontario-museum-apologizes-for-1989-into-the-heart-of-africa-exhibit/.

van, Niekerk GJ. “The Case of the Hottentot Venus : An Exercise in Legal History.” Fundamina : A Journal of Legal History 13, no. 2 (January 2007): 146–74. https://doi.org/10.10520/EJC-72be71f56.

Varela, Sandra Lopez. “Museums and the Restitution of Cultural Property.” Anthropology News, April 28, 2020. https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/museums-and-the-restitution-of-cultural-property/.

———. “Museums and the Restitution of Cultural Property.” Anthropology News, April 28, 2020. https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/museums-and-the-restitution-of-cultural-property/.

Vogel, Susan. “Always True to the Object, in Our Fashion.” In Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display, edited by Ivan Karp and Steven Lavine, 191–204. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lwDZ2_ewXLpgojlHhIOpmZym6oM3ypIV/view?usp=sharing.

Watkins, Joe. “Becoming American or Becoming Indian?: NAGPRA, Kennewick and Cultural Affiliation.” Journal of Social Archaeology 4, no. 1 (February 1, 2004): 60–80. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469605304039850.

Willis, Deb. “Deb Willis.” Personal. Deb Willis, 2024. https://debwillisphoto.com/home.html.

Wilson, Fred. “Fred Wilson’s Memories of Egypt – The Metropolitan Museum of Art.” Museum. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 22, 2024. https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/fred-wilsons-memories-of-egypt.

Wilson, Fred, and Howard Halle. “Mining the Museum.” Grand Street, no. 44 (1993): 151–72. https://doi.org/10.2307/25007622.

Supplemental Resources

Alphabetized Bibliography

List of Museums

Museum Map of NYC