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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Yazdiha shows how the corrupted memory of the Civil Rights Movement now allows it to be used against itself, inviting broader reflection about the place of collective memory in democratic politics. The book also makes a strong case forteaching history comprehensively and unflinchingly. . . . In the political cautions that story makes, [
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Struggle for the People's King is a book that will be revealing to students and useful to activists." * Choice *
"Yazdiha demonstrates how the United States’ collective future is at stake in the stories Americans tell themselves to rationalize, legitimize, or justify their political claims. Based on assiduous research with sophisticated mixed theories laid out in a methodological appendix." * Library Journal *
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The Struggle for the People’s King offers a new set of tools for examining meaning construction processes in efforts to bring about or resist social change. . . . Yazdiha’s ideas extend far beyond a focus on collective memory related to a specific historical figure. Her work opens the door to analyses that give close attention to how culture and structured inequalities constrain and enable social change and efforts to remedy injustice and inequality."
---Rory McVeigh, Social Forces
