Captioning performed by vitac the second conversation is indicative of the way some black americans are dealing with post modernity, the election of a black president , immigration of millions of nonwhites and advent of a Global Economy has offered Many American born blacks alternative ways to selfidentify, many ways to be black. While they dont reject their blackness, they nevertheless are expressing the desire to not be sir couple described by a Group Definition of blackness. They understand their race as one of many variables that define them. Im going to talk a little bit to this morning about what i found at the 1990s mass marches, the million man and woman march, to demonstrate the similarities and differences between black modernity and post modernity. In doing so, i hope to begin to answer the question that was before us this morning, who is black america. So if we start with the early the early conversation, at the turn of the century, africanamericans understood that to be pa
This is how we tell the history, but my goal is to silence less and less people and thats what i would hope were doing in history. Which is not necessarily creating im not trying to create a new narrative. Im not trying to say if we do that now, well come to another narrative that were all going to agree on. I guess what i hope for the museum is that there is a lot of things that we have been silent about that show up in the museum in some kind of in some kind of way and now spaces for people to add other things that they think are silent because were all going to create something that has silences in it. But to have a lot of things that have been silent and not to worry about whether im not running a museum, i can say not worry, not to worry about the things that are going to be upset about that, are in there or included, et cetera. Yeah. [ applause ] my name is Junior Williams from newark, new jersey. The sum that is i think some of us make is that being black was only a protected de
Women and distinctions of gender. We are not guiloing to talk abo all of distinctions today but well deal with this question of whos black and some way set the table for the rest of the sessions during the next two days. My colleagues on the platform, most of you know who they are. They a their bios are in the program. Miles, just to the left of me at the university of michigan, sheshe does just about everything, africanAmerican Culture and native American Culture and going down the list it is quite impressive. My colleague at the university of maryland. Elsah Barkley Brown will lead off our discussion today trying to put a frame on what we would like to talk about and the next to elsah and at the end cleaning out for us is debra graywhite. Appearing in that order according to the instructions that we have been given that i have been given. According to the instructions that i have been given, everybody has ten minutes or theyre about to give a generous ten minutes but not that genero
Historic Preservation Commission good afternoon and regular hearing for disruptions of any kind. Proceedings. And when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. Id like to call roll at this time. Commissioner hyland commissioner hasz commissioner johnck commissioner johns sxhaukd and commissioner pearlman we Development Commissioner wolfram store absent commissioners, the first item on your agenda is general Public Comment to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. With respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when reached in the meeting. Each member of the public may address the commission up to three minutes. There are no speaker cards. A member of the public of the public that wishes to address the close session on a nonagenda liz item would you care to state your name my name is lillian chow give me the Planning Department and the prevention
Historic Preservation Commission good afternoon and regular hearing for disruptions of any kind. Proceedings. And when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. Id like to call roll at this time. Commissioner hyland commissioner hasz commissioner johnck commissioner johns sxhaukd and commissioner pearlman we Development Commissioner wolfram store absent commissioners, the first item on your agenda is general Public Comment to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. With respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when reached in the meeting. Each member of the public may address the commission up to three minutes. There are no speaker cards. A member of the public of the public that wishes to address the close session on a nonagenda liz item would you care to state your name my name is lillian chow give me the Planning Department and the prevention