Masum Momoya, a former curator for the Smithsonian Institution who now works in philanthropy funding the arts, commented: Most of the cultural institutions that we have today were born out of either projects of colonialism, projects of nationalism and nation building, or education in a very narrow sense. This moment is calling on them to do some internal work to decolonize themselves as institutions, to confront their own racism and systemic oppression, and to grapple with things like repatriation of artifacts and things that were taken as part of the projects of colonization, missionization,
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