Rethinking America's Past: Voices from the Kinsey African American Art and History Collection

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October 21 2021 Rethinking America's Past: Voices from the Kinsey African American Art and History Collection Rethinking America's Past: Voices from the Kinsey African American Art and History Collection edited by Tim Gruenewald Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati Press, 2019. 292 pp., b/w and color ill., biblio, index. $55.00 hardcover Lori M. West Lori M. West Lori M. West is an educational and public historian. Her research examines Critical Race Museology (CRM), transnational oral histories, and the Black Museums Movement. She holds a PhD in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. loriwest@illinois.edu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Lori M. West Lori M. West is an educational and public historian. Her research examines Critical Race Museology (CRM), transnational oral histories, and the Black Museums Movement. She holds a PhD in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. loriwest@illinois.edu Online Issn: 1937-2108 Print Issn: 0001-9933 © 2021 by the Regents of the University of California2021Regents of the University of California African Arts (2021) 54 (4): 94–96. https://doi.org/10.1162/afar_r_00620 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Search Site Citation Lori M. West; Rethinking America's Past: Voices from the Kinsey African American Art and History Collection. African Arts 2021; 54 (4): 94–96. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/afar_r_00620 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentAll JournalsAfrican Arts Search Advanced Search America is at a crossroads and must reconcile with its past to strengthen its future. Amidst unprecedented historical and global unrest, the Kinsey African American Art and History Collection illuminates centuries of African American intellectual, artistic, and innovative accomplishments. Crystalized and curated for over forty years by Bernard W. Kinsey, Shirley Pooler Kinsey, and Khalil Kinsey, the Kinsey Collection has been shared with over twenty-two million visitors and was the first “major African American collection to be shown internationally” (p. 28). This book “would not exist” (p. xxiii) without the Kinseys' 2016–2017 exhibition of Rising Above: The Kinsey African American Art and History Collection hosted by the University of Hong Kong Museum and Art Gallery. Engaging history and the arts allows us to envision the past, understand the present, and prepare the future.... © 2021 by the Regents of the University of California2021Regents of the University of California You do not currently have access to this content.