Focusing on the neighborhood of Bushwick from the post–World War II (WWII) era to the onset of the neighborhood’s gentrification, this paper traces the fundamental significance of race in the policy ...decisions that led to the evolution of Bushwick from a vibrant middle-class community to one of concentrated poverty and blight by the end of the twentieth century. Drawing on firsthand accounts, senate hearings, court trials, media accounts, as well as the secondary literature, this paper shows how policy actions and inaction led to the inevitable destruction in the neighborhood during the blackout of 1977. Although the blackout marks one of the most turbulent periods in the neighborhood’s history, the community’s resilience is accentuated throughout the destruction and its aftermath. Today, as Bushwick’s residents face a new threat in the form of gentrification, this paper seeks to situate this contemporary development within the historical and ongoing significance of race in urban studies.
Some historians of Asian memory, like Paul A Cohen revisit the historical record in the context Of popular memory, examining the perspectives of participants in historical events against the formal ...record and mythologising of the period to re-contextualise and provide new insights into the proceedings and into human nature. These historians investigate the differences between popular and formal history to reveal something new in both. In much the same way, Machiko Kyö's cocoon and Fumiyo Kono's In T"is Corner of the World rewrite his- tory to tell us the story of those on the other side, people Who tend to exist in the background Of the historical record and the stories we form out of that record. While we Often see the battles Of the Second World War play out on screens in films like Battle of Okinawa and in the pages Of manga such as Onward towards Our Noble Deaths, less often are we afforded a glimpse into the women left behind Who somehow kept moving forward as the world around them was upended.
Communism, Nationalism and Ethnic Cleansing after the Second World War. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Den spezifischen regionalen Ablauf der Ausweisungen, der von ...Kompetenzwirrwarr, gegensätzlichen Interessen und Maßnahmen auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen der Verwaltung gekennzeichnet war; die mit großen Schwierigkeiten verbundene, chaotisch verlaufende Wiederbesiedlung der "wiedergewonnen Gebiete", in der erschwerend auch die sprachliche und kulturelle Heterogenität der Siedler und deren unterschiedliche Motivation zum Tragen kam; die komplizierte, letztendlich gescheiterte ethnische Überprüfung der Bevölkerung; das zeitweilige Zusammenleben der auszuweisenden deutschen Bevölkerung und der neu Angesiedelten; die Situation der jüdischen Holocaust-Überlebenden, welche im Vergleich zu den anderen ethnischen Minderheiten zunächst besser gestellt waren; die von den regionalen und staatlichen Behörden eingeleiteten Assimilationsmaßnahmen und schließlich die Maßnahmen, um auch alle deutschen kulturellen Spuren verschwinden zu lassen.
Collective memory refers to the memories that individuals have as members of the groups to which they belong, whether small (family, school) or large (political party, nation). Membership in some ...groups can form a strong part of a person's individual identity. Collective memory is history as people remember it; it is not formal history, because the "memories" of a group are often contradicted by historical fact. Although collective memory is held within individuals, it has rarely been studied by psychologists, because they have concentrated on studying the learning of individual events (such as word lists) in the laboratory or retrieving events of one's life (autobiographical memory). Three facets of collective memory are the focus of this article. First, collective memory can be a body of knowledge about a topic. However, this knowledge base may change over generations of a people. Second, collective memory often portrays an image of a people, and often this image arises from the group's origin story or charter. Third, collective memory is a process; collective remembering can reveal disputes and contestations about how the past should be remembered. One useful purpose of collective memory studies is to capture how different groups and societies remember their history and to discern their shared perspective on the world and how such perspectives differ among groups.
Public Significance Statement
Collective memory is historical memory, or individuals' memories that reflect the groups to which they belong. Understanding a nation's collective memories helps to understand their perspective. For example, in the United States, the debate about removing Civil War statues in the South is a debate over how that war should be remembered. Collective memory suffuses many debates within and between groups.
The “pragmatic pacifist” tradition, exemplified by the transition of many peace activists in the 1930s to critical support for the Allied war effort during World War II, can provide a nuanced path ...for Western peace activists in responding to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This essay examines how several voices of the American peace movement have addressed this situation, offering a variety of levels of critical support to Ukraine's fight for self‐defense and the US involvement in the conflict.
This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of the period's most distinguished historians. The volume brings together the ...most important and influential aspects of Ian Kershaw's research on the Holocaust for the first time. The writings are arranged in three sections-Hitler and the Final Solution, popular opinion and the Jews in Nazi Germany, and the Final Solution in historiography-and Kershaw provides an introduction and a closing section on the uniqueness of Nazism.
Kershaw was a founding historian of the social history of the Third Reich, and he has throughout his career conducted pioneering research on the societal causes and consequences of Nazi policy. His work has brought much to light concerning the ways in which the attitudes of the German populace shaped and did not shape Nazi policy. This volume presents a comprehensive, multifaceted picture both of the destructive dynamic of the Nazi leadership and of the attitudes and behavior of ordinary Germans as the persecution of the Jews spiraled into total genocide.
Matthew shares about her project The UNREMEMBERED: Indian Soldiers of World War II. With family photos, the multimedia installation will include a "wall" of 3D laser-cut crystals of the photographs ...that she has collected. Each photo is clearly visible, and the three-dimensionality brings the images to life, yet they are ghostly and inaccessible. The work will expand the shared narrative of South Asia's complicated history - deeply rooted in colonial history - that has been in upheaval for more than seventy years. The installation will make this history accessible to a larger audience, to pique their curiosity and spark the viewers' interest in the sacrifices of these volunteers. The work also will beg the question of who else is not acknowledged.
PDF
