EP 26 - Why are people around the world knocking down old statues? Adam Hochschild explains
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
Society & Culture
Publication Date |
Jun 23, 2020
Episode Duration |
00:23:54
In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from Adam Hochschild, a prominent historian, journalist, and a best selling author who wrote King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa, among many other books. He's also a lecturer in Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. Professor Hochschild gives us his take on the efforts around the world to topple statues and other monuments that memorialize historical figures known for their brutality and racism, including the campaign in Belgium to remove statues of their former king, King Leopold II, who plundered central Africa, leading to the deaths of millions of people. For a transcript visit https://belonging.berkeley.edu/whobelongs/adam-hochschild-toppling-statues

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