Establishing Roots: African American Women and the Early Museum
Establishing Roots: African American Women and the Early Museum Understanding the origin and early establishments of these African American community museums stands as the main discussion in Andrea Burn’s book, From Storefront to Monument: Tracing the Public History of the Black Museum Movement . Her argument is well planned, her writing is concise and her historiography denoting the changes of the African American museum is linear. One argument I would raise would be the minimal representation of the contributions of African American women in the creation of the early museum. This is not to say that Burns never mentions the contributions of African American women. Burns discusses Margaret Burroughs’ contribution to the founding of the DuSable Museum of African American History, and she discusses the fundamental work of the women who volunteered their time and knowledge in their community museums. She even mentio...