Review: Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices, by Kristin Ann Hass

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Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices, by Kristin Ann Hass Kristin Ann Hass, Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices. Boston: Beacon Press, 2022. Jesse Bucher Jesse Bucher Roanoke College Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2023) 45 (4): 129–131. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.129 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jesse Bucher; Review: Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices, by Kristin Ann Hass. The Public Historian 1 November 2023; 45 (4): 129–131. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.129 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe Public Historian Search Kristin Hass’s new book, Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices, provides a timely and accessible introduction to some of the ways in which memorials, museums, and everyday patriotic practices produce and reproduce systemic racism in America. Blunt Instruments directly engages with recent national and international debates about racist cultural practices, and especially speaks to and embraces questions raised by social movements that emerged in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder in 2020. To these current debates, Hass adds what she describes as a “field guide…to help readers identify, contextualize, and name elements of our everyday landscapes and cultural practices that are designed to seem benign or natural but that, in fact, work tirelessly to tell vital stories about who we are, how we came to be, and who belongs” (3). To reach this goal, Blunt Instruments introduces and applies a repeatable critical framework... You do not currently have access to this content.