At williams college. Dr. Nolan is the author of several books including what we are here to discuss this evening what they saw in America Alexis de tocqueville, max weber, g. K. Chesterton and sayyid qutb. I especially look forward to this discussion as dr. Nolans insights will help us wrap up a yearlong study at the Mcconnell Center on American Political Culture inspired by tocquevilles democracy in america. Dr. Nolan holds an undergraduate degree from the university of virginia. His teaching and Research Interests fall within the general areas of law and society, culture, technology and social change and historical comparative sociology. He is the recipient of several grants and awards including the National Endowments for the humanities fellowships and a full bright scholarship. We look forward to dr. Williams pardon, dr. Nolans engaging discussion this evening on dark strands and bright threads, what they saw in america. Dr. Nolan has agreed to take questions from the audience foll
It positioned a black family is traditional. They brought you inside a Nuclear Black family in a way that was pathology is our caricatured in American Literature and Popular Culture but also did not show in the difficulties in dealing with the challenges of stigma inequality command race in general. Continuing the tour. This is a kind of interesting story. Currently as i mentioned a part of the collection includes amazing fine art and represents the can of like raise. Aa year and a half ago from the bronx reached out to the curator and said i want to give the schaumburg. Come check it out. This was purchased by the gentleman father in1941 with the original bill of sale for 125 still on the back of this panel. Whatwhat makes it even more interesting is this panel was done during the same year as the great migration series. This series is now exhibition in collaboration with the philips. New york. All 60 panels come together. Jacob lawrence himself heres the thing, not only do we have an
As timelys. A huge professor of the studies and faculty associate at Princeton University. The author of prospects of the 3rd politics of poetics and hiphop, and we are beautiful and be up terrible for racial inequality in the United States. Its. [applause] i am going to begin by introducing my fellow panelists briefly and then we will just get right into it so. To my immediate right is senor calton roberts director of the institute for research and africanamerican studies and associate professor of history and associate professor osos your medical sciences at the school of Public Health at columbia university. He writes teachers and lecturers widely on africanAmerican History urban history, had a history of social movement. His book was published by the university of North Carolina press in 2,009s. The political economy urban geography and race between a late 19th century and the mid20th century a time which encompasses the jim crow era and the bacterial pollution to the advent of ant
[inaudible conversations] on your screen now is a live picture of the Langston Hughes auditorium at the schomburg center. The home of the harlem book fair. The center for research and black culture part of the New York Public Library system is one of the leading institutions focusing on africanamerican life culture and experiences. Well be back live with the harlem book fair in just a few minutes. [inaudible conversations] what we often think as the bribery of our National Leaders by powerful special interests in washington may actually make more sense, understood as extortion by government officials both elected and unelected. Please elaborate. Guest i think sometimes that often times in fact the conventional wisdom is wrong and the conventional wisdom is you have good intentioned government officials who are being influenced or there are attachments to influence them by corporations corporations and public unyouens and if with could just seal off these Public Officials from outside i
AfricanAmerican History is how bad it is. So the history piece is one thing, but also even in this moment. Thats how i started off right . In this moment its all a about how we are diagnose, right . Slow death dying right . At what point do i have any agency to do anything you know, theres a distinction in the world between optimists and pessimists. Turns out that optimists get things done. Optimists succeed. It turns out that pessimists are right about the world. Right. [laughter] right right right right. And i just want to, i want to introduce a term. This is not an academic term, but its a term that i got from some of the black women that i worked with in detroit who were around 16 years old. And they said theres a difference between a struggle, the struggle and struggley with an ly, and they say a struggle is what we go through as human beings on this planet. The struggle they define as specific to the africanamerican experience in this country. And they said but struggley is when