![]() ![]() But it’s even more difficult when it comes to history. Knowing how to listen beyond the background music to hear the sounds and stories of those who don’t fit into the “accepted” narrative can be difficult in our own time. Such master narratives lead to the dominance of reactive slogans and movements, such as #makeamericagreatagain and #bluelivesmatter, when Black, Brown, queer, and trans folks and their allies remind the world that their lives do, in fact, matter. Another is that incidents of police and state violence, incidents of domestic terrorism, and white nationalism are the exceptions and not the rule. ![]() One master narrative is the tale we tell about the United States being a welcoming country to immigrants, about how the “bootstrap” mentality enables one to build and sustain a life here. Master narratives become the background music of our lives, undercurrents so ingrained that the violence they often engender is rendered unremarkable. ![]()
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