. >> we have the pleasure of having with us today attorney, brandeis university professor, and authorquality: stories of race, gender, and finding home," anita hill. thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you so much for having me. >> now, in your book you talk about these kind of intersections between race and gender. how does this crisis of home particularly affect women of color? >> during the years when subprime loans were really raging through communities of color, many of the women who were taking out those loans were african-american women and latinas. they were taking out these loans on their own without a spouse or without a partner. and we know that there was racism involved, that there was sexism involved. people were given loans that they didn't really understand and maybe were misrepresented to them. so the reason they didn't understand them, it was being hidden from them. people were taking out subprime loans or high cost loans when they qualified for conventional loans. >> exactly. qul and all >> and all of this has been well documented. so the proportion of indi

i was up at brandeis university a few months ago for a seminar on poverty.ne of the people presenting was talking about the median wealth of single african-american women with children under the age of 18. their median wealth is $1. that is just crazy. >> explain that. >> wealth includes any money that you would have in a bank, assets, stocks, bonds, the value of your home, etc. the median for that group that they were talking about is $1. basically no money at all. the meeting is in the middle, so that means 50%, the median is less than $1. it is impossible to survive there. if i could make a comment on minimum wage, it is important to raise the minimum wage. we have talked for decades about the importance of manufacturing jobs in creating the middle- class in the post-world war ii era. people have lamented the loss of those so-called good jobs. but if you recall, those jobs were not always good. the people that worked in the steel mills, plants, mines, they were dangerous, terrible, low- paying. because of government support in some cases and especially be

. >> yes, john byrd, a professor of english at brandeis university.eally an incredible look at the relationship between the two men. and joe touches upon what sort of -- how one man was literally at sometimes almost obsessed with how the other viewed him and how that led to some problems, as well as to some solutions. >> well, it was a matchup of two entirely different sorts of people. you have the great american hero, eisenhower, the soldier of democracy. and the purely pragmatic political guy, richard nixon, who was essentially forced on eisenhower's ticket by party regulars. and eisenhower was wary of nixon, but also realized he had great political strengths. nixon knew or learned eventually that eisenhower was actually an extraordinary political leader. each learned something from the other. and nixon never quite got out from eisenhower's shadow. there's a great moment in the 1968 republican convention when nixon, at last, you know, is going to be -- now, he'd run in 1960 and lost. here's his chance to win. and what does he say? let's win it for i