Wrong with looking at half the worlds history. And i have negotiated many of these things throughout my teaching career. The idea is that i wanted to talk back but in a cheerful way. A cheerful and playful way. And i wanted to be the smiling face of womens studies and womens history so that as a diplomat from academic feminism i am approachable and i love my students, but enough with being rude to the professor. People would come by and say that i love your class. You not at all this way. And so thank you for putting that out there. So this is my say that you are not root of the professor in the class will not hurt you, looking at womens history will only improve your life. And what is it like for those on the other side . Those of us that have to deal with a whole range of our work by people who are fearful. Host would teach . What you teach . Guest i teach at George Washington university in georgetown. Everything required for the minor and the mainer. Introductory and womens history.
We are marking 15 years of booktv on cspan2. Here are some programs to watch this weekend on booktv. All weekend we are live from the 2013 southern festival of books in nashville would some of the operas featured are kitty but the run end of light care, the removal of tennessee governor ray blanton in 1979. And the jfk association. See a complete schedule of the days events and also a look at a late alexander cockburns book a colossal wreck. Aero difficult political scandals and American Culture at 9 00 on sunday. A 00 p. M. Sunday your thoughts what does not apply here. Up next representative john lewis, a democrat from georgia. The 14 term congressman talks about his role in the Civil Rights Movement, Race Relations in the obama event political partisanship on capitol hill, he has written wind a memoir of the movement, across that bridge life lessons and a vision for change and march book 1. Congressman john lewis, who is elwin wilson . Guest id met him in 1961. I was part of the fre
Youre watching booktv, nonfiction authors and books every weekend on cspan2. Booktvs Online Book Club selection for october is representative john lewis walking with the wind a memoir of the movement. As a young child, i tasted the bitter fruits of segregation and Racial Discrimination, and i didnt like it. I asked my mother and my father, my grandparents, my great grandparents, why segregation . Why Racial Discrimination . And they said, thats the way it is. Dont get in trouble. Dont get in the way. But in 955 when 1955 when i was in the tenth grade, 15 years old, i heard of rosa parks. I heard the voice of Martin Luther king jr. On the old radio, and the words of dr. King inspired me to find a way to get in the way. In 1956 with my brothers and sisters and is some of my first cousins, we went down to the Public Library in the little town of troy, alabama, trying to get library cards, trying to check some books out. And we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites onl
Next, profiling three American Students who moved to three Different Countries, finland, south korea, and poland, where education has taken hyperseriously. This is a little over an hour. [inaudible conversations] hello, everyone. Very boisterous crowd of avid readers of education books. Everyone, if i could [inaudible conversations] call your attention to the front of the room. We dont get this animated creed for books about education. Ill chalk that up to a great book and amanda. Im rachel white, the executive Vice President of the new America Foundation, and its a pleasure to welcome you all tonight. If you have not been here before, this is new america nyc, our new york outlet, a place for story telling and bringing policy stories alive for different audiences, and were the out let of a think tank called the new America Foundation that works across a range of issues, everything from health care to education, foreign policy, technology policy, and thats just a broad source of what we