For more information about the book fairs and festivals that booktv will be covering and to watch previous festival coverage, click the book fairs tab on our web site, booktv. Org. Good afternoon, everybody. We shall get the proceedings underway. When barack obama was first elected president of the United States, he was riding a swell of hope however illusory that hope may have been been across the country that our first black or at least halfblack president would usher in an era of postracial harmony. Seven years later, i think we all know how well that turned out. Obama has healed the racial divide about as successfully as his promised healing of the oceans. Racial unrest in this country has gone from a tense simmer to a raging boil. The left would like to pin the blame for this on what they claim is the rights racist refusal to accept a black man as president. In fact, what has exacerbated Race Relations in the United States is the inherent racism and grievance mongering of the left
Distinguished socialist mitch duneier. I am a former professor at the John Hopkins University up the street. My baltimore connection. As a school i take delight in books which were painstakingly researched and keen interpretation, help me understand a complex continue or phenomenon with greater clarity. The book ghetto is just such a book. I had the opportunity to teach get to in my last semester at hopkins in 2016 with the professor of history and director of jewish studies. Ken and i were impressed with the manner which the professor discussed the conflict of the ghetto. And i dont mean the context of jewish and black communes, and also how the concept itself and its application has shifted over time and n both the poplar . Scholarly imagination. Were not alone in our admiration for ghetto. Wrote an important review recently in New York Times that the professor has provided a, quote, stunningly detailed and timely survey of the ghetto as concept and phenomenon. Other reviews have ech