--isabel wick arson wilkerson on c-span's q&a. >> the competition is on. be part of this year's c-span studentcam video competition. middleton high school students be the start of the national conversation i making a documentary exploring the issue you want the president and congress to address in 2021. be bold with your documentary, show opposing points of view and include c-span video. there is $100,000 in total cash prizes, and occluding a grand prize -- including a grand prize of $1000. be informed. you will find competition rules, tips and more information on how to get started on our website. studentcam.org. >> house speaker nancy pelosi and representative jamie raskin unveiled legislation earlier today that would create a commission on presidential capacity. they explained the role of congress designated in the 25th amendment and clarified the commission is for futu

host: isabel wilkerson joining us to talk about her new book, caste.oining us by zoom, which has the occasional bandwidth challenge, we apologize for that to our audience, but thank you for spending this hour with c-span. guest: thank you so much. ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] all q&a programs are available on our website, or as a podcast at c-span.org. >> c-span's washington journal, every day taking your calls live on the air on the news of the day and discussing policy issues that impact you. monday morning, alliance for about her-- talks groups feelings on amy coney barrett. coalitionmber to the to observe the supreme court talks about the supreme court staying comprised of nine justices. watch washington journal monday morning, and join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages and tweets. >> the senate confirmation hearings for justice amy coney barrett b

. ♪ ♪ >> sunday night on "q&a," author isabelle wilkerson talks about her new book. >> what i am doing a light on holding up an x-ray of the country so that we can see what is underneath these divisions, what is underneath what we call racism that there is this infrastructure of division that predates, actually, you know, race as a concept, race as a concept is a fairly new one in human history dating back only four or five hundred years. >> isabel wilkerson and her book, "caste," sunday night at 8 eastern on c-span's "q&a." >> next, senators tim kaine and josh hawley as well as representative katie porter give their reaction to the vice presidential debate. they also share their thoughts on the supreme court, the 2020 election and the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic. [silence] [no audio] e [no audio] [no audio] e [no audio] e. >> unfortunately, we were unable to resolve the issue from our feed for this event. we hope to have the entire event later in our program schedule. you can check back at c-span.org. >> host: on the phonehi now by paul egan, detroit free press, l a a

. >> isabel wilkerson and her book sunday night on c-span's q&a. >> former vice president joe biden joined his running mate kamala harris for an event in phoenix. their first time campaigning together since the democratic national convention back in august. ♪ sen. harris: hi, everybody. where is vanessa? thank you, vanessa. thank you so much for that introduction and for your leadership and all you do for the community. thank you. it is good to be in the house of labor. i had a chanced to visit the indian veterans national memorial and take tribute to the aid of americans who have served our country in uniform. we were joined by cindy mccain, a longtime friend of joe's, and someone i admire. i was fortunate to serve with john mccain in the senate and what an incredible american. he was a patriot of the highest order and cindy is supporting our campaign. [applause] and she is doing it because she knows that joe and i will always do what she and john did, and that is put our country first. cindy, wek city -- are grateful to be in arizona today. talk with workers and small business owners who

person --t work isabel wilkerson entered. "washington journal" continues. host: we are back with richard , who is here to discuss with us the history of president 's court roosevelt packing attempt. good morning. let's start with information for our c-span viewers. what does the constitution say about the size of the supreme court? guest: nothing, really, except that there shall be a supreme court and achieve justice. the number of justices is left of congress to prescribe. host: the only people who can decide on how many justices sit on the supreme court is the congress of the united states? guest: that's right. by ordinary legislation subject of course to the president's veto. host: what size did the supreme court start at? the constitution requires a chief justice. how many were there? guest: six at the beginning. it was an even number. in those days the nation was divided into judicial circuits. in those days the supreme court justices had real duties in each circuit. with respect to any given circuit. congress thought six seemed to be about the right n

author isabelle wilkerson, and then all about love and wrapping up the best-selling nonfiction books accord dog new york city's strand book store, is, intime missions, collection of essay biz novelist saidy smith on the early days of the covid-19 pandemic. some authors have appeared on booktv of. you can watch. the online at booktv.org. >> hello, this is gary love, the marketing manager at the book loft. exciting to be joined by mr. john dean, who is the author of "authoritarian nightmare, trump and his tollers" we'll talk about the book and joined by edison gonzalez. i'll hop of here and let everybody get started. thank you so ." >> all right. well, good evening or hello, whatever time of day you're watching this. i've got a brief power point i'm going to use to get into this book. it's based on academic study presented in a nonacademic manner. that was my job as a collaborator. i have been studying this science for a little over a decade and written an earlier book on it, as i'll mention. so my job was to keep my co lab -- to keep it for a lay audience. before i get into the book i

. ♪ >> sunday night on q&a, author and 2020 kirkus book finalist isabel wilkerson talks about her : therigin of our discontent. >> i am shining an x-ray on our country to find out what is underneath these divisions, what is underneath this racism, this infrastructure of division that predates race as a concept. race as a concept is fairly new in human history, dating only back 400 or 500 years. >> isabel wilkerson and her book caste: the origin of our discontent, sunday night at 8:00 &a.. eastern on c-span's q coverage of senate confirmation hearings for judge amy coney barrett, live coverage on c-span on c-span.org monday at not :00 a.m. eastern. and visit c-span.org to view a list of amy coney barrett's legal views. >> monday night on the communicators, charlie mitchell, author of a new book on cybersecurity, talks about the trump administration approach to cybersecurity and how it compares with previous administrations, and those of other countries. >> the message from the u.s. government has been really pressing on industry and business leaders that the top toson in an organization

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after that pulitzer prize winning author isabel wilkerson explores what she calls a hidden caste systemn the united states and then in humpty dumpty wanted the crowd, actor john lithgow provides a look at president trump through satirical first and wrapping up our look at some of the best-selling nonfiction books according to the new york times is killing crazy horse, former fox news host bill o'reilly and author martin do guards history of the conflicts between native american tribes and the united states government. most of these authors have appeared on book tv and you can watch them online at book tv.org . >> during a virtual event hosted by the commonwealth club susan eisenhower discusses the life and leadership of her grandfather dwight eisenhower . here's aportion . >> eisenhower's very conscious of what it would be to be a diminished president. we have to remember president wilson was almost a scandal that people in the country didn't know how well that president was so i was determined not to find himself in that situation for the good of the country and after he had three illn

host: isabel wilkerson joining us to talk about her new book, "caste."oining us by zoom, which has the occasional bandwidth challenge, we apologize for that to our audience, but thank you for spending this hour with c-span. guest: thank you so much. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ "q&a programs areequipmen available on a website or podcast c-span.org. of hours, the supreme court confirmation hearings began for judge amy coney barrett. ," today's "washington journal nan aron talks about her group's opposition to her nomination. later, former tennessee attorney general paul summers talks about his group's efforts to keep the supreme court to nine justices. "washington journal" is next. ♪ host: at age 48, judge amy coney barrett would be the youngest andeme court justice solidify the conservative members. welcome to the first of four days of hearings beginning at 9:00 a.m. eastern each day. we will get right to it with your thoughts on the nominee. d

the prize-winning author isabel wilkerson exports which he calls a hidden caste system in the united states. it is followed by a collection of essays by artist kelly and solutions and other problems. then how to be 1908 races, they argue that american must choose to be a type racist work towards building more equitable society. rubbing a look at some of the best selling nonfiction books according to the boston globe, is the splendid and the vile rated historian eric larson study of prime minister winston churchill's leadership . during the london blitz . to these authors have on tv and you can watch them online booktv.org. >> thank you for joining us. my name is - on behalf of harvard bookstore, i'm very pleased to introduce tonight's thomas levinson presenting his book, money for nothing. the scientist and trump politicians who reinvented money, in addition and made the world rich. he is joining conversation by david dobbs. it. >> harvard bookstore's continues to authors in the work to our communities and other digital communities. harvard .com/events. you also signed up for newslet

after that isabel wilkerson explores what she calls the hidden caste system in the united states. factored-- provides a critical look at present-- president trump and wrapping up our look at some of the best selling nonfiction books is killing crazy horse, former fox news host bill o'reilly history of the conflicts between native american tribes and the united states government. most of these authors have appeared on the tv and you can watch them online at the tv.org. >> here's a look at some publishing industry news spirit fox news entered the publishing world by announcing foxnews books in coordination with harpercollins. the partnership includes a three book deal and will launch the memo 24, with the release of foxnews hosts book modern warriors. the nobel prize in literature has been-- makes individual existence universal. poet laureate of the united states in 2003 and 2004. macarthur foundation announced annual genius grant providing each of the 21 recipients $125,000 a year for five years without any restrictions on the use of the grant money. this year's macarthur fellows i

the prize-winning author isabel wilkerson exports which he calls a hidden caste system in the unitedstates. it is followed by a collection of essays by artist kelly and solutions and other problems. then how to be 1908 races, they argue that american must choose to be a type racist work towards building more equitable society. rubbing a look at some of the best selling nonfiction books according to the boston globe, is the splendid and the vile rated historian eric larson study of prime minister winston churchill's leadership . during the london blitz . to these authors have on tv and you can watch them online booktv.org. >> thank you for joining us. my name is - on behalf of harvard bookstore, i'm very pleased to introduce tonight's thomas levinson presenting his book, money for nothing. the scientist and t

there is would a recent book published by is isabel wilkerson called american caste. >> i have innovate read the book. >> so i'll skip that one because it was about your perspectives on that. the other one was going back to gandhi and whether or not he ever changed his racistist cast yea based views. >> in the "the doctor and the saint" it traces gandhi's writings right from the 1860 something to 1946, and while he is known to have campaigned against caste, he actually didn't change his views. he had a very missionary approach to it. he said he was against the idea of -- [loss of audio] -- if you look essays he wrote like the ideal -- the municipal street sweeper that used to clean and his job was to clean shit, and he writes how this is such a holy job and what the ideal one should do and the brohm -- anybody should be -- [inaudible] -- but i would say that rather than listen to me, read that book. it's complicated and scary to talk off the top of my head because that book is -- it really quotes the writing and quotes the sources and it deals with the complications of that debate betwe

if you look at isabelle wilkerson, she talks about the mechanisms of cast.re different scholars trying to reach for a new vocabulariry to get us to another plateau of understanding about what this all means and how we all got here. but i think we are at a time where you can have conversations with folks and use some of these ideas and some of this terminology and, you know, i talked to a lot of people. they can spit it right back at me. they can tell me they watched their tv and share with me and how they felt about it but what are you doing? is this going to be the generation that knows all the words, or is this going to be the generation that acts on what has been learned? and so what i found and what's been a little disconcerting is a lot of talking. so i think, you know, the conversations that i'm most interested in having and trying to challenge people to have, don't perform the words back at me that you learned at 13. you know what i mean? don't regurgitate what ari just told you. don't quote baldwin to me. read baldwin. learn. and then act on it. i th

after that pulitzer prize winning author isabel wilkerson just floors what she talks about a hidden system in the united states. that is filed by a collection of essays from comic artist in solutions and other problems. then and how to be an antiracis antiracist, american must choose to be antiracist. and work towards a more equitable society. and repping up our look at some of the best-selling nonfiction books according to the boston globe is the splendid and the vile, historian eric larson study of prime minister winston churchill's leadership during the london blitz. most of these authors have appeared on book tv and you can watch them online @booktv.org. >> ring this year's bay area festival congressman barbara lee of california discussed voter suppression with emory university professor carol anderson. here's a portion of that talk. >> the vitriol that rained down on obama, the obstruction those folks in this community. this one does not get them, this one will. >> that is right. so the weight purges work, the way that gerrymandering works. the way that you will have, as you describe

unique moment in time or a special moment right now but in recent weeks, black authors including isabel wilkerson, brett bennett, ibrahim kennedy and michelle alexander amongst many others have surged to the top of the bestseller list. i know we wish all of us at this moment had been brought on by this racial reckoning took place in the aftermath of the murders of innocent black people. george floyd, breonna taylor, ahmaud arbery. does this still feel like, i mean do you think this one is going to last? doesit feel like a moment and what can black professionals do to continue to sustain recognition of authors of color so it's not just sort of uplift that winds down >> it is a moment and i don't believe it's a reflection in the history of publishing . one remembers that books by black writers were hugely popular in the 60s and 70s. in the, during the civil rights movement and during the black powermovement . and that went away. right now, we're at a moment when the narrative is still being defined to a certain degree by people in power so that those books that are on the bestseller list are there

i then pulitzer prize winning author isabelle wilkerson, and then all about love and wrapping up theest-selling nonfiction books accord dog new york city's strand book store, is, intime missions, collection of essay biz novelist saidy smith on the early days of the covid-19 pandemic. some authors have appeared on booktv of. you can watch. the online at booktv.org. >> hello, this is gary love, the marketing manager at the book loft. exciting to be joined by mr. john dean, who is the author of "authoritarian nightmare, trump and his tollers" we'll talk about the book and joined by edison

announcer: isabel wilkerson and her book. tonight at 8:00 eastern.ouncer: the senate confirmation hearings for amy coney barrett victim -- begin monday. introduction of the nominee, followed by opening statements. watch live coverage on c-span, stream on c-span.org, or listen on the c-span radio app. announcer: "washington journal" continues. host: siobhan hughes covers congress for the wall street journal. with the hearings come up and the jute -- in the judiciary committee coming up, we have spent an hour talking about these four days worth of hearings siobhan hughes, welcome. how did these hearings compare with ones in the past given we are now operating under the pandemic. four days for the nominee. caller: four to -- guest: four days is about the standard for a lot of people who have been tuning into the supreme court nominations only recently, it might feel a little different. that is because the brett kavanaugh nominations were so contentious. it did go on for longer than normal. four days is about right. we will start monday with opening stat

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by isabel wilkerson.lm, her first venture with netflix. she spoke and you oprah about how caste explores racism history in america. listen. >> i present our country as an old house. when you have an old house, you know there is always work to be done on it. and when, after a rain, you do not want to go under that basement sometimes because he don't want to know what you might face there. but whatever is there, you're going to have to deal with whether you wish to or not. it's never going away until you address it. >> this is such a powerful book and i'm in the middle of it and it's really, really hard to read, but it's so very good. >> so good and all true. and ava will kill it. > that house analogy is so spot on. >> i can't wait to see what she does. that's when isabel a announced fom the santa barbara bureau. >> i remember oprah said she sent it to 100 of the most influential people in the world. >> she followed up to say, did you read it? what did you think? >> a store toy share this friday. one woman

host: isabel wilkerson joining us to talk about her new book, "caste." joining us by zoom, which has the occasional bandwidth challenge, we apologize for that to our audience, but thank you for spending this hour with c-span. guest: thank you so much. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ "q&a programs areequipmen available on a website or podcast c-span.org. of hours, the supreme court confirmation hearings began for judge amy coney barrett. ," today's "washington journal nan aron talks about her group's opposition to her nomination. later, former tennessee attorney general paul summers talks about his group's efforts to keep the supreme court to nine justices. "washington journal" is next. ♪ host: at age 48, judge amy coney barrett would be the youngest andeme court justice solidify the conservative members. welcome to the first of four days of hearings beginning at 9:00 a.m. eastern each day. we will get right to it with your thoughts on the nominee.

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