{"product_id":"blunt-instruments-book-kristin-ann-hass-9780807013328","title":"Blunt Instruments","description":"\u003cb\u003eA field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States-and how to reimagine a more deeply shared cultural infrastructure for the future\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Cultural infrastructure has been designed to maintain structures of inequality, and while it doesn't seem to be explicitly about race, it often is. \u003ci\u003eBlunt Instruments\u003c\/i\u003e helps readers identify, contextualize, and name elements of our everyday landscapes and cultural practices that are designed to seem benign or natural but which, in fact, work tirelessly to tell us vital stories about who we are, how we came to be, and who belongs.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Examining landmark moments such as the erection of the first American museum and Colin Kaepernick's kneeling pledge of allegiance, historian Kristin Hass explores the complicated histories of sites of cultural infrastructure, such as-\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e the American Museum of Natural History\u003cbr\u003e the Bridge to Freedom in Selma\u003cbr\u003e the Washington Monument\u003cbr\u003e Mount Auburn Cemetery\u003cbr\u003e Kehinde Wiley's 2019 sculpture \u003ci\u003eRumors of War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e the Victory Highway\u003cbr\u003e the Alamo Cenotaph\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With sharp analysis and a broad lens, Hass makes the undeniable case that understanding what cultural infrastructure is, and the deep and broad impact that it has, is essential to understanding how structures of inequity are maintained and how they might be dismantled.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49747076317457,"sku":"NGR9780807013328","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007770001681,"sku":"NIN9780807013328","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0807013323.jpg?v=1750746433","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/blunt-instruments-book-kristin-ann-hass-9780807013328","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}