Wayne Modest: Museum Repatriation

Wayne Modest is the Director of Content for the National Museum of Worldcultures and the Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam and head of the Research Center of Material Culture. He is also professor of Material Culture and Critical Heritage Studies at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Modest was previously, head of the curatorial department at the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam; Keeper of Anthropology at the Horniman Museum in London, and Director of the Museums of History and Ethnography in Kingston, Jamaica.

Additional resources that Dr. Modest recommends:

Decolonize This Place https://decolonizethisplace.org/faxxx-1

Rhodes Must Fall https://harvardpolitics.com/rhodes-must-fall/

Report on the Restitution of African Cultural Heritage by Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy http://restitutionreport2018.com/sarr_savoy_en.pdf

Potential History, Unlearning Imperialism by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay https://www.versobooks.com/books/3079-potential-history

History, Fable and Myth in the Caribbean and Guianas by Wilson Harris and Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe  https://www.amazon.com/History-Fable-Myth-Caribbean-Guianas/dp/0911565205

Whiteness as Property by Cheryl Harris https://harvardlawreview.org/1993/06/whiteness-as-property/

Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership (Global and Insurgent Legalities) By Brenna Bhandar https://www.indiebound.org/buy-local/9780822371465     Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice  By David Scott https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=omens+of+adversity

Dividing the Spoils: Perspectives on Military Collections and the British Empire by Henrietta Lidchi, Stuart Allan, Alan Lester    https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=Henrietta+Lidchi+dividing+the+spoils+

Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica by Deborah Thomas, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0822350688/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_thcv_p1_i1

Spotify playlist featuring Peter Tosh, Equal Rights  Bob Marley, Babylon System Vybz Kartel: Reparations Burning Spear, Days of Slavery And more!  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4wJXGFz7oHaXykSsESDVXM?si=251fe856f567481d

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