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Rewriting the Narrative

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In Chapter Three: Rewriting the Narrative, Lee explores the initiatives that call for the decolonization of museums and address their ties to colonial history. Topics discussed include Decolonize This Place (DTP) and American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), aesthetics of museums, the cultural hierarchies of colonial science, territorial acknowledgement of Indigenous land occupied by cultural institutions, and the work of Cree artist Kent Monkman, and Purépecha artist Patricia Marroquin Norby.

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Shimrit Lee

Shimrit Lee is a writer, curator, and educator. Her research lies at the intersection of visual and cultural studies, postcolonial theory, and critical security studies. Her essays and reviews have been published in a number of cultural journals and art magazines. She completed her PhD in the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at NYU in 2019, and currently teaches at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.