It positioned a black family is traditional. They brought you inside a Nuclear Black family in a way that was pathology is our caricatured in American Literature and Popular Culture but also did not show in the difficulties in dealing with the challenges of stigma inequality command race in general. Continuing the tour. This is a kind of interesting story. Currently as i mentioned a part of the collection includes amazing fine art and represents the can of like raise. Aa year and a half ago from the bronx reached out to the curator and said i want to give the schaumburg. Come check it out. This was purchased by the gentleman father in1941 with the original bill of sale for 125 still on the back of this panel. Whatwhat makes it even more interesting is this panel was done during the same year as the great migration series. This series is now exhibition in collaboration with the philips. New york. All 60 panels come together. Jacob lawrence himself heres the thing, not only do we have an
[inaudible conversations] on your screen now is a live picture of the Langston Hughes auditorium at the schomburg center. The home of the harlem book fair. The center for research and black culture part of the New York Public Library system is one of the leading institutions focusing on africanamerican life culture and experiences. Well be back live with the harlem book fair in just a few minutes. [inaudible conversations] what we often think as the bribery of our National Leaders by powerful special interests in washington may actually make more sense, understood as extortion by government officials both elected and unelected. Please elaborate. Guest i think sometimes that often times in fact the conventional wisdom is wrong and the conventional wisdom is you have good intentioned government officials who are being influenced or there are attachments to influence them by corporations corporations and public unyouens and if with could just seal off these Public Officials from outside i
Journalist in rome, italy. I worked for a daily newspaper and i was coming out of an african platform shoes and i asked my editor, was the uniform. What was the code of dress to be a fashion journalist . He introduced me to a woman and she said, dont judge a book by its cover because the cover is what sets the tone for its how people will determine whether or not you already to be sent into this world. She gave me some fast and safe ideas. She said if you dont have expensive jewelry, invest in a nice set of pearls. Put on some sensible shoes because they will believe youre saving the high heeled shoes for later in the evening. And always wear black big because when you wear black, you dont know how expensive or how cheap the article of clothing is. And as you can see, if you watch television you see fashion, you see these women running around, they are all in black. But to date the women here on this panel have, going to tackle the topic, fashioning the self the image is black. They co
Some ideas. If you dont have expensive jewelry invested in a set of rules, but also sensible shoes. Always where black. Nto and as you can see if you watch television in fashion week they are all in black. But today on this panel with the good major topics with the images of black and we continue to judge gave book by its cover of a man walks in the pants are hauled on the hips you automatically say he may not be ready for primetime. A young woman comes with half of her stomach out she may not be ready for prime time but i hope the Panel Discussion will help us to better understand these issues the moderator is 80 cocks a cultural anthropologist to teaches at the African American studies program. Her first book shape shifters. And she has written for a number of books of race and gender in Youth Culture is on the Editorial Board of the feminist writer of the founding Editorial Board of a former coeditor of transforming anthropology. A former professional the answer to a steady dollar s
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