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. ♪ on our bookshelf tonight, pulitzer prize winning journalist wesley lowery examines the pattern of that follows racial progress in america, including the recent white supremacist violence that surged following barack obama's presidency. lowery recently sat down with geoff bennett to discuss his findings, which he details in his new book, "american whitelash: a changing nation and the cost of progress." reporter: wesley lowery joins us now. welcome back to the newshour. in the book, you look at how and why racist violence has spiked since the election of barack obama. and you write, “the election of a esk blt idprnodienhet d us racist past, rather, it let us down a perilous path and into a decade and a half and counting of explicit racial thrashing.” pick it up from there. >> think about what we've seen in the time since president obama's election. the rise of a nativist movement hyper-concerned with immigration and refugees that vowed to ban muslims from coming into the country and ultimately was able to elect president trump. we've seen a rise of a civil rights movement of young,

this week, it's pulitzer prize winning journalist wesley lowery. on his new book, american white lash a changing nation and the cost of progress. he's interviewed by columbia university's jelani cobb. here's a portion. if our country was founded on an explicitly white supremacist system in that people who were coded under law as white had claim to the full promise of american freedom, while people who were coded as black did not have claim to that promise, which is just the fact of how we were founded, is what it looked like. the that that system, as a white supremacist system, is a system that prioritizes some places above others, people who are coded as white. we've seen steps over our history to undo that and to create a multiracial democracy. when those steps date back to the revolts of enslaved people, a date to the abolitionist movement, the civil war. i. emancipation and reconstruction. the date to the civil rights movement in the fifties and sixties. and they date to the steps towards the election of a black president. in each of those inci

eastern on afterwards, wesley lowerys that moments of progress in race matters are often met with the acts of violence in his book american whitelash. watch tv every sunday on c-span2. or watch online anytime. >> sunday on q&a, felix salmon, author of the phoenix economy, talks about the economic impact of the covid-19 pandemic, some a bit surprisingly positive. >> the pandemic gave us this yolo theme that is throughout the book. creativity creates art and commerce and companies. i think that is one of the big reasons i am optimistic is that i just see opportunity of creativity more broadly distributed than it has ever been. people anywhere in the world can really change the planet. i think we are only at the beginning of seeing a huge opportunity that was engendered by us being forced to take another look at our lives. >> felix salmon with his book the phoenix economy sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on q&a. >> congress returns tuesday for legislative business and vos. the house will consider its first 2024peing bill. current government funding expireseember 30. the senateegs tuesda

eastern on "after words" pulitzer prize-winning journalist wesley lowery argue moments of progress andrace matters in use are often met with acts of violence in his book american white flash. >> watch booktv every sunday on c-span2 and by the full schedule under program guide or watch online anytime at booktv.org. >> a healthy democracy doesn't just look like this it looks like this. what americans can see democracy at work, were citizens and are truly informed, a republic thrives. did inform straight from the source on c-span. unfiltered, unbiased, word for word from the nation's capital to where ever you are. because the opinion that matters most is your own. this is what democracy looks like. c-span powered by cable. >> and now the commission on security and cooperation in europe also known as the helsinki commission holds a hearing on allegations of russian evading sanctions for money

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question, at least the framing about how backlash works, makes a part of the new book, by journalist wesley lowery we reported from ferguson, missouri, during the 2014 protest, that followed the police killing of teenager michael brown, covering it all extensively with his calling to the washington post, he was even arrested at one point, documenting the encounter on his phone. later writing about the experience. 2016, lowry won the pulitzer prize for his fatal force project, which established a database, the first of its kind ever on police shootings nationwide. mr. leathery's book, american whitelash, is out now i'm glad to have you here tonight. wesley, welcome, congrats on the book. i want to start with this framing of progress, backlash, as a kind of familiar encyclical to step in the story of american racial progress. in particularly, reconstruction in the redemption civil rights movement, backlash to that. barack obama being elected president, and what came after that. now, how you think about those cycles as the framing device for the book. >> of course, things are having me, chris. i real

. >> now on book tv's program "afterw -- "after words", wesley lowery. welcome. mr. lowry. i think i can you mr. lowry, i've been calling you

. >> now on book tv's program "afterw -- "after words", wesley lowery. welcome. mr. lowry. i think i can you mr. lowry, i've been calling you wes all these years. it's to be with you today. and i'm looking forward to talking about the book. you know, thing tt i think is usually a good starting place is that in my experience it's a book doesn't come together or the idea for a book doesn't come all at usually it's like maybe experiences or disparate bits of information that, you know, gradually the themes become more visible you and you realize that you know there's a subject to be written. so i wondered if you could give before we get into the substance of how you did the book and so on, i wondered if you could give a kind of overview of the idea for the book to you. of course, i really appreciate it. dean cobb or as i know the you know, i, i think that when i think about this book in, this project, you know, i go back to 2016 when we saw the end of the first black presidency a the of a candidate who had run an opened nativist campaign campaigning on a kind of racialized hos

stn on afterwards, bullets are prize-winning journalist wesley lowery argues ogress and race matterse u.s. are often met with active violence in his book american white lash. he is interviewed by columbia university's gelati thomas. watch book tv every sunday on c-span2, find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online anytime at book tv.org. -- booktv.org. announcer: "washington journal" continues. host: welcome back. almost half-hour tell then to the program a tonic like him eastern, we will be taking your calls. it is your top new story of the week. let's start with james in et hartford, connecticut, democrat, good morning. caller: thank you for c-span for having the program on where people can honestly get to hear on their own rather -- here on their own rather than the new spin. the topic from the whistleblowers, it seems like sour grapes. our government and country has been running on influence and people making decisions. they do not agree with the decisions their supervisors made, then they can voice it, they have the right to voice it. the influence it does is dama