CURATING NATIONAL NARRATIVES channel logo CURATING NATIONAL NARRATIVES
  • Custom URL: @curatingnationalnarratives6985
  • Country: United States 🇺🇸
  • Description language: English

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  • Audience: 304
  • Video Views: 48.28K
  • # videos: 48
  • Category: Hobby Knowledge Lifestyle
  • Date Created: 2020-06-26
  • Date Updated: 2024-03-28
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Keywords: Africa Black history Art Demography narratives museums monuments


Curating National Narratives aims to decolonize the narrative of Africa & the African diaspora through dialogue with politicians, artists, museum curators, community leaders, & community members. Topics include the decolonization of museums, the fight for African Independence, & African Americans' fight for freedom & equality. This channel, curated by Dr. Tukufu Zuberi, aims to reshape & expand how people think about the history, present, & future of Africa and the diaspora. Dr. Zuberi, the Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations at the University of Pennsylvania, is a writer, documentarian, & curator. He curated "Tides of Freedom: African Presence on the Delaware" at the Independence Seaport Museum; "Black Bodies in Propaganda: The Art of the War Poster" (Penn Museum; Northwest African American Museum); & the "AFRICA GALLERIES from Maker to Museum" (Penn Museum). From 2003 to 2014, Dr. Zuberi was a host of the hit Public Broadcasting System (PBS) series History Detectives.