Why now . I wrote a book on this topic turning years ago 20 years ago right after i discovered that the system called the Child Welfare system was a big state apparatus that monitored black communities and take children away. That was right actually i was finishing up my book, killing the blackbody. That book was about the regulation of the black womans child bearing. Mostly, i was focusing of the prosecutions of a black woman. I discovered that thousands of them were having their newborn babies taken from them because of a positive drug test, also because of a myth of the socalled, crack may be, which turns out to be a complete lie. I wanted to document this huge racial inequity in the Child Welfare system. I wrote that book. Then i worked in reaffirming the system reforming the system 20 years after that. We could talk about all of the kind of work that i was doing, training social workers, trying to reform foster care in washington state, which had been violating the Constitutional
Schedule. I really appreciate it. I have been a fan of your work appeared to have the opportunity to engage directly, it is wonderful to me. It almost feels like a cliche question. I think it matters. Why this book . Why now . I wrote a book on this topic turning years ago 20 years ago right after i discovered that the system called the Child Welfare system was a big state apparatus that monitored black communities and take children away. That was right actually i was finishing up my book, killing the blackbody. That book was about the regulation of the black womans child bearing. Mostly, i was focusing of the prosecutions of a black woman. I discovered that thousands of them were having their newborn babies taken from them because of a positive drug test, also because of a myth of the socalled, crack may be, which turns out to be a complete lie. I wanted to document this huge racial inequity in the Child Welfare system. I wrote that book. Then i worked in reaffirming the system reform
Opportunity to engage directly, it is wonderful to me. It almost feels like a cliche question. I think it matters. Why this book . Why now . I wrote a book on this topic turning years ago 20 years ago right after i discovered that the system called the Child Welfare system was a big state apparatus that monitored black communities and take children away. That was right actually i was finishing up my book, killing the blackbody. That book was about the regulation of the black womans child bearing. Mostly, i was focusing of the prosecutions of a black woman. I discovered that thousands of them were having their newborn babies taken from them because of a positive drug test, also because of a myth of the socalled, crack may be, which turns out to be a complete lie. I wanted to document this huge racial inequity in the Child Welfare system. I wrote that book. Then i worked in reaffirming the system reforming the system 20 years after that. We could talk about all of the kind of work that i
Good evening, everybody. I am excited to talk about this wonderful book with such a brilliant colleague and scholar. Thank you for doing this. Thank you for this conversation. Taking time out of your busy schedule. I really appreciate it. I have been a fan of your work appeared to have the opportunity to engage directly, it is wonderful to me. It almost feels like a cliche question. I think it matters. Why this book . Why now . I wrote a book on this topic turning years ago 20 years ago right after i discovered that the system called the Child Welfare system was a big state apparatus that monitored black communities and take children away. That was right actually i was finishing up my book, killing the blackbody. That book was about the regulation of the black womans child bearing. Mostly, i was focusing of the prosecutions of a black woman. I discovered that thousands of them were having their newborn babies taken from them because of a positive drug test, also because of a myth of th
25 years ago, john herzog approached this young woman who had already curated an exhibit on hamilton. That became one of our earliest exhibits. That was joanne freeman. Her history with hamilton is extensive. We have many hamiltonians in the audience. How many of you have read all 27 volumes of the papers of Alexander Hamilton, and several times . Joanne started early reading them as a teenager. Her Extensive Research took her to the hamilton grange in scotland as well as to st. Croix. She immersed herself in the culture by living there for several weeks. She has so much experienced hamilton that she went and fired a black powder dueling pistol. She did this at a gun range. Calling it oddly satisfying, not much of a kick, but a nice full pop and dramatic puff of smoke soon after. We have an historian tried to capture the mood and moment of what it was like several hundred years ago. Her phd work was done at the university of virginia, of all places. A hamiltonian in jefferson country,