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
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
[applause] im going to begin by introducing my fellow panelists briefly and that we will just get right into it. To my immediate right is Samuel Roberts is the director of Institute Research in africanamerican studies and associate professor of history and also associate professor of socio medical sciences at the school of Public Health at columbia university. He writes, teaches and lectures widely on africanAmerican History, medical and Public Health history or been pedestrian history of social movements. His book titled infectious fear was published by the university of North Carolina press in 2009 and expiration of the political economy of health urban jack griffey and race between the late 19th century in the mid20th century. The mac which encompasses the jim crow era and the period from the bacteriological razzle revolution to the advent of antimicrobial therapy. To his right is professor chris lebron of yale university. He received his ph. D. From m. I. T. In 2009 and is the auth
Columbia university. He writes teaches and lectures on africanAmerican History medical and Public Health history urban history and the history of social movements. His book is entitled to infectious fear politics to season the Health Effects of segregation published by the university of North Carolina press in 2009 and an expiration of the political economys health urban geography and race between the late 19th century in the mid20th century but period which encompasses the jim crow era and the bacteriological revolution from me at the end of antimicrobial therapy. To his right is professor chris lebron. He received his ph. D. At m. I. T. And is the author of the awardwinning book imani perry, race and justice in our time. He has written pieces on race in america for the New York Times philosophy column and a stone into his right is that those are Nell Irvin Painter who currently lives and works in newark new jersey has an author and historian. She is the edwards professor of American