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Thursday, November 2nd, 2023

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Hajar Yazdiha is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences and the author of The Struggle for the People\\u2019s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement. We discuss the role of collective memory in the myth-making of American exceptionalism.\\xa0

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Collective memory is the way that we remember history and that becomes central to our idea of who we are as a people. It\\u2019s a process of storytelling and the most central stories to who we are as a people. The civil rights movement has become one of the central collective memories in America\'s story of both who it is and who it wants to be. However, careful examination of the record reveals that the civil rights movement was a political project that was meant to actually dismantle multicultural democracy. Further, as the collective memory of Dr. King became sanitized and whitewashed, his legacy carried a lot of moral legitimacy, and his moral symbolic authority became ripe for manipulation.

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Credits:\\xa0

Host: Mila Atmos\\xa0

Guests: Hajar Yazdiha

Executive Producer: Mila Atmos

Producer: Zack Travis