Author: Hajar Yazdiha

Hajar Yazdiha is an assistant professor of Sociology, faculty affiliate of the Equity Research Institute, a 2022-23 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, and a William T. Grant Advanced Quantitative Critical Methods Scholar of the Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, and Mixed Methodologies (2020-23). Yazdiha received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and is a former Turpanjian Postdoctoral Fellow of the Chair in Civil Society and Social Change. Her research examines the mechanisms underlying the politics of inclusion and exclusion as they shape intergroup boundaries, ethno-racial identities and intergroup relations. This work crosses subfields of race and ethnicity, migration, social movements, culture and law using mixed methods including interview, survey, historical and computational text analysis. Her book project is forthcoming in May 2023 with Princeton University Press titled, "The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement." The book examines how a wide range of rivaling social movements across the political spectrum—from the Muslim Rights Movement to the Nativist Movement—deploy competing interpretations of the Civil Rights Movement to make claims around national identity and inclusion.

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., center, leads an anti-Vietnam War demonstratio

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Opinion | Martin Luther King Jr.’s Stance on War and Fighting for Peace Applies Today

“I believe there is a larger story beyond King’s stance on Israel and Palestinians,” Hajar Yazdiha writes. “That story is on King’s views of war—and his courage to stand for peace.”

January 12, 2024

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