isabel wilkerson, please come and got the award. [applause] [applause] >> the judges named one finalist, patrick wilken, the poet in his laboratory published by peguin press. in this e gauntly written biography, he follows claude levy strauss to his career in paris as one of the world's most celebrated thinkers. along the way, he provides us with brilliant perspectives of structuralism, the movement he launched as well as an incisive an anthropology of french culture. this book tells us what it means to be an intellectual and what it means to be an intellectual historian. patrick, are you here? will you come forward, please? [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> thank you very much the school. this award, and someone was saying to me just earlier that talking about studying him in the 60s and how his work was in citing mathematical formula that he came up with that involved skunk of the beast minus one. [laughter] i have to say i did mention that in the book, but my editor who is here, edited that out. [laughter] but really there

and one of the things and isabelle wilkerson talks about in her book the immigrants saw themselves even though they were born here. it was very much a immigrant experience because they came to the communities where they were the outsiders and that's one of the interesting things and i get pulled aside by people who were born from immigrant parents from european culture and realizing how similar the messages we all got at the dining room table were. the interesting thing to me about race and immigration in this country right now is how much the discussion around race and identity in america is still rooted in the civil rights era. it's still largely a binary discussion. it's still largely about black america and white america trying to find each other. and right now 1 out of every 6 children america and i think i got that statistic right is latino and the conversation has not caught up to that. i mean, if you visit -- and it's not just in southwestern cities. it's really all over america. there's a fast-growing latino population and the conversation of race and it's is not fully -- does

. >> now on tv, the prize awards and panel discussion with isabel wilkerson and alex tizon commished in 1998, the luksa prize -- lukas prize features the best writing in nonfiction. it's just over an hour. [applause] >> hi, everybody, and welcome to the journalism school and to the lukas and lynton prizes. as this is of the myriad prizes given out at the school,