{"id":153,"date":"2009-04-10T11:22:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T15:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itech.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/?p=153"},"modified":"2009-04-10T11:22:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T15:22:31","slug":"peires-mr-jeff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/2009\/04\/10\/peires-mr-jeff\/","title":{"rendered":"Peires, Dr. Jeff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small\"><strong> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><a href=\"?p=76\">Archives<\/a> |\u00a0<a href=\"?p=85\">Interview Transcripts<\/a> | <a href=\"?p=78\">Maps<\/a> | <a href=\"?p=77\">Photos<\/a> | <a href=\"?page_id=567\" target=\"_self\">Links<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><a href=\"?p=94\">South Africa<\/a> | <a href=\"?p=95\">Mississippi<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p><!--    --><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[endif]--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Interview with Dr. Jeff Peires<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a title=\"peires-mr-jeff-8-10-2008-interview-transcript.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/files\/2009\/04\/peires-mr-jeff-8-10-2008-interview-transcript.pdf\">Click here to download the transcript of this interview.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>General Topic of Interview: Memorialization<\/p>\n<p>Dates: 10  August, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Location: King William\u2019s Town, South   Africa<\/p>\n<p>Narrator: Dr. Jeff Peires<\/p>\n<p>Interviewer: James Chapnick<\/p>\n<p>Transcriber: James Chapnick<\/p>\n<p>Biographical Information:<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jeff Peires is a historian born in Cape Town.\u00a0 He studied at both the University of Cape Town and the University of Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>Interview Information:<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Peires speaks about South African history.\u00a0 He discusses representation of history during and since apartheid in general, in school curricula, and in museums.\u00a0 He discusses the general South African preference to not do away with the symbols of others but rather to add new symbols and memorials.\u00a0 He gives his opinion of street renaming, and details the post-apartheid commemoration of Steve Biko, relations between activists of the anti-apartheid and\u00a0 Civil Rights movements.\u00a0 He also discussed the role of heritage tourism in local communities, and situated three specifically: <a href=\"?page_id=567\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Robben Island<\/span><\/a>, the <a href=\"?page_id=567\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Amathole Museum<\/span><\/a>, and the Bhisho Massacre Site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archives |\u00a0Interview Transcripts | Maps | Photos | Links South Africa | Mississippi Interview with Dr. Jeff Peires Click here to download the transcript of this interview. General Topic of Interview: Memorialization Dates: 10 August, 2008 Location: King William\u2019s Town, South Africa Narrator: Dr. Jeff Peires Interviewer: James Chapnick Transcriber: James Chapnick Biographical Information: Dr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}