country we are in the abyss trying to claw our way out. we want to have this special our to talk with you about what we can do about it and where we are and how we got here. so rather than me doing a one-hour monologue, i thought who best to discuss this with me, that is american marxism than pete thank you for coming. i am beyond humbled to be here and when american marxism was in my mailbox i got the embargoed copy. it was like christmas. mark: thank you. phenomenal read and it could not be a more important moment for all the reason you stated i had that same feeling that we are not looking at this we re in the middle of itet and you use the word marxism for the first time in a title in your book and if i may i will dive in for a second for fox and friends i talked about how i like to ask you 100 questions i only have an hour but on page 251 talking about washington reading pains words so you say our challenge today speaking of 1776 is just as crucial and urgent and the
and i thought it s really important to find to begin with your journey to this work. tell a little bit about you. and the way in which your upbringing shaped how you approach antiracist education . sure. i ll talk about the aspects of my life and upbringingthat i think is so relevant to the work i do today . two pieces and one i m not sure i write about in the book and that is my mother died when i was 11 years old. she died of leukemia. this was the late 50s, early 60s. at that time you didn t talk about those things. it probably seems shocking to people today but cancer was a shameful thing. and we were told not to speak about it and when she died we were told not to talk about it. afterwards either. so it was a traumatic experience for me but i don t think it had to be that traumatic if we had been able to talkabout it . i was 11 years old. so from an early age i couldn t have articulated it this way at that time but i did understand the relationship between violence and
seems like a basic question but it s a moment in the book where you are actually dealing with the kind of tension between class and race. and you told your story. and i thought it s really important to find to begin with your journey to this work. tell a little bit about you. and the way in which your upbringing shaped how you approach antiracist education . sure. i ll talk about the aspects of my life and upbringingthat i think is so relevant to the work i do today . two pieces and one i m not sure i write about in the book and that is my mother died when i was 11 years old. she died of leukemia. this was the late 50s, early 60s. at that time you didn t talk about those things. it probably seems shocking to people today but cancer was a shameful thing. and we were told not to speak about it and when she died we were told not to talk about it. afterwards either. so it was a traumatic experience for me but i don t think it had to be that traumatic if we had been able to talk
i m so delighted to have this opportunity to sit down and talm with youou robin d angelo i am o excited. thank you so much it s an honor. i want to begin it seems a basic question but it s a moment in the book where you are dealing with the tension between class and race and you told your story and i thought it was really important to begin with your journey of w this work, tel me a little bit about you and the way in which heray upbringig shapes how you approach antiracist education. sure i will talk about the aspects of my life and upbringing it is so relevant to the work that i do today. at two pieces one i m not sure i read about in the book that my mother died when i was 11 years old she died of leukemia this was the late 50s early 60s and at that time you did not talk about those things in it seem shocking to people today that cancer was a shameful thing and we were told not to speak about it and when she died we were told not to talk about it. after words ei
to be ready for anything. comcast along with television companies support c-span2 as public service. i m an adult service s library at the new heaven public library. before we begin, i would like to thank my department for your support especially adult service s supervisor zeth and programming partner, isaac who is also doing tech support, behind the scenes today as well as gina binam, public service administrator for her constant support and mentoring. today we are joined by two incredible authors and activists. genara is founder to have neurodiversity project and a journalist producer and speaker and the author of the books that we are here for today which is divergent minds. if you can see it, my camera is a little blurry. thriving in a world that wasn t designed for you, our special iguest host today is melady, melady is an active, attorney, professor and award-winning author. melady has written a series of titles, how an ancient poet changed my life. you should pick