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SUMMARY:Hajar Yazdiha: in person at Back Cove Books
DESCRIPTION:The Struggle for the People's King\nMonday July 31st\, 2023 
 @ 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM\n\nJoin us at Back Cove Books for an evening of conv
 ersation with Dr. Hajar Yazdiha\, author of The Struggle for the Peopleâ
 €™s King\, and Shay Stewart-Bouley of Black Girl in Maine Media.&nbsp\;\
 n\nThe Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Mem
 ory of the Civil Rights Movement\, by Dr. Hajar Yazdiha\, examines how a
  wide range of rivaling social movements across the political spectrum d
 eploy competing interpretations of the Civil Rights Movement to make cla
 ims around national identity and inclusion. Comparing how rival movement
 s constituted by minority and majority groups with a range of identities
  — racial\, gender\, sexuality\, religious\, moral\, political — bat
 tle over collective memory\, the book documents how the misuses of the r
 acial past erode multicultural democracy.\n\nDr. Yazdiha’s research an
 d voice\, coupled with Shay Stewart-Bouley’s decades of experience wor
 king at the intersection of race relations and social justice\, ensures 
 an evening of powerful discussion of timely and relevant issues that dir
 ectly shape the current American political and social landscape.\n\nNo R
 SVP required. Back Cove Books is located at 651 Forest Ave\, Unit 1 Port
 land\, ME\n\nA portion of sales from the event will be donated to Commun
 ity Change Inc.&nbsp\;\n\nAbout Dr. Yazdiha\nHajar Yazdiha is an Assista
 nt Professor of Sociology\, faculty affiliate of the Equity Research Ins
 titute\, and a 2023-2025 CIFAR Global Azrieli Scholar. Dr. Yazdiha recei
 ved her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina\, Chape
 l Hill and is a former Ford Postdoctoral Fellow and Turpanjian Postdocto
 ral Fellow of the Chair in Civil Society and Social Change.\n\nDr. Yazdi
 ha’s research provides new insights into the relationship between macr
 o-level institutional structures\, meso-level group processes of collect
 ive identity formation and collective behavior\, and micro-level percept
 ions\, emotions\, and mental health. Through her research\, Dr. Yazdiha 
 works to understand how systems of inequality become entrenched and how 
 groups develop strategies to resist\, contest\, and manifest alternative
  futures.\n\nAbout Shay Stewart-Bouley:\nIn the early-2000s\, Shay moved
  from her native Chicago to Maine and\, as a Black woman living in one o
 f the least diverse spaces in the United States\, found herself writing 
 regularly about race relations\, social justice\, and white supremacy in
  such publications at the Portland Phoenix (where she had a monthly colu
 mn\, “Diverse City” for more than a decade)\, the Portland Press Her
 ald\, the Journal Tribune\, and DigPortland.\n\nShay is a prolific blogg
 er at her award-winning website/blog Black Girl in Maine Media\, where r
 ace is a major theme but also other social and political issues\, as wel
 l as sometimes just commentary on daily life as a Black\, middle-aged wo
 man in a world where these traits frequently are not valued. Shay’s wr
 iting also has been featured in a variety of national publications as we
 ll as several anthologies. In November 2016\, she gave a TEDx talk entit
 led “Inequity\, Injustice… Infection.” In June 2021\, she was elec
 ted to the Portland\, Maine Charter Commission. Shay is the Executive Di
 rector of the oldest continuously operating anti-racism organization in 
 the nation\, Community Change Inc. (based in Boston)\, where she still w
 orks today.&nbsp\;
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LOCATION:651 Forest Ave\, Unit 1\, Portland\,  Maine  04101\,  US
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