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CSPAN2 Book TV After Words November 21, 2010

guest: then you have duboise, and yet duboise wasn t done yet. he had a conflict with marcus garvey, a young jamaican who had come to the united states, founded something called the black star line. you ll recall, of course, the white star line was home of the titanic and those ships. garvey wanted to have a fleet, and he wanted to have a commercial base where blacks would leave the united states because he, again, didn t believe that blacks and whites should assimilate, and he wanted blacks through his black star line to leave and go to africa. host: did garvey believe that we shouldn t or that we couldn t assimilate and that s the reason he wanted to go back to africa? guest: both. he thought not only should we not do it, but that whites would never give us an equal opportunity. and he used a very pejorative term towards duboise in the early part of the 1920s of calling him a white man s inward because, again, duboise then had been a founder of the niagara movem ....

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WHUT Tavis Smiley October 11, 2010

nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide is proud to join tavis in improving financial literacy and removing obstacles to economic empowerment. nationwide is on your side and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: stephen dunn is the co- author of the best-selling book freakonomics stephen godo honor. the first book has spawned a new film that is playing in theaters, superfreakonomics. the idea was for the university of chicago to see if students could increase their test scores simply by giving them a financial incentive. awesome. that is so cool. are you serious? that is so awesome. oh, my god. this is awesome. oh, yes, yes. you are getting straight a s from me. they say money doesn t buy happiness, and i agree, but i disagree. they are saying material things cannot make us happy. wanta bet? [laughter] tavi ....

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WHUT Tavis Smiley October 11, 2010

nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide is proud to join tavis in improving financial literacy and removing obstacles to economic empowerment. nationwide is on your side and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: stephen dunn is the co- author of the best-selling book freakonomics stephen godo honor. the first book has spawned a new film that is playing in theaters, superfreakonomics. the idea was for the university of chicago to see if students could increase their test scores simply by giving them a financial incentive. awesome. that is so cool. are you serious? that is so awesome. oh, my god. this is awesome. oh, yes, yes. you are getting straight a s from me. they say money doesn t buy happiness, and i agree, but i disagree. they are saying material things cannot make us happy. wanta bet? [laughter] tavi ....

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KQED Tavis Smiley October 11, 2010

obstacles to economic empowerment. nationwide is on your side and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: stephen dunn is the co- author of the best-selling book freakonomics stephen godo honor. the first book has spawned a new film that is playing in theaters, superfreakonomics. the idea was for the university of chicago to see if students could increase their test scores simply by giving them a financial incentive. awesome. that is so cool. are you serious? that is so awesome. oh, my god. this is awesome. oh, yes, yes. you are getting straight a s from me. they say money doesn t buy happiness, and i agree, but i disagree. they are saying material things cannot make us happy. wanta bet? [laughter] tavis: stephen dubner joins us. creatively, how do you take the book freakonomics and turn it into a movie? well, i agree, and i disagree, as my friend would say. [l ....

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WMPT Tavis Smiley October 11, 2010

nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide is proud to join tavis in improving financial literacy and removing obstacles to economic empowerment. nationwide is on your side and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: stephen dunn is the co- author of the best-selling book freakonomics stephen godo honor. the first book has spawned a new film that is playing in theaters, superfreakonomics. the idea was for the university of chicago to see if students could increase their test scores simply by giving them a financial incentive. awesome. that is so cool. are you serious? that is so awesome. oh, my god. this is awesome. oh, yes, yes. you are getting straight a s from me. they say money doesn t buy happiness, and i agree, but i disagree. they are saying material things cannot make us happy. wanta bet? [laughter] tavi ....

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