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Resisting History: Gender, Modernity, and Authorship
Barbara Ladd
July 23, 2007
01:02:42
Barbara Ladd discusses the life and work of one of America's foremost African American writers, Zora Neale Hurston. Ladd is the author of a critically acclaimed new book, Resisting History: Gender, Modernity, and Authorship in William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty.
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Love Cemetery: Unburying the Secret History of Slaves
China Galland
June 21, 2007
00:46:39
China Galland author of Love Cemetery: Unburying the Secret History of Slaves, reads from her work, the story of a Texas town's reconciliation with its slave-owning past.
Trying to Achieve the American Dream in Boston
Elisabeth D. Babcock
May 23, 2007
01:13:23
Panelists explore what structures and networks are available to give Boston residents the reading, writing, science, and math skills they need to find solid employment and move into financial stabilit
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Can We Talk about Race?
Beverly Daniel Tatum
May 17, 2007
01:13:16
Spelman College President Beverly Daniel Tatum sounds a warning call about the increasing but underreported resegregation of America, on the 53rd anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
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Road to Disunion: Why the South Left
William Freehling
May 16, 2007
00:58:32
William Freehling discusses his new book, The Road to Disunion: Volume 2. Georgia Center for the Book presents historian and writer William Freehling.
Researching Civil Rights: Challenges Met and Yet to Come
Gary Orfield
May 11, 2007
01:20:27
Gary Orfield, of the Civil Rights Project, and Theodore Shaw, of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, examine how researchers and legal advocates can further the aim of advancing civil rights in knowledge and policy.
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The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why
Jabari Asim
May 9, 2007
00:31:48
Jabari Asim, deputy editor of the Washington Post Book World and an essayist on popular culture for national magazines, explains why he believes that there is a place in this world for the usage of the "N" word, but only in the mouths and pens of those who truly understand its twisted history, wheth
Supreme Discomfort: Clarence Thomas' Divided Soul
Kevin Merida
May 3, 2007
00:58:31
Kevin Merida and Michael Fletcher discusses thier new book, Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas. Georgia Center for the Book presents two Washington Post reporters who provide an account of the life of Savannah-born Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.