Understandings, different experiences, and somewhat different outcomes, and some absolutely understood that, and the reason they wanted to be voluntary negroes was effort on their part based on fundamental misunderstanding of the phrase, was to dispel the one drop myth, was as ad race radical way of saying that any reliance on blood or biology to determine race is ridiculous. Race is a social construction that works politically. Some of them were very canny in using it that way. What they didnt understand is that at the time, the phrase voluntary negro with a lot of currency in the day, it felt to the one preferable. Those who were volunteering negroes were blacks who looked so white they could have passed for white, but chose not to, and the most famous and celebrated voluntary negro was walter white behooves so white he was almost translucent. You cant get whiter. Blond hair, blue eyes. He refused to be identified as white. He encysted on his black identity, which he could claim beca
Then sam jacksons character comes in and using torture and the whole film is about me being tortured by sam jackson and pushing you to see how far everybody concerned is prepared to go to get the information out of him. It was an incredibly difficult film to make for me. I remember one of the first days of the torture thing which is is something where i was chained to the ceiling and hosed down with water with fans blowing on me. And i said how are we going to do this and they said were going to do it but not for very long. That set up a precedent for the hole film. That was a very frightening thing to go through. A point you brought up which is the idea that peoples desire to be involved in helping the imaging of this completely depends on what they believe is how they are being portrayed in it. And that gets very complicated. Its a public they report they are trying to not to get in trouble. There are agencies who are better or less. I think mueller believed in the idea which he sort
That more than economics. If you ruffled the feathers is someone powerful, that gets you the running and to complain to the publisher of the stories about those things happening. We were fortunate through the 70s and almost all our careers to work for people who are strong and upright in that area and just let the chips fall where they may, where the work way you. Coming up, booktv presents after words, an hourlong program where we invite guest host of interview authors. This economical journalist, john jenkins and his book, the partisan the life of William Rehnquist. And i. , the publisher of cq press details the early career and a 33 year Supreme Court tenure at the former chief justice. He talks the Supreme Court reporter and a biographer for Justice Oconnor and scalia, Joan Biskupic you. Welcome, john jenkins. Were here to talk about your new book, the partisan the life of William Rehnquist. Im going to start with one general question, just to give our viewers a sense of who the ch
Themselves as rebels, reinventing American Culture and establishment as they perceived it. I often am wondered by the who grew up in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, were the estrogen f the great ration. They fought and serve in world war ii only to see their to grow up as the counterculture. Thats one of the great imagined heir parents moving very often from cities to suburbs where they would be be the best d possible environment. The children le oved to the inner cities often in safe neighborhoods and reject the kind of comfort of their parents. And Janice Joplin saying hey, man, i want to live super hyper most. I want to do is just basically be like my parents and sit and die in front set. Television so theyre really pushing back and st the kind of safety security, comfort, theyre not that at all. Because of the suburbs that they grew up in, where there wasnt a of excitement. So theyre reacting to what they deficit in venture American Culture. 50 the assassination of the s, mlk, jfk, robert k
Welcome to the Supreme Court. It is great to see so many people here for the Supreme Court historical societys second lecture of the 2014 government lecture series. The society was formed in 1974 by chief Justice Warren burger with the notion of promoting public understanding of the history of the court. It does that in many ways through lectures like these, through the publication three times a year of the journal of Supreme Court history, and through the acquisition of portraits of the justices for display in the building. I would like to specially thank the society for its efforts to assist my predecessor and the Curators Office of obtaining the portraits of all 19 of the prior courts which have now been obtained. On behalf of all the officers of the court here, i would like to thank the society for the all the efforts they give to all of us. We are joined by three distinguished scholars for discussion of the civil war and its impact on Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. The moderator o