Public Heritage Lecture Series
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Document Type
Article
Creation Date
10-24-2019
Description
For the past twenty years or so, there has been considerable criticism about the lack of "diversity" in both the racial demographics of those who visit historic sites and the narratives advanced at those sites. These well-meaning criticisms can lead to problematic conclusions about what it means to visit--or not visit--sites of cultural heritage and how places of heritage and history are categorized as being more or less relevant to a particular racial, ethnic, or cultural group.
This presentation will present some findings from my recent research and ask some questions about how these ideas might apply to sites in the Rio Grande Valley, both in terms of visitorship and interpretation.
Recommended Citation
Public Heritage Lecture Series, UTRGV Digital Library, The University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley. Accessed via https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/phls/