Lectures tagged "Culture"


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Celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage
Phoebe Eng
March 30, 2007
00:44:57
Phoebe Eng relates stories about crossing cultural borders, discipline borders, and borders across generations.
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Mixed: My Life in Black and White
Angela Nissel
March 23, 2006
01:02:12
Angela Nissel recounts moving between black inner-city schools and white prep schools; college experiments with black activism; capitalizing on her "exotic" look at a strip club; and generally being a "mixed" girl in a mixed-up world.
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How Free Blacks from Boston Changed America
Stephen Kendrick
February 24, 2006
01:00:19
Steven Kendrick and Paul Kendrick discuss the 1847 Massachusetts Supreme Court case of schoolgirl Sarah Roberts, and the lasting impact it made in American history.
Left Hand of God: Responding to the Religious Right
Reb. Michael Lerner
February 9, 2006
01:22:05
Internationally renowned theologian Rabbi Michael Lerner examines the new roles that religion and faith play in American political life in his new book The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right.
Nigga': It's Just a Word or is It?
Tim Wise
February 8, 2006
01:52:34
This panel discussion, moderated by Davarian Baldwin, assistant professor in the Boston College history department, examines the implications of the word 'nigger' or 'nigga'' as it is used in the mass media.
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Chronicles of Narnian: C.S. Lewis and the Culture Wars
Alan Jacobs
January 18, 2006
01:14:24
Alan Jacobs discusses his new biography of C.S. Lewis, author of the beloved children's books, The Chronicles of Narnia, and how Lewis and his work got swept up in America's contemporary culture wars.