Professor conways job is to point the conversation in any direction he wants and will take it from there in the discussion. I wanted to write human diversity for many reasons but at the center is this fact, we are on the cusp of an enormously exciting era. Advances in genetics and neuroscience are giving us new tools that will enable us to take giant strides in understanding human behavior, human apolicies and economies. We are like physicists, i like to say at the outset of the 19th century poised at a moment in history that would produce a apeople like me and dalton ought to be excited but a lot of social scientists are like, why . Because for almost a century now the social sciences have been in the grip of the orthodoxies scared stiff of biology. At the moment it takes the form of three widely and loudly proclaimed truths, gender is a social construct, race is a social construct. Class is a function of privilege. I stated those tenets very boldly. If you go to University Campus and
thanks to don t and calmly for making the trip down here to be with us tonight. human diversity is a big book and we don t have much time. my job is to give you an overview of the main findings of the book in 12 minutes and professor conway s job is to point the conversation in any direction he wants and will take it from there in the discussion. i wanted to write human diversity for many reasons but at the center is this fact, we are on the cusp of an enormously exciting era. advances in genetics and neuroscience are giving us new tools that will enable us to take giant strides in understanding human behavior, human ãpolicies and economies. we are like physicists, i like to say at the outset of the 19th century poised at a moment in history that would produce ã ãpeople like me and dalton ought to be excited but a lot of social scientists are like, why? because for almost a century now the social sciences have been in the grip of the orthodoxies scared stiff of biology.
The u. S. Information agency that was part of our show we say cold war apparatus . [laughter] and surveying postcolonial nations and keeping an eye on things so this is a benign side of the cia published topic magazine and Richard Tsongas was a photographer here taking a picture of james brown and legos nigeria in 1970. He has an expansive body of work and we have the entire collections of the images here are they meet the description of the show which is lesserknown images across the continent starting from pittsburgh to nigeria. Its a pretty the show. There also images of malcolm x for malcolm x for example or Elijah Mohammad as a rarely seen in terms of what people would find on a Google Search for example. Lets see that Elijah Mohammad photo down here. This is Elijah Mohammad at the end, correct . Right here, big as life and there is malcolm x. This is a 1961 shot in washington d. C. With a church of god figure. Debating the merits of islam. Host do you think we could have that deb
Mortimer. Theres absolutely no doubt where her commitment to the struggle and liberation of people were. I said, harper lee is a great novelist. Dont know where she stood on race relationships. I dont. Thats it. Thank you all so much for coming. That panel on harper lee was from the first annual mississippi book fair, held at the State Capitol in jackson. And by the way, go set a watchman, harper lees sobel novel, has sold about 1. 5 million copies since it was published in july. Up next, an Economics Panel from the harlem book fair in july. Thank you max rodriguez. Im rich from columbia university. An absolute pleasure to be here to introduce the panel that will launch the harlem book fairs author panel, broadcast on cspan, booktv. The panel is particularly timely given the crisis some staggering numbers about wealth inequality and should be a national crisis, this panel is calls wealth and finance in post civil rights area. I witness well moderateled by damon phillips, the codirector