People are still. Good afternoon. Please find a comfortable seat, and before we begin i need to tell you that there will be a book signing afterwards and, it is outside on table h, and all the authors will be there with their books. And, let me introduce the speakers for today. The first speaker will be darryl pinckney, all the way on my left. A longtime contributor to the new york review, distinguished author of high cotton and black deutschland among other books. And then i dont know who wants to be the second speaker but we might as well do it in order. So, yasmine el rashidi, egyptian author, who wrote, the battle for egypt, a chronicle of last summer, a novel, and written important pieces for the new york review. Last my on my right, masha gessen, who has written several books about russia, including the man without a face, the future is history, how totality ianism reclaimed russia, the most recent i think. Well be discussing immigration. None of us is an expert on the subject wh
And yet, i remember jews being the object on the one hand of extreme discrimination and on the other hand extreme envy because we were the only ones who could get an exit visa because the world thought we were persecuted. That is an object lesson in the artificiality of refugee status. When we came here, my parents talked about it as a great adventure and a great privilege. Refugees actually dont like to think of themselves as refugees. In the cutting essay, 1942, called we refugees, how every jewish refugee from germany pretends a future citizen lucky enough to be accepted and to be an economic migrant which is much more appealing but at the same time it was a great privilege to secure the refugee visa, so many people are predicting, we cant deal with the migration prices meaningfully, the meaninglessness of the distinction. I will say one thing, one of the problems if you dont have a distinction, economic migration is not a legitimate category, people have to pretend to be political
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon, please find a comfortable seat and before we begin i need to tell you that theyll be a book signing afterwards and its outside on table h and all the authors will be there with their books and let me introduce the speakers for today. The first speaker will be darrell pinckney, and then i dont know who wants to be the second speaker but we might as well do it in order. Yasmine el rashidi, the bottle of egypt, and important pieces for the new york review and lastly on my right, masha gessen who has written several books about russia, including the man without a mace, totalitariaism. We will be talking about immigration, theres so many different ways to address it. We will start with darryl. Oh, god, i cant ad lib so i will do something to read sorry. I dont know anything about immigration. You live with an immigrant, my boyfriend said but i think of you as englishman in new york just passing through, yes, im an immigrant just passing through. Its
Time. [laughing] just getting. I would not do that to you. Im really so thrilled to be in this conversation with you, chris, and to bring your stellar stellar book, yazidis audits your to the brooklyn book festival, book this will also to the use of the live stream at home. I think anybody knows who chris hayes is Everybody Knows that he is the editor at large of the nation magazine. He is on our Television Screens and on our social media feeds, seems nearly constantly as he broke on to the scene, when was it . Winded when did i break . 2011. Which was really when thoughtful policy discourse joined cable news and usually been able to bring that to his nightly new show at 8 p. M. , all in. Chris also a New York Times bestselling book twilight of the elites, america after a meritocracy. And then this spring release this book, a colony in a nation. So lets get started. Chris, why did you write this book . Who did you want to read it and what did you want them to feel when they finished th
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