Museums and Difference

". . . fascinating and probing treatments of issues that press on both museum workers and folklorists.October 15, 2008"-Lee Haring, Brooklyn College (Emeritus)
"Museum and Difference is about the role that museums play in shaping the stories that we tell about who we are and how we are different from other people. It is an interesting subject.Jan. 23, 2009"-Matt Shinn, Museum Practice Magazine
"[D]emonstrates both the centrality and rapidly changing significance of difference in museum practice and poses a number of critical questions for future scholarship, such as, for example, whether or not aesthetic distinctions can ever be employed in museums in a manner that does not privilege the identity of one or another social group. -David O'Brien, University of Illinois at Urban"-Champaign