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We take you into College Classrooms across the country. In our original series lectures in history with discussions from college and University Classrooms around the country. Next, a look at latina history and the civil rights movement. We start with university of california san diego professor luis alvarez. Who teaches a class about the 1943 zoot suit riots in los angeles. He described Race Relations during the world war ii era. And how young people who wore zoot suits came to symbolize a chall...

Alvarez who teaches a class about the 1943 zoot suit riots in los angeles. He describes Race Relations during the world war ii era, and how young people who wore zoot suits came to symbolize a challengey to conventional gendr and racial identities. This is about an hour and a half. All right. So let me just remind you where we are and theve ongoing narrate of mexicanAmerican History. Last week we talked a lot about 1910 l and the mexican revoluti and the dramatic changes that this made for the m...

Origins of wall street, to excavate the International Origins of wall street and to locate those origins in the caribbean, and the west indies which i think was a kind of critical and fertile testing ground for wall streetson. Internationalization. At the same time i was interested in trying to understand to some degree is there a relationship between wall streets history in the International Field and some of its contemporary practices . Is there a way one can trace something of a genealogy thr...

We have 104 schools, and i think its interesting to see the 104 schools. Later, youll see a breakdown of what administrators look like and a demographic of our School District. I need a cue, right . And well talk about per pupil funding. We need finances to do amazing things. Our per pupil funding is 5,780 per kid. And when we look at what that looks like across the nation, i see some of your faces going whoa, right . We have to compete with everybody else, but this would be our per pupil fundin...

We ask you all to take your seats if you will. Today we hear from deputy secretary of state John Sullivan on the proposed reforms that he and secretary tillerson are working on for the state department and for the agency for international development. I dont think there are many that question the need to improve the operation of both agencies. A more efficient and effective state department in u. S. A. Id would better promote our National Security and our many other interests around the world. S...

And elsewhere. As we discuss their experiences, their trials and tribulations. What they live through the 1920s and the great depression. I mention a couple of times and we will be spending most of today discussing what happened to their children. Million plus migrants who brought children with them in the 20s and 30s, or had children who were born as american citizens and came of age in the 1930s and early 1940s and would become known as the Mexican American generation. Who would become young a...

Symbol i symbolize a challenge to racial identities. This is about an hour and a half. All right. So let me just remind you where we are in our ongoing narrative of Mexican American history. Last week we talked a lot about 1910 and the mexican revolution and the dramatic changes that this made for the mexicanorigin folk on the northern side of the border. This week we are going to begin discussion of our third flash point in the course, which is 1943, really as a standin for world war ii. If you...

Conventional gender and racial identities. This class is about an hour and 20 minutes. Let me rewind you let me remind you where we are. Abouteek we talked a lot 1910 and the mexican revolutions and the dramatic changes this made for the mexican folk on the northern side of the border. This week we are going to begin discussion of our third flashpoint in the course, which is 1933, really as a stand in for world war ii. At that ye and d week we had been discussing those million plus mexican migra...

Time since the Second World War that one sovereign nation has forcibly taken territory from another in europe. Since then, russia has fermented conflict in the donbass, repeatedly violated the National Airspace of several european countries, and mounted a sustained campaign of Cyber Espionage and disruption. This has included meddling in elections and packing the Danish Ministry of defence and the Danish Ministry of defence and the bundestag, among many others. Hacking. It is seeking to weaponis...

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