. >> that was author heather mac donald from 2018, as we continue our look about books about race in america as journalism professor pamela newkirk and her presentation she examines whether diversity programs are working in the areas of entertainment, academia and corporate america. >> what i'm not optimistic about is white america's ability to see past the friction of african american, lot next people, the centuries-old demeaning images of people and how that has as much to do with the lack of diversity, and how education systems, what is on museum wal walls, what's in the literature, we are in a toxic culture where people of color are concerned and in a lot of ways, these diversity initiatives is like putting lipstick on a pig, you're trying to address something without addressing the cancer of the culture. were putting a band-aid upon a gunshot wound on a cancer, that we not have even begun to really, really deal with. because i know i've been on the faculty at nyu going on 26 years, i am not seeing curricular changes the way that one would expect, in the 1960s, that's what all of