Super interesting to one the biggest differences there are no ghettos in switzerland and portugal. But they couldnt do is act like the people who were attics were others. In switzerland if you are an addict in switzerland switzerland the semis picture postcard you have in your head. Its a nice little place with lovely ordered parks and if youre a heroin addict people see you are a heroin addict reader have the equivalent of words shot away. That was really importance of part of the job offers that we would like to dismantle ghettoization and United States apart it is about humanizing people and saying we are all people as we all deserve a chance to live. We all deserve a chance to be happy and we can choose policies to do that. Thank you all for your questions. I really loved it. Thank you. [applause] i shouldve said i will now sign your books if you want me to. We will be here until 10 00 so please feel free to hang around and talk to johann. Grab a glass of wine, coffee and buy some
Ramifications of passing which included greater rights and opportunities but also isolation and disregard from the greater africanamerican community. Or topic for today is a chosen exile a history of racial passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs. Allyson hobbs is an assistant professor in the History Department at stanford university. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and received im sorry from Harvard University and she received a ph. D. With distinction from the university of chicago. She has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation and michelle are claman institute for gender research and the center for comparative study of race and ethnicity at stanford trade allison teaches courses on american identity africanamerican history africanamerican womens history and 20th century american history. She has won numerous Teaching Awards including the Phi Beta Kappa teaching prize the grapes award in the humanities the sinclair great teaching award. She gave a ted
Significant economic support. You would also be healing an enormous amount of devastation in the community with africanamerican men who are massively incarcerated. One thing its very easy to lobby for his just pardons. Governors governors and the president just a mass pardoning people for these harmless offenses. I dont think i totally answered your question but i got somewhere there. Thank you. Its a man. Hooray. You are going to give a really test us around question to compensate. I first want to say thank you for your talk. Sort of piggybacking off of the last question there is a recent speaker here who wrote a book called drug war and capitalism boca singh on mexico and colombia superimposing this talk about the drug war on movements within the Global Capital and looking at in particular mexico where there is a correlation between the police and the cartels and a huge part of his labor organizers and people who are sitting on a really rich resources. Again its like literature on th