Episode 2 IS PUBLIC MEMORY OF THE HOLOCAUST PRIVILEGED OVER HISTORIES OF COLONIAL VIOLENCE AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE?

Professor Steven Robins (sociology and social anthropology, Stellenbosch University) and Dr Lwazi Lushaba (poltical studies, University of Cape Town) debated whether or not comparisons between the experiences of Jewish people and Black people are of any moral or intellectual use. Various themes emerged including a debate about whether or not Dr Lushaba is essentialising whiteness in his insistence that the Holocaust is to be understood as "white people killing other white people". Profe...