Welcome to our first episode of 2024! Joining us in the Greenhouse for an MLK Day special, we have Professor Hajar Yazdiha to discuss her book The Struggle for The People's King,
a book that seems to have captured the entire spirit of everything we try to talk about here on Greenhouse Gaslighting when it comes to the strategic use of political rhetoric and social iconography, as well as the manipulation and distortion of collective memory when it comes to our shared history.
Plugs from today's episode
https://www.zinnedproject.org/
https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/
https://www.hajaryazdiha.com/
Check out The Struggle for The People's King:
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691246475/the-struggle-for-the-peoples-king
Referenced Books/Articles/Media from the episode:
Robert Bellah's Civil Religion in America - http://www.robertbellah.com/articles_5.htm
Hajar's piece in the LA Times: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-08-28/march-on-washington-martin-luther-king-racial-progress-black-americans
Civil Racism by Lynn Mie Itagaki
Prophet of Discontent by Jared A. Loggins and Andrew J. DouglasAs always - our links available at
https://linktr.ee/greenhousegaslighting
End: Excerpt from MartinLuther King Jr.'s speech titled
The Three Evils of Society (1987): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8d-IYSM-08