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This event and provided the video. Its my pleasure to introduce nicole and her book, Nicole Turner is assistant professor of religious studies at yale university. She earned her p. H. D. In history at the university of pennsylvania, her masters in divinity at Union Theological seminary in new york and her bachelors degree from Political Science from howardford college and is the author this 2020 book, soul liberty the evolution of black religious politics in post emancipation virginia published any the university of North Carolina press. And before asking if nicole the first question, i want t...

Culture. This is an hour and 45 minutes. [ applause ] all right. This is going to make me cry so come on, sit down. Geez, i was just going to say thank you, hard core folks. You know, im really pleased to welcome you to this session, but before i do that let me just say how unbelievably honored we at the smithsonian are that so many of you are here and that all of you that participate in this conference, the papers have been brilliant. We have learned so much, and i just want to let you know how much it means to all of the smithsonian that youre here. So thank all of you so much. I appreciate ...

Culture. This is an hour and 45 minutes. [ applause ] all right. This is going to make me cry so come on, sit down. Geez, i was just going to say thank you, hard core folks. You know, im really pleased to welcome you to this session, but before i do that let me just say how unbelievably honored we at the smithsonian are that so many of you are here and that all of you that participate in this conference, the papers have been brilliant. We have learned so much, and i just want to let you know how much it means to all of the smithsonian that youre here. So thank all of you so much. I appreciate ...

I kid, of course. I love it. But its true. I think as we learn from the key note last night, we live in the world that reconstruction made. And so the very important that we sort of grapple with and try to understand this period in our history. And we havent really had that kind of reckoning yet. Maybe this is our opportunity to do so. You can say what you want about the centennial of the civil war, but it happened. We didnt have a centennial of reconstruction. We werent here in 1966 sort of talking about this. Maybe it was too soon then. But hopefully not now. Today im excited to introduce ou...

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...