Being the Change that Others Don’t Want: Asserting and Resisting Racial Hierarchies
Channel: AskHistorians
Date: 2020-09-17

This panel examines art and angry words as sites for the enforcement or resistance of entrenched racial hierarchies. 

“Whose streets? Our streets!” is a little bit catchier than “Whose movie premiere? Our movie premiere!” But even that difference shows the power of words to fuel protest movements in any physical or online space. This panel explores how the things we say and the movies we enjoy became embroiled in protests against and for racism in the mid-20th century.
Learn more about this panel at: https://www.askhistorians.com/being-the-change

Featured in this panel are:

"Fascists in Hogtown: Toronto’s Reaction and Resistance to the National Unity Party during the Summer of 1938", by Tyler Wentzell
"Everyone I Don’t Like is Hitler: The Appropriation of Anti-Nazi Axioms by American Fascists, 1944-1949", by Ryan Abt
"Bringing the Millennium to Birmingham: To Kill a Mockingbird and Racial Protest in Alabama’s Magic City", by Megan Hunt

Moderated by Johannes Breit
Captioning courtesy of Knut Ola Naastad Strøm

This panel is part of the AskHistorians 2020 Digital Conference. For more Conference content, please go to: https://www.askhistorians.com/2020-digital-conference