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Protest, Decolonize This Place, 2018

 File — Box: 35, Folder: 40

Scope and Contents

This folder includes protest materials from actions at the Museum. Partially in response to the Museum hiring a white curator of African Art Decolonize This Place called on the Museum to participate in the formation of a Decolonization Commission that would address injustices (paraphrased from the flier). They called on the Museum to make a Land Acknowledgement, the diversify curatorial and executive staff, a decolonial inventory, an upgrade in working conditions of ground staff, the replacement of David Berliner, undertaking of de-gentrification, and to boycott/divest in recognition of Brooklynites' role in the settler movement in Palestine.

Dates

  • 2018

Extent

1 folder/s

Repository Details

Part of the Brooklyn Museum Archives Repository

Contact:
Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn NY 11238