host: jeff chang it s always good se to see you. talk to me about this book, who we be. why this book, why no treachery why not was up to me. we will look at trying to get this book out in 2009-2010. it ended up taking much longer to write. i could going to wipe a little late. the book is about the colorization of america which my term for what it the demographic changes we ve seen over the last half-century and the shifts that are accompanying it. host: this is a term you found to use and the book. what does that mean? guest: it s meant to capture a lot of the cultural shift that occurred. i m interested in looking at the way artists have changed the way we see each other and how we can live together. it s looking into the metaphor and seeing how we see race and using that as a way to ask the question how far have we really progress in the last half-century. host: when i hear the word colorization is just there was a moment where color wasn t as essential a notice
only to the end of her life kitschy except yourself as an artist. jihadist very successful businesses and francisco. then when she began documentary photography which is not a word that existed at the time she did not think of herself as an artist she thought she was a craftswoman practicing her kraft with a very low wage because she had to travel around to the camps. and because of that but as someone whose atoms themselves as an artist. she was born in hoboken and jersey 8095. and had a very ordinary middle-class child couldn t tell at age seven she got polio. that was a new disease at that time and she was loath lucky italy crippled one of her legs. had it crept into her lungs she would have died. but she was a disabled woman and would say this was the most important formative part of her identity she was very good at hiding it though. she would wear long skirts. purves mother was very afraid she would not be married because of the deformity her brother drove her t
river is a town in new jersey. it s actually a small city at this point. and i wrote about it because toms river was a town like any other town for a couple hundred years until the chemical industry came to town in 1952. and that changed everything in toms river. this book tells the story of everything that happened next. host: first of all, what kind of town is toms river? or was it when you were writing about it? guest: well, before the chemical industry came to town it was a sleepy place where there were tourists from the summer from philly and new york city, but mostly there were farmers, chicken farming was a big thing in toms river. it was a quiet place. and then it started to grow very rapidly once the chemical industry came to town and once the garden state parkway came down. and it became a place where there was lots of rapid growth. for a while it was one of the fastest growing communities in the whole country. host: so it s, what, halfway between new york and
has been called the most famous photograph in america. it s sort of the michael jordan of photographs. it s used in every textbook. when i ask my students what is the visual image you have of the great depression of the 1930s, they describe this photograph. host: where was that photograph taken? guest: it was actually taken in california, and it s interesting because she was really the main california in the western u.s. during the 1930s depression. and it was taken among people working in a pea-picking field. these were migrant farm workers who moved along from field to field, from one agricultural operation to another picking as the crops ripened. but this particular woman had been, and her family and many others, were stuck because there had been an unseasonal freeze. and there wasn t work. the pea crop was destroyed, and they were sitting there with no work and hoping that they would find work at their next stop. host: what year was that photograph taken? guest: t
the program hosted by new york university in new york city is about an hour and 20 minutes. [applause] good evening. i am delighted to be here. moderation is not really my strong suit. [laughter] i m very glad to be here tonight as the moderator and the book launch of feminism unfinished a short, surprising history of american women s movements. i will introduce the authors and a little while so let me first tell you what the format will be and then i will introduce our three speakers. we will have short ten-minute presentations by the three speakers and then we will give the authors of five minutes or so to respond to their comments and then we will open up to the audience for questions and comments. and then of course at the end at 6:30 there will be a reception with wine and chiefs. let me start by introducing in the order that they will speak the three speakers for this evening. michelle chen a remarkably prolific journalist writes on economic social and political iss