You at this point. Mr. Kaufman. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Secretary, thank you for your service in the United States army. Although the president id like to think the president chose you in recognition. In proctor and gamble. And we had in this committee, my predecessor on the over sight subcommittee had requested a study of Major Construction products and that was done and published in april of 2013. At that time, it said there were four ongoing projects one in las vegas orlando, new orleans aurora colorado listed as denver. That the average 366 Million Dollars over budget. And that they were each on average about three years behind schedule. We clearly knew there was a big problem. If you and proctor and gamble were to step in and you had an apartment that was that dysfunctional, you would have fired the management team. Straightened it out, spotted off when i look at the v. A. , your core competency is benefits to veterans, health care being a significant part of that. Constructi
During the 18th and 19th history. And is the washington d. C. Area. He looks at georgetown been fitted from the slave economy in 90 minute memorial lecture is given annually to honor and part of the conference on washington d. C. History. I would like to bebin by thanking the Historical Society of washington, d. C. For the opportunity to deliver this years brown lecture. Proffer professor brown was champion of the history of washington, d. C. Its a thrill to be honor her work and life in this form. It was moving to hear youre recollection of your grandmother and im i cant tell you how happy it makes to hear from you that she would appreciate the work were doing at georgetown. Thats the best introduction i have ever gotten the entire time of my life. I appreciate that. I would hope to do her proud. I would like to thank the National Archives for hosting us. For all of you for being here in person or perhaps watching the remotely through the magic of youtube or cspan. I appreciate your i
Pretty much the same way only to discover that that is not true. We also, of course, have formalized this notion, and it is something called the one drop rule, which we used to distinguish Race Relations on most of mainland america, or compare race or understanding race on mainland north america from elsewhere in the world, and it of course speaks to the fact that African Americans and africans have had a common enemy and have had a shared experience, all of which complicates our understanding of the question of who is black, and those of you who were here last night, when our discussions kind of mobilized and moved notions of identity, the question of exactly what blackness means clearly grew and became on the floor. We know this from a historical perspective, we know people who were dragged across the atlantic started off not as africans but as congols, and angolans. On that trip, as sidney mintz and Richard Price tell us, there is something called shipmates that began to arise with
Opening the building, why would the museum even help to organize such a conference . Well, the simple answer is that were crazy. But the real answer is that at the smithsonian, at this museum, scholarship is the engine and research is the lifeblood of the institution. Without the decade of research and academic scholarship as a foundation, there would be no National Museum of African American history and culture. So we know that we are tied so much to the work that so many of you do. So much of the intellectual and interpretive agenda of the museum has been shaped by the work of many who are participating in this conference. Thanks to this amazing array of scholarship, the museum is able to position itself as an discussion that will help all who visit find the rich, complex, and nuanced history of the African American community. But even more importantly, thanks to your work, this museum will recenter the African American experience, and use African American history and culture as a le
Captioning performed by vitac the second conversation is indicative of the way some black americans are dealing with post modernity, the election of a black president , immigration of millions of nonwhites and advent of a Global Economy has offered Many American born blacks alternative ways to selfidentify, many ways to be black. While they dont reject their blackness, they nevertheless are expressing the desire to not be sir couple described by a Group Definition of blackness. They understand their race as one of many variables that define them. Im going to talk a little bit to this morning about what i found at the 1990s mass marches, the million man and woman march, to demonstrate the similarities and differences between black modernity and post modernity. In doing so, i hope to begin to answer the question that was before us this morning, who is black america. So if we start with the early the early conversation, at the turn of the century, africanamericans understood that to be pa