Link on the History Center website. The author of the critically acclaimed bestseller when the National Book Critics Award was named the Nonfiction Book of 2010 and of all time with more than 200 other colleges and universities across the United States receiving reviews and critical claim that will add to the accolade. The pulitzer prizewinning biographer and contributing editor of Time Magazine at Vanderbilt University to talk about his new book and now i thank them both for being here. To bring enlightenment we wanted to do good choices going forward. There was a wonderful moment in the early 1960s when president kennedy made a visit to france and missus kennedy was more popular he simply said i am the gentle man that escorted kennedy to paris. Im the guy thats here to run the traffic a little bit. Isabel is one of the most important voices in america and abroad republic and its an honor to be here. Why is this book not called race . First of all i want to thank you for being here. I
Copies at the link and the chat at the right of your screen and the link provided on the website. As isabel and john are talking please submit your questions there is a q a feature at the bottom of the screen and we have six or seven of them or until time allows, the pulse o pulitze in new york bestseller, her debut work when the National Book Critics Award for nonfiction and was named ten best nonfictions of 2010 as well as in your time nonfiction of all time. She has taught at princeton and Boston University and more than 200 other colleges and universities across the United States europe and asia, half the origins of her discontent receiving critical claim and no doubt want to accolades, interviewing this evening is john meeting appoints a prizewinning biographer he is a shooting writer for the New York Times book review and contribute in editor of Time Magazine in the New York Times bestseller the hope of glory, the american odyssey of George Herbert walker bush, Thomas Jefferson a
Monday, fourtime governor of new york and the first catholic candidate for Major Political party. On American History tv, on cspan3. Isabel wilkerson, near your new book is entitled tapped. What is its main thesis . Guest the main thesis is that we live in an old house. We often cannot see the pillars and the beams in the structure beneath it. We often focus on what we think we can see, but we may not be focusing on the structure underneath. We may have inherited a hierarchy that harkens back to enslavement and live today with the consequences of that hierarchy in which people at the very beginning were put into assigned categories, that were part of creating what would become the United States and that we live with the aftereffects to this day. When we think about the United States, the word caste language that we apply to other civilizations, human creation that give us away viewing ourselves in a different lens. Host you write in the acknowledgments, this was a book that i had to wr
Live today with the consequences of that hierarchy in which people at the very beginning were put into assigned categories, that were part of creating what would become the United States and that we live with the aftereffects to this day. When we think about the United States, the word caste language that we apply to other civilizations, human creation that give us away viewing ourselves in a different lens. Host you write in the acknowledgments, this was a book that i had to write in the era that we find ourselves. Can you talk more about that . Guest using the word caste in which i was writing about the migration of 6 million African Americans fleeing the jim crow south. I came to realize through my research that i was not running writing not about leaving, but they were defecting a caste system. I use that word caste to describe the jim crow south and in doing so, i realized that i would find that readers would truly understand and see what people were living under in the jim crow s
After that, Prime Ministers questions. Then, the texas 21st Congressional District debate. Guest the main thesis is that we live in an old house. We focus on what we think we can see, but the may not be for focusing may not be focusing on the structure underneath. We may have inherited a torarchy that harkens back enslavement and live today with the consequences of that hierarchy in which people at the very beginning were put into assigned categories, that were part of creating what would become the United States and that we live with the aftereffect of this day. When we think about the United States, the word caste language apply to other civilizations, human creation that give us away viewing ourselves in a different lens. Host you write in the acknowledgments, this was a book that i had to write in the air that we find ourselves. Can you talk more about that . Caste ining the word which i was writing about the migration of 6 million african americans, i came to realize through my re