Research Catalog

Title

Diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion in museums / edited by Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Laura L. Lott.

Publication

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2019]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cole, Johnnetta B.
• Lott, Laura L.
• American Alliance of Museums, sponsoring body.

Description

xi, 170 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"In this edited volume, thought leaders in the museum field contemplate the field's struggles with diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion. For the first time, these watershed essays, keynote addresses, and data are gathered in one resource, so we can learn from recent history and build on these leaders' work in the next decade."--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

American Alliance of Museums

Subjects

• Museums > Social aspects
• Museums and minorities
• Museums > Social aspects > United States
• Museums and minorities > United States
• Social integration > United States
• Museum visitors > United States
• United States

Note

• "American Alliance of Museums"--Page ii.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-152) and index.

Contents

Preface -- Part 1. A call to action. Flies in the buttermilk : museums, diversity, and the will to change / Lonnie G. Bunch III -- Museums, racism, and the inclusiveness chasm / Carlos Tortolero -- Museums, diversity, and social value / Johnnetta Betsch Cole -- Women's locker room talk : gender and leadership in museums / Kaywin Feldman -- Part 2. Diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion strategies. Twin threats : how ignorance and instrumentality create inequality and injustice / Darren Walker -- The leadership imperative : diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion as strategy / Laura L. Lott -- History that promotes understanding in a diverse society / Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko -- Pipeline is a verb : field notes on the Spelman College Curatorial Studies Pilot Program / Andrea Barnwell Brownlee -- Museums and ADA at 25 : progress and looking ahead / Beth Bienvenu -- Catalyzing inclusion : steps toward sustainability in museums / Natanya Khashan -- It's time to stop and ask "why?" / Lisa Sasaki -- Part 3. The necessity and power of first-person voices. Much has been taken, but all is not lost : the restorative promise of first-voice representation / Eduardo Díaz -- No longer hiding in plain sight / William Underwood Eiland -- The National Museum of the American Indian : whence the "art object"? / W. Richard West Jr. -- Part 4. Personal journeys. Disability and innovation : the universal benefits of inclusive design / Haben Girma -- Maybe this time : a personal journey toward racial equity in museums / Elaine Heumann Gurian -- Museum musings : then and now / Cecile Shellman -- Appendix A. Diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion definitions -- Appendix B. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Art Museum Staff Demographic Survey -- Appendix C. Museum board leadership report excerpt : the people -- Appendix D. Selected resources.

Call Number

JFE 19-4562

ISBN

• 9781538118634
• 1538118637
• 9781538118627
• 1538118629
• 9781538118641 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2018046109
• 15747526

OCLC

1076377495

Title

Diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion in museums / edited by Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Laura L. Lott.

Publisher

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

American Alliance of Museums

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-152) and index.

Added Author

Cole, Johnnetta B., editor.

Lott, Laura L., editor.

American Alliance of Museums, sponsoring body.

Other Form:

Online version: Diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion in museums. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2019] 9781538118641 (DLC) 2018056403

Other Standard Identifier

15747526

Research Call Number

JFE 19-4562