Lectures tagged "Identity"


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John Callahan and Adam Bradley on Ralph Ellison
John Callahan
February 8, 2010
00:49:33
Editors John Callahan and Adam Bradley discuss Ralph Ellison's posthumously-published second novel Three Days Before the Shooting. At his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind roughly two thousand pages of his unfinished second novel, which he had spent nearly four decades writing.
Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates
William Grant
February 4, 2010
00:50:50
Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. executive producer William R. Grant and producer Stephen Ives discuss the series with Dr. David Altshuler, a clinical endocrinologist and human geneticist from the Broad Institute.
Clearing Our Path: The Journey to Deeper Understanding
Lois Grant
August 2, 2009
00:57:17
Dr. Lois Grant discusses the many things people run across along the journey to deeper understanding. She offers some practical advice and methodology using theosophical precepts to help remove obstacles created by the lower ego.
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Mary Alice Monroe: Time Is A River
Mary Alice Monroe
July 10, 2008
00:49:27
Mary Alice Monroe discusses her latest novel, Time Is A River. It's the story of Mia Landan, a woman healing from divorce in a remote cabin by a river.
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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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Carola and Marcelo Suarez-Orozco: Educational Pathways of Immigrant Youth
Carola Suarez-Orozco
October 23, 2006
01:21:46
Carola and Marcelo Suarez-Orozco describe and discuss determinants of success of among children in their longitudinal study of immigrant youth in this nation's educational system.
IDEAS Boston Youth Summit: Dr. Michael Rich
Michael Rich
May 3, 2006
00:21:17
Michael Rich discusses his experience as a former Hollywood filmmaker and as a current professor at Harvard's Medical and Public Health schools.
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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.