Issue 81

Editors Introduction
Judith DeGroat and David Kinkela

INTERVENTIONS
Mumia Abu-Jamal and the Social Wage of Whiteness
Van Gosse and Kavita Philip

FEATURES
Womens Liberation and the Left in New Haven, Connecticut 1968-72
Amy Kesselman
Citizens of the Past?: Olvera Street and the Construction of Race and Memory in 1930s Los Angeles
Phoebe S. Kropp
We Saved the City: Black Struggles for Educational Equality in Boston, 1960-1976
Jeanne F. Theoharis

PUBLIC HISTORY
A Cultural Conundrum? Old Monuments and New Regimes: The Voortrekker Monument as Symbol of Afrikaner Power in a PostApartheid South Africa
Albert Grundlingh
The Politics of Memory in the Berlin Republic
Mary Nolan

REFLECTIONS
Debra E. Bernhardt: Activist, Archivist, Historian
Danny Walkowitz
The Making of a Practical Radical: An Interview with Debra E. Bernhardt
Excerpted and edited by Janet Wells Greene

(RE)VIEWS

Singing Once Again on Mermaid Avenue
Review of Billy Bragg and Wilco, Mermaid Avenue and Mermaid Avenue, vol. II
David Kinkela

Monumental Acts: American Public Sculpture and the Representation of Race, Gender, and Class
Review of: Melissa Dabakis, Visualizing Labor in American Sculpture:
Monuments, Manliness, and the Work Ethic, 1880-1935, and Kirk Savage, Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America.
Dianna L. Linden
ABUSABLE PAST
R.J. Lambrose