Commentary: Immigrant communities are indebted to the civil rights movement. But when will they grapple with their own anti-Blackness?
by Hajar Yazdiha, Los Angeles Times
Aug 31, 2023
3 minutes
Sixty years ago this week, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom indelibly etched the civil rights movement into our nation’s collective memory through the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech about a dream of justice for our collective future.
As a sociologist, I have studied the uses and misuses of King’s memory over the past 40 years. I witnessed just how deeply immigrant communities like my own are shaped by and indebted to the legacies of the civil rights movement. More powerfully, I found that learning about and grappling with the racial history of the
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