By celebrating emily this phenomenal panel and this phenomenal. Well, joining us on American History tv is beth bailey, a professor at the university of kansnd lawrence, the author of this book, an aus army confrs racial crisis in the vietnam era. Well talk about that in a minute. But dr. Ba, teach at duke . Mainly military history. Us military history, occasionally history, gender and sexuality, which was my previous incarnation before i became convert to military history. How did you get into military history . I hate say it, but it was actually a televisionommercial Army Recruiting commercial. They weredvertising postcold war pre 911. And really how do ll the army when supposedly is the end of history and its all resolved they were selling the army as social good as you know taking men who were either at risk potentially problematic for society and helping them become the people that they could be helping them not disappoint their third grade teacher or their mother, whomever who be
Damian and thats where were gonna begin todays show, comunidad del valle, with carnaval. Its back in full force and with us back also is Rodrigo Duran who spends a lot of time away from us, but hes back here on the show. Welcome back, rodrigo. Rodrigo duran thank you, damian, thank you for having me. Im always looking forward to these. Damian i appreciate you. Well, its back better than ever. Tell us about carnaval 2024. Rodrigo yeah, were celebrating our 46th anniversary at carnaval San Francisco, taking place in the Mission District on saturday, may 25th, and sunday, may 26th. Both days are for the festival, the grand parade is only on sunday, may 26th, and we have a lot of great things in store. Damian tell us about some of those great things that we have to look forward to. Rodrigo so, for our festival we have four wonderful headliners that are going to represent carnaval, because its multicultural. So, if you like corridos, you like mexican regional music, we have noel torres comi
Thank you so much and welcome. A few housekeeping notes if you could take a minute and silence your cell phones so that we are not interrupted that would be great. We are recording the event and you will have an urge to shout your question but we have a microphone here if you could get up and use the microphone it gets recorded and everyone can hear the question and answer, so thank you in advance. So sometimes we ask you to fold up your chairs but if you could nonot fault them up today that would be awesome. If you enjoyed this event we have about 500 a year or so check out our november and december calendar of the information desk for the emails and also we opened up a bookstore so if you havent been down there its been three weeks i think. We have author events and its a wonderful space so it is worth a visit. Thats all the boring stuff. Areas of research include black families in white communities, identity and the role of race in the classroom. A nationally recognized authority on
Question but we have a microphone here and if you could please get up and use the microphone, then he gets recorded and a bullet else can hear the question and the answer. So thank you in advance for that. Finally, we have two more events today, sometimes as beautiful the pictures but if you could not today that would be awesome. Thanks. If you enjoy this event with about 500 of author events a year to check out our november, december events calendar. Sign up for an email and also we opened up a bookstore at the wharf. If you havent been there, its been three weeks, check it out. With author events there and its a beautiful space to hold great events. Its worth the visit. Thats all the boring stuff. Im excited to be introducing Beverly Daniel tatum dr. Tatum is a clinical psychologist in research, black families of my commute, racial identity, and the role of race in the classroom. The nationally recognized authority on racial issues in america she is toured extensively leading worksho
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