Melania’s Hat, Plantation Weddings, and Indochic. Why do people long for a time period they’ve never experienced? Over the course of five episodes, IDE Impolite Conversation will explore romanticizing colonialism in popular culture. Lezli kicks off this theme with a conversation with Caitlin Faulkes, British-based psychologist specializing in nostalgia. She conducted one of the first pieces of empirical research on historical nostalgia and developed the first index to measure personality traits associated with historical nostalgia. FULL EPISODE ON YOUTUBE

  

Relevant and Recommended Reads: 

• It Was Cultural Anxiety That Drove White, Working-Class Voters to Trump
• When Was America Great? The Answer Depends On Your Age
• Lindsey Graham, references ‘the good old days of segregation’ 

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Podcast Team = Lezli Levene Harvell (Host & Executive Producer) / Justin Bates (Sound Engineer) 

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