Psychology, History and Social Justice

This special issue of the Journal of Social Issues focuses on different ways that social history and psychology—always co-constructing each other—matter. Focused on major events and social movements of the twentieth century, we highlight work that psychologists have done that allow us, as a field, to take seriously the relationships between social-level events and individuals’ identities and self-representations, emotional lives and well-being, approaches to social justice and collective action, motivations and accomplishments. The individual and collective pursuit of social justice makes links between history and psychology visible along with their implications for relations within and between social groups.

INTRODUCTION
Past as Prologue: How History Becomes Psychologically Present
Andrea G. Hunter and Abigail J. Stewart 219

SECTION I: REPRESENTING HISTORY: HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Historicizing Injustice: The Museum of Memory and Human Rights, Santiago, Chile
Susan Opotow 229

Continuities and Discontinuities in Human Rights Violations: Historically Situating the Psychosocial Effects of Migration
M. Brinton Lykes and Rachel M. Hershberg 244

We Made History: Collective Memory and the Legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen
Andrea G. Hunter and Alethea Rollins 264

SECTION II: COLLECTIVE MEMORY, HISTORY AND CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITIES

Sutured Identities in Jewish Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
Roy Schwartzman 279

How Politics Become Personal: Sociohistorical Events and their Meanings in People’s Lives
Abigail J. Stewart, David G. Winter, Donna Henderson-King, and Eaaron Henderson-King 294

History as a Resource: Effects of Narrative Constructions of Group History on Intellectual Performance
Nida Bikmen 309

Assessing theImpact of “The Collapse” on the Organization and Content of Autobiographical Memory in the Former Soviet Union
Veronika V. Nourkova and Norman R. Brown 324

SECTION III: (IN) JUSTICE AND HISTORIES OF RESISTANCE: INTERSECTION OF ATTITUDES, EMOTION AND THE BODY
Remembrance, Responsibility, and Reparations: The Use of Emotions in Talk about the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot
Ronni Michelle Greenwood 338

Processing Cultural Trauma: Intergenerational Effects of the Japanese American Incarceration
Donna K. Nagata, Jackie H. J. Kim, and Teresa U. Nguyen 356

Power in History: Contrasting Theoretical Approaches to Intergroup Dialogue
Phillip L. Hammack and Andrew Pilecki 371

The Body in Revolt: The Impact and Legacy of Second Wave Corporeal Embodiment
Breanne Fahs 386

Psychology, History, and Social Justice: Concluding Reflections
Daniel Perlman, Andrea G. Hunter, and Abigail J. Stewart 402

SECTION IV: 2012 SPSSI KURT LEWIN AWARD ADDRESS

Introduction to Miles Hewstone’s SPSSI Kurt Lewin Award Address
Louis A. Penner 414

Consequences of Diversity for Social Cohesion and Prejudice: The Missing Dimension of Intergroup Contact
Miles Hewstone 417

Andrea G. Hunter is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies and the Director of the School of Health and Human Sciences Office of Diversity and Inclusion at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.?Her research interests focus on African American families, and the influences of race, gender, social class, and culture on the life course, families, and well-being.

Abigail J. Stewart is Sandra Schwartz Tangri Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. Her current research examines educated women's lives and personalities; women's movement activism both in the US and globally; gender, race and generation; and institutional change in the academy.