Myth Making in America: Hajar Yazdiha

OCCUPY!: An Unfinished Uprising · Aug 28, 2025 · 40m

We discuss the role of collective memory in the myth-making of American exceptionalism.

Hajar's civic action toolkit recommendations are:

1) Advocate

2) Relate

3) Create

Hajar Yazdiha is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences and the author of The Struggle for the People's King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement.

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