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Booktv wants to know what youre reading this summer. Tweet us booktv or post it on our facebook page, facebook. Com booktv. Welcome once again, to the next panel discussion. May we have you listening please . Thank you, so much. This panel, i love myself when im laughing a century or more, a century and more of Zora Neale Hurston. I had the pleasure of using the moderator todays discussion. Farah jasmine griffin. She is author of five books. The focus of her stud study of cultural history. D she is professor of english and comparative literature studies. She has a book, comparativehe history of black women. Ladies and gentlemen, far a jasmine griffin. [applause] thank you and good afternoon. I know youre here because you love hurston, not because this is one of the only cant hear . Is that better . No . I will keep talking until you can hear me. I will try to speak a little more loud did i. Is that Getting Better . Food. I know youre here because you love Zora Neale Hurston, not becaus
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In their lives and in their hearts, and their historical consciousness which, as he put it, may prove to be more deadly than that iron curtain of which we speak so much. Baldwin used a refrain about distancing between whites and blacks, between whites and of themselves, and between the stories within which people claim to be living. As the celebratory marches arrived in the center of montgomery, baldwin noticed that the Confederate Flag was flying from the capitol dome, and that the federalize Alabama National guard ordered to protect the marchers, as he put it, ward little Confederate Flags on their jackets. On all along the road, rogue baldwin, quoting him, older black men and women would undo into her unspeakable repression. And the white section of town, baldwin saw businessmen, as he puts it, on balconies, jeering, their mates in backdoors standing silent. And he describes, quote beige colored woman standing on the streets, a bit nervous who suddenly steps off the curb and joins t