To our inquiry into how the arts can be researched as a window onto the past. But also how they affect the present or in the words of James Baldwin how history does not merely refer to the past history is literally present in all we do. The research and for this lecture and the lecture itself was inspired by the students of the university of virginia who thought that the university wasnt adequately representing how the labor of enslaved people helped to create that institution. Dr. Mcginnis is a renowned scholar and cultural cultural historian of the relationship between art and politics in the colonial and antebellum south particularly the politics of slavery. Shes an awardwinning author coauthor and editor of six books including two books on this topic slaves waiting for sale abolitionist art and the american slave trade and educated in tyranny slavery at Thomas Jeffersons university. Which for which she won . The she was awarded the Chelsea Eldridge book prize from the Smithsonian A
The arts is history students. You know me. Im professor april mastin we are very fortunate today to have a guest lecture president of Stony Brook University maury mcginnis. Id like to tell you a little bit about her the title of her dr. Mcginniss lecture as you can see is the shadow of slavery in public life. This topic is relevant not only to our inquiry into how the arts can be researched as a window onto the past. But also how they affect the present or in the words of James Baldwin how history does not merely refer to the past history is literally present in all we do. The research and for this lecture and the lecture itself was inspired by the students of the university of virginia who thought that the university wasnt adequately representing how the labor of enslaved people helped to create that institution. Dr. Mcginnis is a renowned scholar and cultural cultural historian of the relationship between art and politics in the colonial and antebellum south particularly the politics
Can be researched as a window onto the past. But also how they affect the present or in the words of James Baldwin how history does not merely refer to the past history is literally present in all we do. The research and for this lecture and the lecture itself was inspired by the students of the university of virginia who thought that the university wasnt adequately representing how the labor of enslaved people helped to create that institution. Dr. Mcginnis is a renowned scholar and cultural cultural historian of the relationship between art and politics in the colonial and antebellum south particularly the politics of slavery. Shes an awardwinning author coauthor and editor of six books including two books on this topic slaves waiting for sale abolitionist art and the american slave trade and educated in tyranny slavery at Thomas Jeffersons university. Which for which she won . The she was awarded the Chelsea Eldridge book prize from the Smithsonian American Art Museum . Dr. Mcginnis
Good morning, good to have you with us on this friday with that welcome to alJazeera America. For more than a month now, the Obama Administration has been saying how many millions of people have visited the health care website, but they have kept quiet about exactly how many have enrolled, insisting they do not have those numbers. New documents show the white house has a pretty good idea. Even the president admits healthcare. Gov has problems. The website is too slow, too many people have gotten stuck. Just how many people have gotten stuck or how many ever enrolled are figures the Obama Administration has been denying the public for days now. You have no numbers on whos enrolled . You have no idea. Well have those numbers available mid november. White house war room notes seem to show exact enrollment numbers for the first two days were off to a slow start. The notes say by the end of the second day, only 248 people had actually enrolled nationwide. A staggering statistic, considering
Way back and. Can you get off my driveway . Can you please get off my driveway . Reporter toronto mayor under pressure with a video showing him smoking crack cocaine. No reason to resign. We begin with an exclusive report from mali, a poor country in west africa that in the past year have seen fighters and rebels, right now in the capitol politicians are beginning talks on how to stabilize the north, but that maybe a vain hope and rebels tell us they will resume attacks on the army if it continues what it calls ethnic cleansing in an area they hope to turn into an independent state. Our reporter mohamed went to meet them. Its a source of deep anger among the rebels. Civilians crossing the border almost every week with wounds and stories of killing by the mali army. They tell al jazeera how they spent days in chains being beaten and verbally abused. They say soldiers arrested them in the desert while they were herding sheep accusing them of being rebels. One colleague is in Critical Con