About is blood at the root a racial cleansing in america. Please welcome patrick phillips. Thank you so much. For the southern festival of books, thank you for coming. This will con turn into a the book really began with a conversation in a taxicab about 10 years ago when my friend tosha treadway who some people think of as poet laureate of the us but at the time was not yet. We knew each other through the poetry world and 10 years ago we were at a professional conference and not tosha and i are old friends but she on this one night decided to challenge me because i grew up in Forsyth County georgia which is known all over the state as a quote, white county but this is not something i knew in new york, had any familiarity with but natosha is an africanamerican woman who happened to go to the university of Georgia College a little way down the road from bursae and this meant when she heard me offhandedly mentioned that i came from this state , she stopped and really turned to me and sai
My name is bill miller, and i codirect the fall for the book festival. Whoo thank you very much. [laughter] i am so glad you all are here. First of all, let me a couple of housekeeping things. Cspan is here taping this evening, so that will be broadcast later. We will, that will include the question and answer session, so when we get to that portion, please come down to the microphone here on my left, and that will be lit so that if you ask the scintillating, brilliant question, youll be on cspan. The, we will, were going to do a little presentation, explanation, a couple of things here. Well try to move them along fairly quickly. But then well bring out sandra, and we know thats why youre here, and then we will have book sales and signing in the lobby afterward. Ive been involved with fall for the book since it was a Study Committee in 1998, and it was formed by the city of fairfax, Fairfax County library and a group of us here at mason. From those beginnings, fall for the book has al
Good afternoon, im steve mills, reporter the talk tribune tied we talk about prison, the astounding growth of the prison population in america and the roll prisons play in society and how that might change in the future mitchell guests are Baz Dreisinger and Elizabeth Hinton. Baz is the author of incarceration nation a she visited prisons in Nine Countries to better understand our attitudes towards crime, punishment and incarceration. A professor at john j. College in new york, baz is also a journalist, film and radio producer and a prison rights activist. The founds the prison to College Pipeline program which provides inmates access to College Course cozy college when theyre released. To my far right is Elizabeth Hinton asian assistant professor of history and africanamerican studies at harvard university. Her Research Focus us on the persistence of poverty and racial inequality in the 20th 20th century united states. She is the author or from the war of poverty to the war on crime.
Its too much i cant do it. He kept doing it and i said it doesnt matter whether we understand. We will talk. Then the second thing the breathless notes from the underground and he started talking about himself. We developed the incredible relationship then he wrote moby dick and i am trying to think now he couldnt stop you just kept reading out loud. We talked about everything and before i knew it he brought the comrade. Was he not a big time reader prior to this . He failed things in high school. He was just awful. It developed and then he ended up teaching kids at the city college to read and write to coach them. Then he started writing himself and now he writes a lot. I think its because the characters are so egotistical that he gave me strength. The first one well, anyway the well let it go at that. But its great if you are feeling low if you are a man. I dont know if it would help women. His Upper West Side book is angry and funny all at once. He lived around here a long time ago