ABSTRACT
This chapter concludes the book by highlighting the changing significance of race, rights, and identity in a new era. Drawing together the emergence of global movements against White supremacy, including calls to decolonise institutions, and assert that Black Lives Matter, this chapter nevertheless highlights the ongoing persistence - indeed, resurgence - of racial ideas in the context of populist politics. Responses to the newly opened National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) are examined, leading to a discussion of the complexities of its status as both a site of racial consciousness and a legitimising product of an oppressive national project. Globally, many museums share an inheritance of colonial history and White supremacy. Drawing on a flourishing new intellectual movement in museums internationally, led predominantly by sector professionals of colour, this chapter affirms that a focus on structural racism is a much-needed departure from traditional discourses of cultural diversity, which still render forms of collective Black empowerment as invalid or suspect in contrast to the perceived supremacy of integrative representations. The chapter closes with a call to not only press for sectoral change but also to fundamentally and consciously reshape White self-interests.
