Unspeakable Spaces racisms past and present on exhibit in Stockholm, or the unaddressable addressed

The denials, displacements, and collective amnesia often associated with Sweden's widespread cultural racism are explored through bringing three unspeakable spaces into conjunction and tension with one another: a "wax cab' inet and anatomical museum" in Stockholm during the 1890s; a resurrection of that same exhibition during 1999; and Stockholm's principal downtown square, which in 1999 was being considered for radical architectual redesign in order to make it more "human." In each instance the taken for granted, the for gotten, the taboo–laden, the literally unsay able, and the absolutely appalingare shown to be mutually enmeshed. [Cultural racism, dis(re)membering, popular imagination, stereotypes, the taken for granted).