Rethinking Tubman and Jackson

Published: Aug. 18, 2020, noon

b'Harriet Tubman and Andrew Jackson are seminal figures in U.S. history. But how accurate a picture have we been given of them, and what would it mean if Tubman were depicted on U.S. currency? Catherine Squires sees a controversy over a \\u201cpocket monument\\u201d as an opportunity to rethink conventional narratives and reframe U.S. history.\\nHughey and Gonz\\xe1lez-Lesser, eds., Racialized Media: The Design, Delivery, and Decoding of Race and Ethnicity NYU Press, 2020\\nCatherine Squires, The Post-Racial Mystique: Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century NYU Press, 2014\\nThe post Rethinking Tubman and Jackson appeared first on KPFA.'