KPFA - Against the Grain

Rethinking Tubman and Jackson


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Harriet Tubman and Andrew Jackson are seminal figures in U.S. history. But how accurate a picture have we been given of them, and what would it mean if Tubman were depicted on U.S. currency? Catherine Squires sees a controversy over a “pocket monument” as an opportunity to rethink conventional narratives and reframe U.S. history. (Encore presentation.)

Hughey and González-Lesser, eds., Racialized Media: The Design, Delivery, and Decoding of Race and Ethnicity NYU Press, 2020

Catherine Squires, The Post-Racial Mystique: Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century NYU Press, 2014

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