Notice that three of them are from ucla. I would like to remind those of you at nyu that these three people used to be at nyu, and i think their presence here today is a symbol of the fact that once you are at nyu, you never really leave. It is just like a magnet coming back. We would like to congratulate them on their new roles and especially on this study. I should also say to remind you at nyu, we are now the Global Network university. So in a sense, think of ucla sort of like nyu west. As we congratulate you, we are also proud of your competence. The way we are going to proceed this morning is, im going to introduce all of our speakers and they will follow each other without further introduction. Our first speaker will be are still as torres arose go. The other comment i want to to make, because we have very distinguished speakers, for those of you not in academia is important for you to know that when someone is a high level besser professor, they have this other name they start t
About africanamerican fatherhood have been used in this conversation that we seem to be having about race for really hundreds of years. Well, i almost dont even know where to begin. Answering that question, though the topic of my talk invites the question. Part of what i think, what i find striking about baldwins mention there is just that part of the reference where he says the past has disappeared which is to say baldwin is saying black men have never really been able to have the experience of having fathers in the United States. And that is not, and that legacy and heritage is nothing new. And its really in some ways not a choice. Its an a tradition that had been imposed firstly by outside that created a kind of reality. That we still see today. That reality is the same reality. So much of what i see baldwin doing and why i want to keep coming back to that i picked the cotton line is that baldwin really insists if we want to take race seriously we have to collapse our sense of racia
About africanamerican fatherhood have been used in this conversation that we seem to be having about race for really hundreds of years. Well, i almost dont even know where to begin. Answering that question, though the topic of my talk invites the question. Part of what i think, what i find striking about baldwins mention there is just that part of the reference where he says the past has disappeared which is to say baldwin is saying black men have never really been able to have the experience of having fathers in the United States. And that is not, and that legacy and heritage is nothing new. And its really in some ways not a choice. Its an a tradition that had been imposed firstly by outside that created a kind of reality. That we still see today. That reality is the same reality. So much of what i see baldwin doing and why i want to keep coming back to that i picked the cotton line is that baldwin really insists if we want to take race seriously we have to collapse our sense of racia