The Politics of Martin Luther King's Legacy

In this episode we are pleased to welcome Dr. Hajar Yazdiha, who is the author of an insightful new book on the contentious politics of both ‘making’ and ‘claiming’ the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights movement more broadly. Dr. Yazdiha’s book, The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement, advances our understanding of these evolving, and ongoing, political processes which seek to make meaning out of the history inherited from the Civil Rights era. Dr. Yazdiha is an assistant professor of sociology and a faculty affiliate of the Equity Research Institute at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. We are quite fortunate to have had the opportunity to discuss this important book with her on the show. Thanks, as always, for your support.