he wrote about it for w.e.b. dubois.e other period, of course, would be the harlem renaissance. >> hinojosa: mm-hmm. >> the harlem renaissance, which was a time of... well, it's the... historian david levering lewis puts it, "it was civil rights through art." black people had the idea-- which was a not very efficacious idea, but they had an idea-- that they could change the image of the race vis-à-vis white people who doubted our ancestor's intellectual integrity and intellectual capacities by creating great literature and art. so there was this big revolution of writing and it was called the harlem renaissance, but it led to renaissances throughout the caribbean and even in africa. you know, the négritude movement, which was started by a martinican, aimé césaire, and léopold senghor, who went on to become the first president of senegal, they were students at the sorbonne. they heard about the harlem renaissance and they created the négritude movement starting in 1934. and langston hughes, probably the most googled and s

workers and white workers' racism and adherence to white supremacy but for the manipulation of what w.e.b. dubois called the psychological wage of whiteness which is the way of saying to white people who don't have a pot to piss in, it's okay, at least you're not black. without that, the class system in this country would not be nearly as strong. the purpose of the book is to explore how inequality gets rationalized. and it was, you know, as you heard, it's happening within black space, internal to black space. it's also happening within white says space, and it happens in this country because we've been condition today believe -- conditioned to believe where you end up is all about you. justifying inequality. in old european feudal systems, if you were a pez sam, you damn well knew you were a peasant. you weren't going to be royalty. you were out, you were done. but in this country we have an ideology that says, no, you're poor today, but you're going to run this tomorrow. you can be a ceo, you can be president, a millionaire, billionaire. poor folk in england would have said, that's cra

i want to start off with the fact that w.e.b. due boys wrote -- duboise wrote the problem with the 20th century is the problem with the color line. there were frequent media assertions of a postracial america after the election of barack obama. meanwhile, earlier this year on a flight to selma, alabama, for the 50th anniversary of bloody sunday, i asked president obama after he completed his eight years in the oval office, would he consider america postracial or post-obama? now, listen to what he said to me. he said, quote: i think there's no doubt that my election was a significant moment in this country's racial history. i say that with all humility. and then later in his answer he went on to say. i wouldn't equate my election with seminal moments like the emancipation proclamation or the pass passage of the civil rights act of 1964. those were massive changes in legal status that represented fundamental breaks with america's tragic history. he also said they were the pillars, the 13th amendment, the 14th amendment, the 15th am

there is a picture of w.e.b. dubois and my father consecrating my sister and i. and of course at the time, you mean elbert einstein and you know he is a famous person. but if you are seven or eight years old you don't have any he is.preciation for who and i don't imagine it's any different from any other child growing up on any other small liberal arts college campuses anyplace else in the country except this was a special place. lincoln was thought of as the princeton. founded originally to train missionaries to go to africa and then became a regular liberal arts college of some great distinction. it really educated the cream of the crop. whoe were young people couldn't go to their state universities or private university, didn't want to go to the state-supported black colleges. lincoln was a prestigious school. >> so you take that heritage and you go to the george school for your high school years. >> the local public high school -- the lower grade schools were one room school's. s. you are really getting educated or three times over.two and they really weren't

that -- w.e.b. thought that the black community should be more outspoken and that the government policies were going awfully slow and that they have the right to do certain things and they wanted to fight for them. they organize what was known originally as the niagara movement to champion this call. to hit the streets, to organize throughout all the states and bring them through the organization that was going to bring about change and give their owncolor first-class citizenship in the united states. unfortunately it did not last that long. 1905 andganized in disbanded in 1908. out of that came the naacp that then organized in 1909. that's why they say today that the niagara movement was the precursor to the naacp. nash became the spokesperson for them because as i said before his relationship with the larger community being able to speak the language and having a college education that was unusual for a baptist minister. -- his primary concern was how to build the church -- how to keep that togeth