Has been called the most famous photograph in america. Its sort of the Michael Jordan of photographs. Its used in every textbook. When i ask my students what is the visual image you have of the Great Depression of the 1930s, they describe this photograph. Host where was that photograph taken . Guest it was actually taken in california, and its interesting because she was really the main california in the western u. S. During the 1930s depression. And it was taken among people working in a peapicking field. These were migrant farm workers who moved along from field to field, from one agricultural operation to another picking as the crops ripened. But this particular woman had been, and her family and many others, were stuck because there had been an unseasonal freeze. And there wasnt work. The pea crop was destroyed, and they were sitting there with no work and hoping that they would find work at their next stop. Host what year was that photograph taken . Guest that photograph was taken
Host jeff chang its always good se to see you. Talk to me about this book, who we be. Why this book, why no treachery why not was up to me. We will look at trying to get this book out in 20092010. It ended up taking much longer to write. I could going to wipe a little late. The book is about the colorization of america which my term for what it the demographic changes weve seen over the last halfcentury and the shifts that are accompanying it. Host this is a term you found to use and the book. What does that mean . Guest its meant to capture a lot of the cultural shift that occurred. Im interested in looking at the way artists have changed the way we see each other and how we can live together. Its looking into the metaphor and seeing how we see race and using that as a way to ask the question how far have we really progress in the last halfcentury. Host when i hear the word colorization is just there was a moment where color wasnt as essential a notice but you Say Something more nuanc
The program hosted by New York University in new york city is about an hour and 20 minutes. [applause] good evening. I am delighted to be here. Moderation is not really my strong suit. [laughter] im very glad to be here tonight as the moderator and the book launch of feminism unfinished a short, surprising history of american Womens Movements. I will introduce the authors and a little while so let me first tell you what the format will be and then i will introduce our three speakers. We will have short tenminute presentations by the three speakers and then we will give the authors of five minutes or so to respond to their comments and then we will open up to the audience for questions and comments. And then of course at the end at 6 30 there will be a reception with wine and chiefs. Let me start by introducing in the order that they will speak the three speakers for this evening. Michelle chen a remarkably prolific journalist writes on economic social and political issues affecting wom
I had four years off and return to Management Consulting and that was two years after my four years off of having two children. I earned the highest amount of money over the man and im now doing postgraduate studies after being a venture capitalist and im 43. Thats a good textbook case. Thank you for sharing that. The Womens Movement is at least 100 years old now and if you go back to suffragettes and its like the Civil Rights Movement for africanamericans which is even older, 150 years or so. Different movements of the source sort stagger at different times. Im thinking about do you have any comments on gender as it relates to people, cross gender people are people of amorphous gender. Thats a movement that is now maybe 50 years old at the most and it seems that its related to the Womens Movement in the same historical way. Yes i think we are just discovering the extent to which gender roles are more fluid than we once thought they were and discrimination against transgender individua
This is about an hour and 20 minutes. Would evening, ladies and gentlemen. I think we will get started. We are expecting lots more people, that we dont know what the traffic or the subway situation is. I am susan jones, i am also the director of the museum of the city of new york. I am so delighted to welcome you all here for this program. Women rebels, Margaret Sanger and the birthcontrol movement at 100, tonight, author and journalist Katha Pollitt will lead a conversation with activists and scholars. A singer viagra for, loretta ross and historian linda gordon. To mark the 100th anniversary of the Movement Possible origin in 1914, table discuss sangers legacy and the birthcontrol movement for activists today. I really do thank cspan for recognizing the importance, and being here to record tonights program. This is part of our ongoing activist new york series. All of which are sponsored by the puffin foundation. Our series is done in conjunction with an exhibition on the second floor