Episode 31: The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion: Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement
Under the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. the 1960s civil rights movement achieved far reaching legal and political changes. University of Southern California sociologist Hajar Yazdiha points out...
Episode 30: Confederate Monuments and the Fight for Racial Justice
Despite the removal of scores of prominent monuments to the Confederacy the vast majority remain firmly in place. For communities to make informed decisions about the future of these...
Episode 29: Mexican Americans and the Memory of the US-Mexico War
With the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the US-Mexico War, Mexican Americans became the first non-white population to become US citizens. University of Texas at San Antonio...
Episode 28: Memorials and Public Feeling in America
Americans are living in an age of frenzied memorial making, argues University of Texas at Dallas art and cultural historian Erika Doss. We saturate the public landscape with memorials...
Episode 27: Remembering Emmett Till
Staring down at the distorted and barely recognizable remains of her fourteen-year-old son is Mamie Till supported by her financé Gene Mobley who gazes directly at the camera. This...
Episode 26: Lynching, Black Culture and Memory
Beginning in 1880s Africans Americans became the targets of a lynching craze that claimed thousands of lives. In Beyond the Rope: The Impact of Lyching on Black Culture and...
Episode 25: Transitional Justice and Memory in Cambodia
Cambodia has often been cast as a broken, amnesiac nation, unable to confront the memory of the horrors it experienced during the Khmer Rouge era. How did these assumptions...
Episode 24: Remembering the System: Enforced Prostitution by the Japanese Military in Indonesia
The system of enforced prostitution by the Japanese military went unpunished and unexamined for decades after the Asia-Pacific War. International recognition only began in 1991 when Korean survivor Kim...
Episode 23: Culture, Urban Development and the Memory of the Gwangju Uprising in South Korea
In May 1980 the city of Gwangju in South Korea erupted in violence. Shocked by the brutal suppression of student protests against the threat of renewed dictatorship, the citizens...
Episode 22: Bolsonaro and the Memory of Dictatorship in Brazil
In 1964 the military seized power in Brazil, overthrowing the democratically elected government of João Goulart. The military ruled Brazil for the next 21 years relying on increasingly repressive...
Episode 21: Memory Activism in Serbia: Remembering the Wars of the 1990s in Yugoslavia
The wars that led to the breakup of Yugoslavia stretched across the 1990s unleashing a level of destruction and human devastation not seen in Europe since World War II. ...
Episode 20: Entangled Memories of Partition in Modern South Asia
The partition of British India was a two step process. First in 1947, Pakistan and India became independent nations. For over the next twenty years, however, a very uneasy...
