Our third CSMCH Showcase podcast is now online!
My guest was Kate Ballantyne, who is our resident postdoctoral fellow in modern and contemporary history (you can find out more about her in an autobiographical blog post she wrote earlier this year). In our interview, we talked about the mythologies of the American South, the challenges of writing about activism, and the echoes of the past in today’s Black Lives Matter protests.
Over the course of the conversation, Kate mentioned a number of op-eds, Twitter threads and books, and I’ve included the link to these at the bottom of this blog post.
To listen to the podcast, click on the Audiomack link below or subscribe to our podcast channel (just search for ‘CSMCH Edinburgh’ from your favourite podcast app).
Links:
- Heather Ann Thompson’s article: https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/6/2/21277253/george-floyd-protest-1960s-civil-rights
- Thomas Sugrue’s Twitter thread on 1968-2020 comparisons: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1267175127483105281.html
- David Olusoga’s article on Edward Colston’s statue in Bristol being thrown into the harbour: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/08/edward-colston-statue-history-slave-trader-bristol-protest
- Gregg Michel’s book on the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC): https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781403960108
- An important conversation is happening on Twitter with the hashtag #BlackintheIvory.
- Great article on the significance of protests around George Floyd: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/opinion/george-floyd-protests-race.html
— Emile