Reductio ad Hitlerum?: Carcerality, the U.S. Southern Border, and Historical Memory of World War II
Solicited by the OAH Committee on Marketing and Communications
Saturday, April 4, 2020, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Type: Roundtable Discussion
Tags: Immigration and Internal Migration; Legal and Constitutional; Public History and Memory
Abstract
US lawmakers have a long history of designating immigrants, refugees, asylum-seekers, and communities of color as targets of state incarceration policy and the infrastructure of detention that arises from it. A year after the public discourse of migrant captivity became entangled in a high-profile exchange about the history and memory of the Holocaust, this roundtable reflects on that experience and the dialogue that it opened between the history community, journalists, museum professionals, public officials, and activists.
Session Participants
Chair: Christopher Brick, George Washington University
Chair: Kariann Akemi Yokota, University of Colorado Denver
Panelist: Edna Friedberg, US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Panelist: Andrea Pitzer, Author ONE LONG NIGHT: A GLOBAL HISTORY OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS
Panelist: Anika Walke, Washington University in St. Louis
Panelist: Alice Susan Yang, University of California, Santa Cruz