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To accomplish these goals, Gallas, Perry and their contributors have devised six general axioms: Comprehensive Content, Race and Identity Awareness, Institutional Investment, Community Involvement, Visitor Experiences and Expectations, and Staff Training (p. xv). Each of the eight subsequent essays deals with aspects of one or more of these axioms. In ‘The Role of Race and Racial Identity in Interpretation’ for example, the editors discuss the contemporary place and understanding of race in the United States. Dismissing public displays of overt racism, Gallas and Perry concentrate on examining the meanings and effects of unconscious racial bias, institutional racism and structural racism. In doing so, they also explore the concept of ‘racial baggage’ and the resistance to the idea of ‘white privilege’. Because the issues surrounding slavery and race remain emotionally fraught and challenge ‘narratives at the core of identity for staff and visitors alike’, Gallas and Perry urge museums and historical sites to intellectually and emotionally prepare their staffs. In another essay, ‘Developing Competent and Confident Interpreters’, Patricia Brooks continues the emphasis on preparing staff for their encounters with the public. Beginning with the suggestion of in-depth training sessions, Brooks reminds institutions that their interpreters must first examine their own attitudes about race, slavery, and the narrative being presented. Interpreters must also be certain of the support of their institutions and supervisors. Finally, interpreters must accept the fact that any honest discussion of slavery is inherently uncomfortable. Although both museum management and interpreters generally define a successful visitor experience as one in which most patrons emerge ‘smiling, happy, and saying that they had fun’, Brooks reminds her readers that coming to grips with slavery is unlikely to produce this version of a successful visitor response. Interpreting Slavery at Museums and Historical Sites is unlikely to become a bestseller. Its focus is on museums and historical sites that have a particular interest in American slavery – and those museums and historical sites that do not. It is a guide to encourage both categories in their placement of slavery within the broader context of American history and with a solid, scholarly foundation, to introduce the general public to slavery’s significance in that history. In the Foreword, Rex M. Ellis, Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs at the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, says: