Both the US and South Africa have witnessed efforts to memorialize the experience of victims of white supremacy and the history of the struggle for Black liberation. Despite ongoing initiatives to “unsettle” local memorial culture, remnants of white supremacist public culture continue to intrude on the commemorative landscape in post-apartheid South Africa and the post-civil rights US. Historian Alex Lichtenstein describes these struggles over public history and memory in these two contexts.

Alex Lichtenstein is a professor at Indiana University in Bloomington, USA.

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