The Past Is Not Dead Facts, Fictions, and Enduring Racial Stereotypes Allan Pred Table of Contents		$26.00 Paper ISBN: 0-8166-4406-3 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4406-3 $70.50 Cloth ISBN: 0-8166-4405-5 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4405-6
A study of the genealogy and perpetuation of stereotyping. Through one figure—Badin, an eighteenth-century Afro-Caribbean slave given to the Swedish royal court—Allan Pred shows how stereotypes endure through the repeated confusion of facts and fiction, providing a highly original perspective on the perpetuation of racializing stereotypes in the West. In the first of two interlocking montages inspired by Walter Benjamin, the book focuses on Badin, who died in Stockholm in 1822, and representations of his life that appeared from the 1840s through the 1990s. In the second montage, Pred brings the late nineteenth century and the present into play, shifting to urban sites where racialized stereotyping is on public display, including a museum that has exhibited the bodily remains of the African male. Intriguing for its insight into the workings of race and immigration on the national imagination of a European nation—but with implications and ramifications far beyond that specific example—The Past Is Not Dead is a bold inquiry into both the collective memory and the amnesia of those who stereotype versus the personal remembering and forgetting of the stereotyped. “Pred’s work is a courageous assault on the ‘unspeakable unspoken.’ As a case study of historically and geographically specific racisms, the book demands to be read, its message taken to heart.” —Cultural Geographies “A must read for those interested in the pervasiveness of racism and racial stereotypes in northern Europe.” —Biography "The Past Is not Dead is a brilliant and original contribution, a passionate and courageous exploration of a deep vein of pain and shame, and a compelling read." —Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, author of Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage Allan Pred is professor of geography at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of numerous books, most recently Even in Sweden: Racisms, Racialized Spaces and the Popular Geographical Imagination and Recognizing European Modernities: A Montage of the Present. 288 pages | 5 halftones, 4 line art | 5 7/8 x 9 | 2004 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Past and Present Tense: Perpetuations of the Preseen (and Preknown) Previewed Part I. The Remembering and Forgetting of Badin: A Montage of (F)acts Fictionalized and Fictions (F)actualized 1. Foremontage: Representations of the Racialized Other 2. Entrances | Beginnings | Namings 3. Advances(?) | Love(making)s? | (Anti)Climaxes(?) 4. Re Reading | Rereadings | Reading Numbers Numerously 5. Memory Etchings | Memory Diggings | Memories in Constellation 6. Geography Lessons | Night and Day Weather | Navigating Darkness and Lightness 7. Departure Tears | Exits | Endings Epilogue Part II. The Unaddressable Addressed: A Montage of Racisms on Exhibit 8. Foremontage: Unspeakable Spaces 9. On Exhibit: Hartkopf’s Unspeakable Space, or Past Moment as Forenow 10. On Exhibit: Unspeakable Spaces of 1999, or Forenow and Present in Constellation Notes Index

 

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