Who Remembers Slavery Today? Social Movements and Public History

‍The struggle to end the slave trade and slavery was followed by efforts to distort, suppress or symbolically annihilate public memory of slavery. In England and the Netherlands today, the public history and collective memory of slavery and its legacies is currently reflected in the activities of five social movements or trends: the remembrance and commemoration movement, the reparations movement, the anniversaries and apologies trend, the museum heritage and artifacts trend and the new anti-slavery movement. In this talk, Dr. Kwame Nimako will describe the movements and discuss the implications for knowledge production and public discussion at the present time.

‍Kwame Nimako, Ph.D. is the founder and director of the Summer School on Black Europe in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He holds degrees in sociology and economics and has taught race and ethnic relations and internatio­nal relations at the Universiteit van Amsterdam for more than 25 years. He is currently visiting professor in The Department of African American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, where he teaches on the political economy of development.  

Dr. Nimako is the author or co-author of 30 books, reports and guidebooks on economic development, ethnic relations, social policy, urban renewal, and migration. His most recent book is The Dutch Atlantic: Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation, 2011.

‍Free with MoAD Admission