Im stan deaton with the georgia historical society, and were so glad that youve joined us today for our special program. We are joined by dr. Andrew denson western Carolina University. The theme of this years Georgia History festival is about the importance of place in georgia, and were going to be really focusing today on the experience of the cherokee people in Georgia History. What happened to them and the way that georgians have remembered their history and their experience particularly with removal coming forward all the way up into the present. I want to welcome dr. Denton to our program andrew welcome and thanks so much for being here with us. Thanks, dan. Its a really good to talk with you all. Let me give andrew a quick introduction as i mentioned. Hes a professor of history at western Carolina University where he teaches courses on native american and United States history. He participates in their Cherokee Studies Program as you might expect he is the author of this book pub
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Intentions, what improvements did you suggest to retiring principal Maurice Weber . Guest well, one of the things that we wanted to get across is that its not so much that people intend to do bad things. Teachers dont go into education because they want to create achievement gaps, they dont go into education because they want some students to do well and others not to. But they do live in a society where race permeates everything about the society, right . Where the inequalities persist across a number of domains, and schools are no different. And part of the way this happens is not necessarily by the sort of oldfashioned racism where you have people organizing in the streets in ways that reproduce racial inequality, but the sort of daytoday dynamics that people engage in when theyre talking to someone, what they expect of them is and how that sort of manifests itself almost at a subconscious level where people act on their racial beliefs even when they dont intend to. And those are so
The most formidable people i have seen in my life have that balance. The ioc sports as the be all were involved in another part of their life the tunes you cannot out compete them. There is a way but when you build 16 million stadiums it is hard and not fair and to expect the kids to concentrate. Thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]. Were kicking off a full day today with the new book, and president reagan talking about president interjects and present bush and the Science Behind but the whole the of civilrights and the relationship between the u. S. And israel in the American Space program. That is all, being applied today from boston for you can get the full schedule on line and follow us on twitter and facebook as well to give scheduled updates. Here is h. W. Brand from the 20th annual texas book festival live coverage on booktv from austin, texas. Good morning, good morning, and thank you so much for joining us at the 20th annual texas
Glad that youve joined us today for our special program. We are joined by dr. Andrew denson western Carolina University. The theme of this years Georgia History festival is about the importance of place in georgia, and were going to be really focusing today on the experience of the cherokee people in Georgia History. What happened to them and the way that georgians have remembered their history and their experience particularly with removal coming forward all the way up into the present. I want to welcome dr. Denton to our program andrew welcome and thanks so much for being here with us. Thanks, dan. Its a really good to talk with you all. Let me give andrew a quick introduction as i mentioned. Hes a professor of history at western Carolina University where he teaches courses on native american and United States history. He participates in their Cherokee Studies Program as you might expect he is the author of this book published by the university of North Carolina, press its called mon