i'm doing work on martin delaney, often thought of a as the father for black nationalism, and i've begun ding research on delaney, wrote a short paper on delaney that may evolve into a monograph. >> host: your current book, "in the shadow of du bois" pushedly the university of harvard and you teach at the university of chicago. >> what are you reading this summer? booktv wants know. >> i have a list of books, some unfinished, others new. one i'm working on is "monsoon" a book about the whole issue of central asia where i think most of the politics of the next 25 years will occur, and i read chapters of it when i traveled to various parts like indonesia, but i want to read the whole book. i haven't finished it. i started in february. another book was given to me by a fellow in my office from the american academy of mechanical engineers who worked with me on the whole question of water, and i said to him, tell me what the problems with water are going to be over the next 20 or 30 years, and this book he's gave me and he said, i want you to read it. i never was able to write a perfect repor

having to do a come as you may guess african american political thought, some with du bois and martin delaney i also teach my systematic courses, critical race theory. i become major city in german philosophy, and teaching at the college right now. and seminars on the critique of modernity, regarding contemporary social thought. i just finished teaching african-american jewish political thought. next year and teaching in other corners on heidegger. so it'll range of courses, most having to do with 19th century german political thought, or having to do with critical race theory and african-american political thought. >> ewart also the author of book, a. what is that? >> guest: that his essays written to representations of race and film. and to other occasional essays as well. so for example, i have an essay there in representation of race in a movie, lion king, gave us all a long time ago. i have an essay by media representations of race during the rodney king of praising, the piece i was originally published from an uprising. also interesting piece engage in another philosopher around his rea