ABSTRACT

This essay extends the work of critical international and intercultural scholars that have studied the persuasive functions of memoryscapes. The authors argue that the 2018 opening of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice (NMPJ) and Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama has provided Bryan Stevenson and the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) with key spaces and places for radical critiques of what they call the American forgetting of “racial terror” lynchings. The authors contend that unlike more traditional civil rights museums, which tend to highlight the progress that has been made since the time of the 1960s civil rights movement, the more “postmodern” NMPJ and Legacy Museum provide viewers with a “hauntology” that connects America’s dark history of lynching to its current age of mass incarceration.

摘要

本文扩展了批判性国际和跨文化学者的工作，他们研究了记忆景观的说服功能。作者认为，阿拉巴马州蒙哥马利的国家和平与正义纪念馆 (NMPJ) 和遗产博物馆于 2018 年开幕，为布赖恩·史蒂文森和平等正义倡议 (EJI) 提供了关键空间和场所，可以对他们所谓的美国人忘记了“种族恐怖”私刑。作者认为，与更传统的民权博物馆不同，后者往往强调自 1960 年代民权运动以来取得的进展，而更“后现代”的 NMPJ 和遗产博物馆为观众提供了一种“鬼魂”，将美国的私刑到目前大规模监禁的黑暗历史。