Memory Lane the Podcast was created and is hosted by Alexa Gonzalez and Dani Dones. Theme song by Dani Dones. Our executive producer is Jorge Castro. Memory Studies is an academic field that emerged in the 20th-century, focusing on the study of memory as a tool for remembering. 

The struggle about who gets to be remembered in history is really a space of resistance about who gets to be valued. In this episode, Alexa and Dani talk about the concept of sites of memory in the context of how migrants that cross the Unites States-Mexico border through the Sonoran desert are remembered and how 9/11 is a site of national mourning. 

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Who is Dayani Cristal? Dir. Monroe, Mark, Marc A. Silver, Gael García Bernal, et al. Kino Lorber, 2014.

Nora, Pierre. Between Memory and History: Les Lieux De Mémoire. Oxford UP, 1994. Print.

"State of Exception Opens in New York City, Thursday February 2nd, 2017." Undocumented Migration Project (2017)Web.

Sturken, Marita. "The Objects that Lived: The 9/11 Museum and Material Transformation." Memory Studies 9.1 (2016): 13-26. CrossRef. Web.

Sturken, Marita "Tourism and "Sacred Ground"." Tourists of History. US: Duke University Press, 2007. Print.