Veterans began . This actually started which stems from a documentary i did on the mississippi delta chinese. And i needed to find the right hook to tell the story of the Chinese Americans in the mississippi delta. Chinese American History is not sexy, so it took me almost 20 years to find the right way to tell this story, compelling enough to bring it a full audience. And i had the good fortune of meeting doctor Gwendolyn Gong who did a tremendous amount of research on the veterans, Service Personnel from mississippi delta. And from there, we discussed and talked about how to create a three part series that aired on pbs on the chinese and mississippi delta, and that got me interested in the world war ii veterans. So, honor and duty is really a compendium that all 22,000 plus Chinese Americans that served in world war ii, is that correct . Thats correct. This research was conducted over three years time. Actually, just a bit more than three years. We have been able to identify 22,827 w
After 93 years the sole survivor. With the Third Generation owner. Think all of you for your support the authors like morgan would not be here today. Tonight im beyond thrilled to head him with us. To celebrate the release of her new book wandering in strain places. Morgan juergens jerkins i thoroughly recommend this. Also a visiting professor at columbia university. The short form work. Has been featured in the New York Times the atlantic Rolling Stone esquire in the guardian among many others. Based in harlem. Joining morgan in conversation. Born and raised in jackson mississippi that chilling professor. The author of the Long Division author. How to slowly kill yourself and others in america. Its also the author of the men were heavy. Named one of the best books. By the undefeated. The publishers weekly. In the library journal. The washington post. And Entertainment Weekly the San Francisco chronicle. In the New York Times critics. Without further ado. Please join me in welcoming hi
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What people now refer to as the liberal consensus, the 1940s and 1950s, and trying to work through what actually is happening in terms of the kind of main thoroughfare of american politics, the possibilities for Political Action and the way that people are thinking about politics in america in the 40s and 50s. You also had three readings, all of which in different ways deal with the kind of idea of political ideology and all of which share a set of assumptions about the way that ideas matter to politics. So, well sort of be thinking today about how they kind of frame those ideas, and this is a kind of transition class where we move from kind of discussing the geopolitics of the cold war and the red scare into discussioning sort of what else is happening in america in the 1940s and 1950s. So, shall we start with daniel bell . Everybodys favorite reading from today . I assume there were very few questions about this one . Yeah. So, is he essentially saying th that, like the political ide
Or out of favor, a consensus formed in the United States around centrist political views to the point where the Political Parties were barely distinguishable. A belief in a mixed economy ruled, meaning a broad acceptance of some government involvement in the market. All right. So the last couple classes we have been talking about the red scare, kind of the impact of the red scare and policing the edges of american politics. Today well be looking at kind of the rest of the political landscape, beginning to look at what people now refer to as the liberal consensus of the 19 forts and 1950s and try to work through what actually is happening in terms of the kind of main thoroughfare of american politics, the possibility for Political Action and the way people are thinking about politics in america in the 40s and 50s. You also had three readings, all of which in different ways deal with the kind of idea of political ideology and all of which share a set of assumptions about the way that ide