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i'm a native texan and a graduate of the university of texas law school. in the early 1980's, which felt like it wasn't that much time since mr. sweat entered, we kind of saw and heard a lot about the deplorable conditions that he suffered when he was a student and much of that was actually still there when i was there. my question is this, given justice marshall's thoughts about integration as opposed to segregation and separate but equal, what advice would he give in today's environment as we witness a lot of the affinity groups, both, you know, in our work conditions and in the community where people are purposefully segregating themselves out, race-based, membership only of that particular group and what advice would he give about the wisdom of doing that in today's environment? >> a parallel i can give you to think about is that as stokely, carmichael and black power came to the forefront and the idea of black power and black situation, marshall was firmly against it. he didn't bleeven that that's the way to go. he almost said that's like being a white
i'm a native texan and a graduate of the university of texas law school. in the early 1980's, which felt like it wasn't that much time since mr. sweat entered, we kind of saw and heard a lot about the deplorable conditions that he suffered when he was a student and much of that was actually still there when i was there. my question is this, given justice marshall's thoughts about integration as opposed to segregation and separate but equal, what advice would he give in today's environment as we...
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well to discuss that i'm now joined by daniel hamermesh emeritus professor of economics at the university of texas and author of beauty pace why attractive people are more successful professor and so good to have you on the show thank you very much for your time thank you for having me now it's been almost a decade since you published these groundbreaking book and there's been quite a lot of changes in this past decade beauty pageants on not as popular as they used to be. some voters in some western countries are no longer discriminating against ugly man running for proud. then don't prime minister so i wonder if people are as of sassed about the looks as they used to be when the you were writing your book that's very hard to say been very little studies where they have been exactly the same thing let's say in the eighty's and right now one study for australia did exactly the same experiment in the mid eighty's and 2009 and they found remarkably similar relationships between beauty and outcomes such as earnings in these 2 periods so while we think things have gotten a little bit better i really do
well to discuss that i'm now joined by daniel hamermesh emeritus professor of economics at the university of texas and author of beauty pace why attractive people are more successful professor and so good to have you on the show thank you very much for your time thank you for having me now it's been almost a decade since you published these groundbreaking book and there's been quite a lot of changes in this past decade beauty pageants on not as popular as they used to be. some voters in some...
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a professor at the university of texas austin looked at latino assimilation and they lose spanish is the primary language and marry outside of their group but it's the same rate that the irish-americans integer german-americans and polish to a century ago so i would go further. i think they suppose that racial polarization of politics is greatly exaggerated. if you look at every group except for african-americans who have the kind of pattern with 90% of the democrats and maybe 10% republicans the other groups are less polarized including asian americans and hispanic americans and non-hispanic whites they are very evenly divided. that was hillary clinton and donald trump, so it's not polarized in that sense. latinos depending on the state politics in my home state of texas about 40% went for governor, 29% voted for donald trump. if your definition of polarization isn't even 50/50, that's polarized that it's not enormously polarized. >> that is an important part of the story. one of the criticisms of the populism of people that advocate for the politics i'm not saying that is what they
a professor at the university of texas austin looked at latino assimilation and they lose spanish is the primary language and marry outside of their group but it's the same rate that the irish-americans integer german-americans and polish to a century ago so i would go further. i think they suppose that racial polarization of politics is greatly exaggerated. if you look at every group except for african-americans who have the kind of pattern with 90% of the democrats and maybe 10% republicans...
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welcome back to worlds apart but daniel hamermesh and narrative professor off a canonic said the university of texas and author of beauty pace why attractive people are more successful professor hamermesh i heard you say in one interview that beauty for the most part is a silly distinction and that goes not only against my feelings but also against a lot of think areas from the book to you great writers like i'm talking checkoff or scholar wilde who all believe beauty especially in older ages is is a reflection of harmony across the various demands of a person's live do you think they were as silly as well. no i don't at all i think those things are bashing much more important than the things i'm talking about what i'm bothered about in terms of differences and beauty is that i have observed and have measured the whole different bamber of contacts that in fact people who are bad looking do worse economically and that seems to be wrong morally it also seems to be wrong in terms of the gains for those doing this criminal nation is a feeling that shouldn't exist any more than any other kind of discrimi
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. >> our special continues with a visit to the university of texas at san antonio special collections. to hear about the southwest voter registration education product and the impact it had on the latino population across the southwest. >> his name was william velasquez but everyone knew him as willie. it is a name synonymous with democracy in america. to the organization he founded, the southwest voter registration education project, he nearly doubled hispanic voter registration at increased the number of latino elected officials in the station. his appeal to the hispanic community was a simple, passionate, and direct. your vote is your voice. >> we will talk about the records of the southwest voter registration education project. they are the oldest and largest nonpartisan latino voter registration project in the country. the collection contains the first 20 years of the organization's existence, they are still in existence today. it is a deep and wide collection if you are interested in learning about what registration, particularly in minority communities. the organization was sta
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the university of michigan working on ph.d that he had spiritual awakening and baptized into the presbyterian church in 1976, he later became the founder of redimo presbyterian church in austin texas in 1982. after college he taught at university of texas at austin and became a reporter for the daily news and boston globe. first book garnered him significant attention and also caused the eye of the bradley foundation which supported his visiting fellowship right here at the heritage foundation for 2 years. newt gingrich, speaker of the house distributed to every member at the time and also what inspired the phrase compassionate conservatism. marvin was instrumental of world institute out which he's now the dean of and recruit and train christian journalists and inject them in mainstream media and we certainly do need that. he's the editor-in-chief of world which is a multimedia news organization that reports from a christian world view. you can follow him on twitter at marvinolasky. most recent book is reforming journalism, been described as faith-fill history of journalism and useful tips on news writing and advise and advocating conservative convictions and medium that's dominat
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johnson school of public affairs at the university of texas. and important for tonight's conversation, he is the author of "the new class war: saving democracy from the managerial elite." the book was just published today, so we're here at the launch. congratulations, michael, on the new book. there's a direct line between the new class war and the work that michael has done and has been pursuing since the '90, maybe most exemplifieded by his book "the fourth american revolution." sorry, the next american nation: nationalism in the fourth american revolution. whether you agree with his interpretation of western politics sense world war ii, his work demonstrates a serious effort to understand the causes of and the solutions to seemingly are never ending cycle of clashes and shifting to coalitions, which is exactly what our realignment podcast seeks to explore. also joining us is j.d. vance, who fittingly was the realignments premier guest. j.d., of course, is the author of the best sell ising and highly innine usual book "hillbilly elegy." he rec
johnson school of public affairs at the university of texas. and important for tonight's conversation, he is the author of "the new class war: saving democracy from the managerial elite." the book was just published today, so we're here at the launch. congratulations, michael, on the new book. there's a direct line between the new class war and the work that michael has done and has been pursuing since the '90, maybe most exemplifieded by his book "the fourth american...
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up next we take you to the university of texas at san antonio special collection.about the southwest voter registration education project and the impact it had on the latino population across the southwest. >> his name was william c. velÁzquez but everybody knew him as willy. willy was and is now a name synonymous with democracy in america. through the organization he founded the southwest voter registration education project, he nearly doubled hispanic voter registration and dramatically increased the number of latino elected officials in this nation. his appeal to the hispanic community was simple, passionate and direct. su voto es su voz. your vote is your voice. .. particularly in minority communities. the organization was started in 1974 by willie velasquez, william c velasquez. he, from san antonio, from a very Ãbas a very young man he was heavily involved in the chicano movement. when he was in college he was one of the founders of mexican-american youth foundation which was involved in doing voter registration drives at local colleges. also involved in high
up next we take you to the university of texas at san antonio special collection.about the southwest voter registration education project and the impact it had on the latino population across the southwest. >> his name was william c. velÁzquez but everybody knew him as willy. willy was and is now a name synonymous with democracy in america. through the organization he founded the southwest voter registration education project, he nearly doubled hispanic voter registration and...
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we take you to the university of texas, senator and his special. hear of the southwest voter registration impact. >> 's name was william but everybody knew him as willie. willie was and is now a name synonymous with democracy and american in the organization he founded was the southwest voter registration education project, and nearly doubled the hispanic voters. and elected officials in this nation. his appeal to the hispanic community was simple. it was passionate, and direct. your vote is your voice. >> we will be talking about the education project. they are the oldest and largest nonpartisan latino voter registration organization in the country. the collection contains the first 20 years of the organizations and they are still in existence today. it is a very deep and wide collection if you are interested in learning about voter registration particularly in minority communities. it was started in 1974 by willie, and he was from san antonio and from a very and has a very young man, he was really involved in the chicano movement. when he was in
we take you to the university of texas, senator and his special. hear of the southwest voter registration impact. >> 's name was william but everybody knew him as willie. willie was and is now a name synonymous with democracy and american in the organization he founded was the southwest voter registration education project, and nearly doubled the hispanic voters. and elected officials in this nation. his appeal to the hispanic community was simple. it was passionate, and direct. your...
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city in addition to the book we are going to talk about tonight and teaches journalism at the university of texas at austin. please welcome kate winkler dawson. [applause] >> want to set the scene? >> i'm a multitasker. one of the first questions will be where i found the subject of the book so i am going to -- is that a nancy pelosi move i guess? the excerpt, i'm picking this for two reasons, the reading i have done in the past involves long body parts in my two, 10-year-old daughters are here so the setup for this is how it is the case i actually read and how i discovered edward oscar heinrich and the reason he became called america's sherlock holmes. when i found him he was mentioned in a case about a botched train robbery in oregon and four people dead and the robbers who actually were not robbers because they didn't walk away with anything were in the wind and the only real clues they had were -- the federal agents, the government sent down us postal agents and 7 pacific railroad agents and that was the extent of federal agents sent down and they did with federal agents do witches go through
city in addition to the book we are going to talk about tonight and teaches journalism at the university of texas at austin. please welcome kate winkler dawson. [applause] >> want to set the scene? >> i'm a multitasker. one of the first questions will be where i found the subject of the book so i am going to -- is that a nancy pelosi move i guess? the excerpt, i'm picking this for two reasons, the reading i have done in the past involves long body parts in my two, 10-year-old...
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then and about 15 minutes we will visit the special collections at the university of texas in san antonio. later in about 40 minutes the debate surrounding "confederate statues and memorialization." we begin our special feature with lewis fisher on his book saving san antonio. >> we are standing in come to the geographical center of san antonio, texas. when fun of what's called the spanish governors palace in account that was actually set up here due to the complex between two european empires, france and spain, in the 18th century. spain had of course established itself well in latin america and south america and in mexico, and northern mexico was a special important to spain because of very rich silver mines. france was over to the northeast in louisiana and it reached up to the northern border of new spain along the red river where it was causing some trouble with the indians, and looking straight across the empty reaches of texas into the silver mines down in texas. the spaniards knew they had a some sort of defense, and they came upon san antonio. and so in 1618, the 302 years ago, s
then and about 15 minutes we will visit the special collections at the university of texas in san antonio. later in about 40 minutes the debate surrounding "confederate statues and memorialization." we begin our special feature with lewis fisher on his book saving san antonio. >> we are standing in come to the geographical center of san antonio, texas. when fun of what's called the spanish governors palace in account that was actually set up here due to the complex between two...
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school's center for the study of race and democracy at the university of texas at austin, and is author of the forthcoming bood "the swd the shield: thear revolutilives of malcolm x and martin luther king, jr." why was this particulamoment-- we had seen, by that time, so many other striking images of abuses by police against civil rights advocates and activists, why did this resonate so much? >> well, it made natl iond international news, and by the evening, when footage was released on all three networks, abowas shwing judgment at nuremburg, about the crimes of the hocaust, and they interrupted "judgment at innocent protesterg beaten in the late winter of 1965. thousands of people, they come to selma, they go teto the w house, and they're protesting outside of the white house, which really spurs lyndon johnson, who was a supporter of voting rights, but it spurs him inven more decisive action. >> sreenivasan: here we are, heading into anotherection now, 55 years later, and the topics of race and the topics of access and the topic of rightsba ark in the news. are rican americans-- do the
school's center for the study of race and democracy at the university of texas at austin, and is author of the forthcoming bood "the swd the shield: thear revolutilives of malcolm x and martin luther king, jr." why was this particulamoment-- we had seen, by that time, so many other striking images of abuses by police against civil rights advocates and activists, why did this resonate so much? >> well, it made natl iond international news, and by the evening, when footage was...
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to discuss that i'm now joined by danielle hamermesh emeritus professor of economics at the university of texas and author of beauty pace why attractive people are more successful professor and so good to have you on the show thank you very much for your time thank you for having me now it's been almost a decade since you published these groundbreaking book and there's been quite a lot of changes in this past decade beauty pageants not as popular as they used to be. some voters in some western countries are no longer discriminating against man running for president of prime minister so i wonder if people as obsessed about the looks.
to discuss that i'm now joined by danielle hamermesh emeritus professor of economics at the university of texas and author of beauty pace why attractive people are more successful professor and so good to have you on the show thank you very much for your time thank you for having me now it's been almost a decade since you published these groundbreaking book and there's been quite a lot of changes in this past decade beauty pageants not as popular as they used to be. some voters in some western...
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drives large tech companies like amazon, google and over with her book "ghost work" and later university of texas professor michael lind on how democracy are being impacted by new classwork. >> welcome everybody, thank you very much for coming. i'm glad to see you all here. my name is david autor, i'm a faculty member of the economics department and the co-chair of the mit work of the future attack force that was commissioned a year ago the spring and the purpose of the task force is to engage in confront the sense that many have that the labor market and technology is changing rapidly to understand why people are anxious, to figure out how concerned they should be, what is changing and what is different this time and what can we do to ensure that the coming era of change needs to not productivity growth but some that show up in our focus is on the labor market and how we make the labor market function well for as many workers as possible. that's where we see the opportunity and the challenge in the lesson if you read the task force report which was released last week, one thing that we s say, i
drives large tech companies like amazon, google and over with her book "ghost work" and later university of texas professor michael lind on how democracy are being impacted by new classwork. >> welcome everybody, thank you very much for coming. i'm glad to see you all here. my name is david autor, i'm a faculty member of the economics department and the co-chair of the mit work of the future attack force that was commissioned a year ago the spring and the purpose of the task...
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and later, university of texas professor michael lind. welcome, everybody. ank you very, very much for coming. i am a faculty member in the technology department and one of the cochairs of the task force commissioned by a year ago in the spring and the purpose of the task force is to engage and
and later, university of texas professor michael lind. welcome, everybody. ank you very, very much for coming. i am a faculty member in the technology department and one of the cochairs of the task force commissioned by a year ago in the spring and the purpose of the task force is to engage and
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when i was a graduate student at the university of texas, i'll stop just in a minute. there are a group of statues at one plaza at the university of texas that were funded by a confederate veteran, and there were statues of jefferson davis and of robert e lee along this one part of the campus. and those have become an issue. it flares up periodically and sort of dies down and flares up again. the arguments are always pretty much the same on the two sides, either in favor or against. in austin, those have come down now. they're in -- davis is in a museum, contextualized there as both edna and liz said they were in favor of doing. harold: i want to add some context about the museum alternative, because i think it's unrealistic. gary: totally unrealistic. harold: we know that in richmond, the director of the multi-museum said that she does not want the burden of caring for the statues should they ever be -- should it ever be proposed that they be transferred to the museum. but the second reason is really a matter of scale and the physicality of the statues. the lee, maybe
when i was a graduate student at the university of texas, i'll stop just in a minute. there are a group of statues at one plaza at the university of texas that were funded by a confederate veteran, and there were statues of jefferson davis and of robert e lee along this one part of the campus. and those have become an issue. it flares up periodically and sort of dies down and flares up again. the arguments are always pretty much the same on the two sides, either in favor or against. in austin,...
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i'm not saying it's a complete revolution, but even a place like where we're at, university of texas at austin, the very presence of black studies has changed anz transformed this place and not just academically, but it's connected to sports. it's connected to culture. it's connected to art. it's connected to public policies, right, so we can't underestimate that even as black studies didn't fulfill the mission necessarily of some of its most revolutionary architects, right, in terms of being something that was institutionalize and also connected to communities. in some cases it happened. in other cases it didn't. in other cases we have sort of a parallel to the ivory tower, in this case an ebony tower, in terms of black studies. when we think about ron walters in this idea of a black perspective, in 1972, it national black political convention meets in gary, indiana, and walters is one of the key behind-the-scenes figures who is helping write that national black political agenda. what was the agenda in the agenda was an agenda for urban, rural, local, regional, national and internati
i'm not saying it's a complete revolution, but even a place like where we're at, university of texas at austin, the very presence of black studies has changed anz transformed this place and not just academically, but it's connected to sports. it's connected to culture. it's connected to art. it's connected to public policies, right, so we can't underestimate that even as black studies didn't fulfill the mission necessarily of some of its most revolutionary architects, right, in terms of being...
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the minors won the only title for the school that is known as university of texas, el paso.s day in sports, march 19. i am joe fonzi. >> if you look hard enough you can find sports related activity. check this out. we got rock jumping. this is high degree of difficulty. >> wow! >> hard to do. >> we brought this back for frank. he loved it. this can be your lasting image of tonights' sportscast. >> hope no one backs up in that car. >> come on. >> i know. that is a bad way to say it. >> i know. good night everyone. take care. hing it. there. the juice got on the bread and, ew, what's that stuff? spices. they look like sea monkeys. have you ever really examined a jar of pickles, jay? it's like a swamp in there. i'll pass. what happened? i made him a beautiful sandwich, and he won't eat it. yeah, 'cause it had pickles on it. joe is taking a nap. i'm gonna go to the dry cleaners. well, if you're passing a sushi restaurant -- she's not. i've never heard of anyone not liking pickles. aw, big day for you, then. i'm just gonna make myself a grilled cheese. i think i saw some gruyere
the minors won the only title for the school that is known as university of texas, el paso.s day in sports, march 19. i am joe fonzi. >> if you look hard enough you can find sports related activity. check this out. we got rock jumping. this is high degree of difficulty. >> wow! >> hard to do. >> we brought this back for frank. he loved it. this can be your lasting image of tonights' sportscast. >> hope no one backs up in that car. >> come on. >> i know....
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author of the true story of a serial killer in addition to the book we'll talk about tonight and university of texas at austin she teaches journalis journalism. [applause] do you want to set the scene? >> i am a multi- tax or so i know one of the disc one - - the question is where i found the subject of the book. [laughter] so the excerpt because it fits with that and also the reading i have done in the past has a lot of body parts of my daughters are here. so the case that i have read and where i really and how he became called america's sherlock holmes. when they found him he was mentioned in the case about a botched train robbery in oregon four people were dead and the robbers were not robbers were in the wind and the only real clue was a pair of overalls. the federal agents the government sends down a us postal agent and at union pacific railroad agent and that was the extent. so they go through with a fine tooth comb and the only thing they came up with was on one of the pockets was some mechanics greece. so they enlisted a mechanic the sheriff is nervous he says pull in heinrich chancey what h
author of the true story of a serial killer in addition to the book we'll talk about tonight and university of texas at austin she teaches journalis journalism. [applause] do you want to set the scene? >> i am a multi- tax or so i know one of the disc one - - the question is where i found the subject of the book. [laughter] so the excerpt because it fits with that and also the reading i have done in the past has a lot of body parts of my daughters are here. so the case that i have read...
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earned her ba in history from harvard university and phd in american studies from the university of iowa. she taught at texas tech university, cal state, harvard and brown and is also the author for un natioof four un nation ag earth. tonight she will talk about the three cornered for, tell us how it came to be, maybe share some anecdotes and things sh the thie learned in the research process and read a passage or two and then we will to questions from the audience. please help they give a warm welcome to megan kate nelson. [applause] thanks for coming out on this cold night. before we begin, i would like to acknowledge that we need tonight on the traditional lands. the three cornered war .-full-stop story of the civil war in the far west. most of the action takes place in new mexico and would become arizona during the war as well as texas and colorado and so at this point you may be asking your self i thought it was about gettysburg and basically virginia so i thought the same thing myself when i first started teaching and research in civil war history. i grew up in colorado and i have never heard that ther
earned her ba in history from harvard university and phd in american studies from the university of iowa. she taught at texas tech university, cal state, harvard and brown and is also the author for un natioof four un nation ag earth. tonight she will talk about the three cornered for, tell us how it came to be, maybe share some anecdotes and things sh the thie learned in the research process and read a passage or two and then we will to questions from the audience. please help they give a warm...
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so he gets twice the margin that his predecessor resigned to become a chancellor of the university of texas. in charge of all the helping. what happened? they brought in the national democrat sue had elizabeth warren in favor of immediate fracking and you had joe biden he's in favor of an immediate end to drilling in the gulf of mexico which is a huge driver, the single driver in the economy. hughley and castro who goes door-to-door in favor of universal healthcare for illegals and robert francis who said were going to take your guns if they don't agree with me and homosexuality. they nationalized the race and whatever happened to the suburbanites who are willing to vote for joe biden or reasonable democrat said the republican is talking about property tax relief, public school support, school safety programs, emergency preparedness because of the hurricane area and he's talking about things a care about and always of the democrats saying things that offend me as a suburbanite. the one thing that will bring them back their link today with the term of the democrats but the thing that will br
so he gets twice the margin that his predecessor resigned to become a chancellor of the university of texas. in charge of all the helping. what happened? they brought in the national democrat sue had elizabeth warren in favor of immediate fracking and you had joe biden he's in favor of an immediate end to drilling in the gulf of mexico which is a huge driver, the single driver in the economy. hughley and castro who goes door-to-door in favor of universal healthcare for illegals and robert...
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history and literature from harvard university and her phd in american studies from the university of iowa. she taught at texas tech university, cal state, harvard and brown and is the author of ruination and troubling earth. tonight she will talk to us about three cornered war, tell us how it came today, and sur se some antidotes during the research process and read a passage or two then we'll open it up to questions from audience. please help me give a warm welcome to megan kate nelson. [applause] >> thank you guys thank you everyone for coming out on this drizzly cold dreary night. before we begin i would like technology that we meet her tonight on the traditional lands of the wampanoag people. so "the three-cornered war" tells a story of the civil war and the far west, most of the action takes place in new mexico which would become arizona during the war as well as texas and colorado and california. at this point you may be asking yourself i have never heard this of the war, i thought it was about gettysburg and basically virginia. so i thought the same thing myself when i first started teaching and resear
history and literature from harvard university and her phd in american studies from the university of iowa. she taught at texas tech university, cal state, harvard and brown and is the author of ruination and troubling earth. tonight she will talk to us about three cornered war, tell us how it came today, and sur se some antidotes during the research process and read a passage or two then we'll open it up to questions from audience. please help me give a warm welcome to megan kate nelson....
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drives large tech companies like amazon, google and over with her book "ghost work" and later university of texasessor michael lind on how democracy are being impacted by new classwork. >> welcome everybody, thank you very much for coming. i'm glad to see you all here. my name av
drives large tech companies like amazon, google and over with her book "ghost work" and later university of texasessor michael lind on how democracy are being impacted by new classwork. >> welcome everybody, thank you very much for coming. i'm glad to see you all here. my name av
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dawn: and her phd from the university of iowa. she taught at texas tech university, cal state fullerton, harvard and brown and is also the author and trembling earth. tonight she will talk to us about the three cornered more, tell us how it came to be measure some anecdotes about things she learned during the research process and read passenger to an open it up to questions to the audience. please something of a warm welcome to megan case nelson. [applause]. megan: thank you guys. thank you for coming out on this drizzly cold dreary night. before we begin, i would like to acknowledge that we meet here tonight on a traditional land of these people. so the three-quarter, also story tells the story of the civil war the far west. most of the action takes place in mexico. it would become arizona during the war. as well as texas and colorado and california. and so this point, you may be asking yourselves, what. what more i have never heard of this. i thought it was about gettysburg. and basically virginia. so i thought the same thing myself when i first st
dawn: and her phd from the university of iowa. she taught at texas tech university, cal state fullerton, harvard and brown and is also the author and trembling earth. tonight she will talk to us about the three cornered more, tell us how it came to be measure some anecdotes about things she learned during the research process and read passenger to an open it up to questions to the audience. please something of a warm welcome to megan case nelson. [applause]. megan: thank you guys. thank you for...
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well, coming up next, a history professor from the university of texas teaches a class on the life and career of civil rights leader ron walters. he began organizing sit-ins at segregated stores in kansas in 1958 and went on to academia where he helped to popularize african-american studies as a scholarly field. he also worked on jesse jackson's campaign in 1984 and 1988. >> today we're going to be talking about the life of ronald w. walters and the search for black power, 1967 to 2010.
well, coming up next, a history professor from the university of texas teaches a class on the life and career of civil rights leader ron walters. he began organizing sit-ins at segregated stores in kansas in 1958 and went on to academia where he helped to popularize african-american studies as a scholarly field. he also worked on jesse jackson's campaign in 1984 and 1988. >> today we're going to be talking about the life of ronald w. walters and the search for black power, 1967 to 2010.
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. >> joining us now is the assistant director research at the university of texas, austin. you wrote an open letter where it urges young people to stay home and break the chain of c cont contagion. tell us more about that. >> after seeing social posts about people at bars and beaches. i want to reach out to ask them to think of the greater good. it is spreading all over these beaches. we need to step up as a generation and stop the spread and take on this challenge. >> and why do you think it is not getting through to young people? i know even if they feel invisible themselves, do you think they don't understand that they can spread this? i am sure many of them have older people in their lives who they love and want to see live, why are they giving in? >> they may not understand the data that's showing now that you can be completely fine but you may carry it to a grandparent or a parent or your bartender who has diabetes and you didn't know or any vulnerable populations. you may be a carrier but asymptomatic . >> also here in the united states and around the world. they wond
. >> joining us now is the assistant director research at the university of texas, austin. you wrote an open letter where it urges young people to stay home and break the chain of c cont contagion. tell us more about that. >> after seeing social posts about people at bars and beaches. i want to reach out to ask them to think of the greater good. it is spreading all over these beaches. we need to step up as a generation and stop the spread and take on this challenge. >> and why...
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she teaches journalism at the university of texas at austin. please welcome her. [applause] you want to set the scene. >> i know that one of becker's first questions will be where i found the subject of the book. [laughter] i am thinking this one for two reasons. it sits perfectly with that. the reading i have done in the past involved a lot a body parts. my 210-year-old daughters are here. you're going a little bit more of an ally a section. >> this set up for this is how it is the case that i actually read and how i discovered. really, it is why he be called sherlock holmes. when i found him, he was mentioned in a cave about a botched train robbery in oregon. it was four people dead and the robbers who actually were not robbers because they did not walk away with anything, where in the wind. the only real clues they had were parable rules. the federal agents, the government set down agents and southern pacific agents. that was for the extent. they did what federal agents do which is go through with a fine tooth comb. the only thing that they came up with was on o
she teaches journalism at the university of texas at austin. please welcome her. [applause] you want to set the scene. >> i know that one of becker's first questions will be where i found the subject of the book. [laughter] i am thinking this one for two reasons. it sits perfectly with that. the reading i have done in the past involved a lot a body parts. my 210-year-old daughters are here. you're going a little bit more of an ally a section. >> this set up for this is how it is the...
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in addition to the book we're going to talk about tonight, and she teaches journalism at the university of texas at austin. please welcome kate winkler dawson. [applause] you want to set the scene? >> yeah. let me set the scene. i am a multitasker, so i know one of her first questions is going to be where i found the subject of the book. [laughter] so the excerpt is, i'm picking this one for two reasons. one, it fits perfectly with that and, two, because the reading i've done in the past involves a lot of body parts, and my two 10-year-old daughters are here. okay. so the set-up for this is how, it's the case that i, how i actually discovered edward oscar heinrich and the reason why he became called america's sherlock holmes. when i found him, he was mentioned in a case about a botched train theed robbery in oregon, and it was four people dead, and the robbers who actually were not robbers because they didn't walk away with anything were in wind, ande only real clues they had were a pair of overalls. so the government sent down u.s. postal agent agent ises and -- agents and southern pacific rail
in addition to the book we're going to talk about tonight, and she teaches journalism at the university of texas at austin. please welcome kate winkler dawson. [applause] you want to set the scene? >> yeah. let me set the scene. i am a multitasker, so i know one of her first questions is going to be where i found the subject of the book. [laughter] so the excerpt is, i'm picking this one for two reasons. one, it fits perfectly with that and, two, because the reading i've done in the past...
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district of new york now with a new school here in new york, and victoria defrancesco soto at the university of texas in austin. victoria, you are at the scene of what we were just talking about, so let me ask you about it. for folks who aren't immediately familiar with south by southwest, i've heard of it for years. i've never been. describe what this means to austin, what the event means and what the impact of canceling it will be. >> right, so the impact is multidimensional, as we heard mayor adler talk about the numbers, the figures, hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue come in with south by southwest. there's that piece of it. there's the cultural component. south by southwest has been a feature of the austin culture for over three decades. it is part of who we are. it is part of our dna here in austin so my heartaches in knowing that south by southwest is canceled, and then the other pieces is understanding that south by southwest has always been this beautiful space of creativity that really is a launching pad for creativity nationally and internationally. so lately we've come to think a
district of new york now with a new school here in new york, and victoria defrancesco soto at the university of texas in austin. victoria, you are at the scene of what we were just talking about, so let me ask you about it. for folks who aren't immediately familiar with south by southwest, i've heard of it for years. i've never been. describe what this means to austin, what the event means and what the impact of canceling it will be. >> right, so the impact is multidimensional, as we...
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pauline rosenau, professor amrita's at the university of texas.2.7 million members across the u.s.. afl-cio president richard trumka is here to talk about his numbers are dealing with the prone a virus. that is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ david: this is "balance of power." i am david westin. the coronavirus shows every indication it will touch every aspect of american life. one of the keys will be the effect on our workers. --president of the fl ceo the afl-cio, richard trumka represents over 12 million of those workers. how area sense of million workers doing? richard: we are doing like everybody else is. the american people face two threats. they face the threat of a real disease, the coronavirus, and they face the threat of fear, fear that could divide us when we need to come together. every american will be affected by this situation. some more, some less. there are elderly people right now that are in a home that cannot see their loved ones. they will get lonely. there are workers that will get laid off. there are workers that will have to cha
pauline rosenau, professor amrita's at the university of texas.2.7 million members across the u.s.. afl-cio president richard trumka is here to talk about his numbers are dealing with the prone a virus. that is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ david: this is "balance of power." i am david westin. the coronavirus shows every indication it will touch every aspect of american life. one of the keys will be the effect on our workers. --president of the fl ceo the afl-cio, richard trumka...
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joining us now for some texas perspective is victoria defrancesco soto, assistant dean of public affairs at the university of texas. great to have you here. thanks for making time for us. >> sure thing, rachel. >> so this dallas event for joe biden, it means something that on the eve of super tuesday with 14 states voting, he's decided to do this big event in texas, staking a claim there in texas. but with this slew of endorsements, including beto o'rourke, including nevada senator harry reid, including pete buttigieg, including amy klobuchar, does this potentially give him a better shot in texas? >> things are looking good for joe biden, rachel, but there are a lot of factors out there that they're still unknowns. just a minute ago you were talking about the bloomberg effect. i think this is a really big issue here in texas given the brand of democratic politics in texas. it's not as progressive as it is in california. so this is an area where a bloomberg can play well. also we saw buttigieg playing moderately well as well. so when we're looking at what's going to happen tomorrow, we need to take into co
joining us now for some texas perspective is victoria defrancesco soto, assistant dean of public affairs at the university of texas. great to have you here. thanks for making time for us. >> sure thing, rachel. >> so this dallas event for joe biden, it means something that on the eve of super tuesday with 14 states voting, he's decided to do this big event in texas, staking a claim there in texas. but with this slew of endorsements, including beto o'rourke, including nevada senator...
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texas. let's bring in our guests, assistant dean of the lbj school of public affairs at the university of texasc contributor. er to devito, of way to win. oscar silva, battleground texas, a group working to register new texas voters. and emmy ruiz is back with you. victoria, i want the start with you. we look at a lot of polls, i think people are skeptical of a lot of the polls. when you look at the polls coming out of texas who do they tell you? what do they not tell you? >> let's start with the bernie sanders numbers. we have a whole bunch of polls coming out of texas over the last two weeks. what you see is about this ten percentage point wiggle room are some polls have bernie sanders at the top with about 25% of the vote. others have him at about 35. whether he indians ends up in the mid 30s range and really crushes joe biden and everybody else is going to depend on one thing -- latino youth voter turnout. we know that latinos here in texas are the fastest growing population. the average age the latino here in texas and nationally is much younger than the average non-latino white and also a
texas. let's bring in our guests, assistant dean of the lbj school of public affairs at the university of texasc contributor. er to devito, of way to win. oscar silva, battleground texas, a group working to register new texas voters. and emmy ruiz is back with you. victoria, i want the start with you. we look at a lot of polls, i think people are skeptical of a lot of the polls. when you look at the polls coming out of texas who do they tell you? what do they not tell you? >> let's start...
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food and drug administration formerly the chief executive of the university of texas cancer center. of you are not getting much sleep these days. we thank you for your willingness to serve the american people in the way you do and we look forward to your testimony. >> thank you so much, chairman alexander, ranking member murray and members of the committee. cbcs role in this whole of government pull of society response is built on decades of the infectious disease experience and pandemic influenza and other emergency preparedness planning. our response is dependent on support for the core public-health capabilities and a network of dedicated front-line public-health workers at the state and local level living in your communities. two months into this response to a novel virus, the cdc has learned a lot. we've acted nimbly in the united states and around the world, but they do so with humility about the work ahead. there are many things each of us can do as individuals, businesses, communities and organizations and we are thrilled to see the website thae posted the high-end of the sen
food and drug administration formerly the chief executive of the university of texas cancer center. of you are not getting much sleep these days. we thank you for your willingness to serve the american people in the way you do and we look forward to your testimony. >> thank you so much, chairman alexander, ranking member murray and members of the committee. cbcs role in this whole of government pull of society response is built on decades of the infectious disease experience and pandemic...
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joining us to explain why all of this matters to you, victoria defrancesco soto, dean at the university of texas, and a super delegate. charlie sikes, and steve israel. congressman, you know i'm going to you first. a few weeks ago i practically gave you a hook, a gong, i told you you were crazy, and i was wrong. how do you feel now? >> right now i feel good. of course i do e. and i know the biden campaign does, but we have a lot of work ahead of us. there's a lot of race to be run. we have to unite this party. this is going to be a difficult election, and the only path is with a united party. i've run a lot of races. there's nothing tougher when as a candidates, you look at the math and you know it's not going to work, but your foalers, your volunteers are telling you to keep going, keep going i'm hoping that the path to defeat donald trump is a united democrat ecparty. charlie, last night i know you wrote that the democratic race is done he's truly leading a movement, bernie sanders. >> yes, but this is a campaign and ultimately it's a decision about whether or not donald trump gets four more y
joining us to explain why all of this matters to you, victoria defrancesco soto, dean at the university of texas, and a super delegate. charlie sikes, and steve israel. congressman, you know i'm going to you first. a few weeks ago i practically gave you a hook, a gong, i told you you were crazy, and i was wrong. how do you feel now? >> right now i feel good. of course i do e. and i know the biden campaign does, but we have a lot of work ahead of us. there's a lot of race to be run. we...
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. >> our special continues with a visit to the university of texas at san antonio special collectionsto hear about the southwest voter registration education product and the impact it had on
. >> our special continues with a visit to the university of texas at san antonio special collectionsto hear about the southwest voter registration education product and the impact it had on
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theso the truth is that origins of this lecture date back to my time at the university of texas, when i was beginning as a law professor. and i was writing a paper that touched on brown and i wanted to cite this document, the southern manifesto, for the proposition that it was openly and the was aly racist, and it victim and racism. i went and i got a copy of the southern manifesto and i read it once, and i'd read it twice, and it did not say what i thought it said. and so i thought maybe there's really something to this project and i'm going to take it up. and so i'm very grateful to the supreme court historical society for inviting me to talk about this document that's largely been forgotten today. being here is a true honor for me. ok, on march 12, 1950 six, united states senator walter george read aloud a document on the senate floor that was formally called the declaration of constitutional principles. just about no one called it that. everyone called it instead the southern manifesto, including the people who signed it. it's a document that 19 senators and 77 congressman signed,
theso the truth is that origins of this lecture date back to my time at the university of texas, when i was beginning as a law professor. and i was writing a paper that touched on brown and i wanted to cite this document, the southern manifesto, for the proposition that it was openly and the was aly racist, and it victim and racism. i went and i got a copy of the southern manifesto and i read it once, and i'd read it twice, and it did not say what i thought it said. and so i thought maybe...
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doctor michael che and infectious disease specialist with the university of texas health science center as our source for this. he explains that wearing a mask when you are not sick essentially gives you that you don't need to wash your hands often and not touch your face is much because many of them asked that lay people where made of cheap paper or cloth their ill-fitting and they allow seepage around the mouth beyond that ctor chang explained mask can be uncomfortable and that may force a person to touch their face more often exactly what you don't want to do if your hands have been contaminated with the virus and then there's the problem of removing the mask, many lay people use the same asked over and over again when you remove the mask contamination can occur when you take it off and then put it back on now there is one way that a mass will help you because covid 19 is spread by droplets coughed out by an infected person if you have the symptoms of the disease then wear a mask to help prevent the transmission of those particles and keep from infecting others working for you to dis
doctor michael che and infectious disease specialist with the university of texas health science center as our source for this. he explains that wearing a mask when you are not sick essentially gives you that you don't need to wash your hands often and not touch your face is much because many of them asked that lay people where made of cheap paper or cloth their ill-fitting and they allow seepage around the mouth beyond that ctor chang explained mask can be uncomfortable and that may force a...