Mickey McElya
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
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doubt in my abilities as a historian.
I am someone who has spent my career writing about the ramifications of representations of slavery or the misrepresentations of slavery over time and the effect that has on our politics.
I include among my specialties African-American history, African-American women's history in particular.
And I was learning that that protest happened the same day for the first time in 2009.
Someone else with a long relationship to this world is President Donald Trump.
And you write that it's no coincidence that his path to the presidency actually ran through beauty pageants.
And it starts on that same boardwalk where this book begins, where this protest begins.
Take us back to Atlantic City in the 1980s.
A lot of us know this history, but it has been erased from our memory because there's just been so much that has happened since then with President Trump.
But how did his involvement begin?
His involvement with the pageant begins as he starts his casino ownership in Atlantic City.
In the early 1980s, Donald Trump starts developing casinos and becomes a real fixture of the culture there.
But particularly pageant culture, particularly the Miss America pageant.
He attends every year.
He is very visible in terms of the publicity.
He will go on to be a judge in the Miss America pageant before then in the early 90s he purchases the Miss Universe pageant group that includes the Miss USA pageant.
And the Miss Teen USA as well.
And the Miss Teen USA pageant that was for a long time the primary sort of for cultural prevalence, the primary competitor to the Miss America pageant.
Can you tell us very quickly the distinctions, though, between Miss America and Miss USA?
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