Present. Host and what is your answer to the question on the seminar you teach is america postracial and first of all what is happening, postracial . What does that mean . Guest the course interrogates this idea that began to circulate after the election of barack obama to the presidency that a black man was in the white house that perhaps United States had over toms long history of racism and segregation and White Supremacy and so there was a lot of attention to that question after he was first elected. Tragically and very sadly in our recent time we have seen very unfortunate and dramatic illustrations that thats absolutely not the case. The courts really explored the whole range of issues from affirmative action in Higher Education to police violence, police brutality, boater laws to take up this question of what is the extent of Racial Disparities in American Life . Host Martha Biondi some people might be watching this per gram of tissue supervisor of africanamerican studies. Guest
Then theyll look get you to say you are crazy. Order you talking about . My wife cannot solve off cannot sell their home. I cannot take other jobs if i wanted to. The i could read and write and i have a chance and i didnt have that before. But is that different from the time when you did not hold yourself for beaten for any reason . Of course,. Reconstruction and made a lasting but but to celebrate reconstruction in that sense. If anybody walks away with anything, number one human beings are not rational. They are irrational their feelings and fears and hopes can shape a and twist and distort what they do all times. Seconds coming keep in mind what we often forget that reconstruction but to bring the nation together to reunite and that is a done deal but it wasnt. They did not know how the story would turn out to they had no idea in 1865 that black men would let be given in the fall within the next couple of years they had no idea of the outcome. It seems looking back we have to rememb
So thrilled to welcome blanche home. For those of you i have not had a chance to say hello to come i am the president of Hunter College and its an incredible institution which of course the institute is a part and it couldnt be more fitting that we are here tonight to celebrate this book and its author and subject in this house. [applause] we are gathered here at home and when our roosevelt shares with her husband, and i think it is fair to say her motherinlaw also for 25 years. From the front steps we enter today, franklin and eleanor departed to washington in 1933 to assume the glorious burden and the unparalleled challenges of economic oppression and the global war. While the book we are debuting tonight covers the war years and decades after when Eleanor Roosevelt became not just the first lady of the land of the first lady of the world i think it is fair to say that her activism, her sense of justice and belief in womens rights in the quest for civil rights for all commitments tha
There were lots of events going on but i absolutely could not not to be here because we were so thrilled to welcome blanche home. For those of you i have not had a chance to say hello to come i am the president of Hunter College and its an incredible institution which of course the institute is a part and it couldnt be more fitting that we are here tonight to celebrate this book and its author and subject in this house. [applause] we are gathered here at home and when our roosevelt shares with her husband, and i think it is fair to say her motherinlaw also for 25 years. From the front steps we enter today, franklin and eleanor departed to washington in 1933 to assume the glorious burden and the unparalleled challenges of economic oppression and the global war. While the book we are debuting tonight covers the war years and decades after when Eleanor Roosevelt became not just the first lady of the land of the first lady of the world i think it is fair to say that her activism, her sense
Thank you everyone and welcome to tonight program. We are very pleased to have joining us this evening zeynep tufecki. She is a contributing opinion writer at the New York Times as well as an assistant professor in the school of information and Library Science at the university of north carolina. And shes also the author of twitter and tear gas which is for sale after tonight program. And for those of you who are not familiar with World Affairs, we are an organization that seeks to explore problems and expand opportunities at the intersection of international policy, philanthropy, and commerce were solutions to our problems lie. We are recording ten nights event with both cspan as well as for radio. So please do take a moment to silence your cell phones, and would like to thank the audio engineer who is joining us this evening. You will notice we have a blue question cards on your seats so pleased to make use of them thought the program and writer programs that and i will bring them up