Todays reading, what the negro wants and in this reading we see some pretty clear unanimity in terms of africanamerican leadership saying in a fairly full chorus, right, that segregation needs to go. And this is a shock to white southern liberals, right, and moderates all across the nation. The question for today that well answer is how do we get there . How do we get in 1944 africanamericans coming together, leadership from across political spectrum coming together and saying, yes. It is time for segregation to go. The answer to that question i would contend is that there is just movement, what i like to call this movement before the movement. A series of events, actions and activities we have to consider when we think about the moment in 1944. One of the places we can start is back in 1941 and just a little bit of background in terms of the Africanamerican Community in the United States in the 1940s. The Great Depression is still hammering communities all across the country. Africana
Africanamerican participation, in thinking about world war ii, grappling with the various and sundry issues and challenges that the 1940s present. Todays reading, what the negro wants and in this reading we see some pretty clear unanimity in terms of africanamerican leadership saying in a fairly full chorus, right, that segregation needs to go. And this is a shock to white southern liberals, right, and moderates all across the nation. The question for today that well answer is how do we get there . How do we get in 1944 africanamericans coming together, leadership from across political spectrum coming together and saying, yes. It is time for segregation to go. The answer to that question i would contend is that there is just movement, what i like to call this movement before the movement. A series of events, actions and activities we have to consider when we think about the moment in 1944. One of the places we can start is back in 1941 and just a little bit of background in terms of th
Augmentation. They want to look like celebrities. Experts are saying they are creating inn realistic body images that new moms feels like they need to hold to themselves. You see these people right after they had a baby a month ago. It is pressure. We look at celebrities, and instantly they have twins, they have babies and then couple months later they photographed and they look slim. It has to to with the air brushing and photo shopping. But that is what you have in your mind is i have to look that way. Even if you know they are using those tricks. Yes. Pressure is still on. You feel like you have to look that way. So plastic surgeons say moms post baby come in for the liposuction. Once you get one part done the fat goes somewhere else. Yes, they will have another baby. I think you wait until have you get babies out. I know my girlfriend. Im in my mid 30s. Having babies. They are on the tail end of having their last. Im doing a mommy make over of this body. They plan to wait unless yo
Wisconsinmadison are the can coauthors. Are the coauthors. Thank you very much. Guest thank you. [inaudible conversations] and now booktvs live coverage of the wisconsin book festival continues. This is author andrea mays. Shes the author of the millionaire and the bard. Live coverage on booktv on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] here we go. Ill start over. Welcome. My name is susan, and i work for the uwmadison libraries as a special collections librarian, an english language humanities librarian. Welcome to the wisconsin book festival. I would like to introduce today our author, andrea mays, who will be talking about her book with this fantastic cover, the millionaire and the bard. Tell you a little bit about andrea mays. Like henry folger, possessed by a lifelong obsession with shakespeare and his times. Ann create ya spent much of her andrea spent much of her girlhood holed up in the library listening to vinyl recordings. A graduate of stuyvesant high sch
Here we go. Ill start over. Welcome. My name is susan, and i work for the uwmadison libraries as a special collections librarian, an english language humanities librarian. Welcome to the wisconsin book festival. I would like to introduce today our author, andrea mays, who will be talking about her book with this fantastic cover, the millionaire and the bard. Tell you a little bit about andrea mays. Like henry folger, possessed by a lifelong obsession with shakespeare and his times. Ann create ya spent much of her andrea spent much of her girlhood holed up in the library listening to vinyl recordings. A graduate of stuyvesant high school, she was not only a protege of frank mccourt, but also his mentor. Andrea has degrees in economics from the State University of new york at binghamton and from ucla and teaches economics at cal State University at long beach. She was a president ial appointee to the u. S. International trade admission where she served as economist to the chairman. She d