Gail Garfield was one of my 'progeny,' a dissertation I was very
pleased to have chaired many years back. Her most recent book is
TIGHTROPE: A RACIAL JOURNEY TO THE AGE OF OBAMA. More than autobiography,
it's a fine example of 'autoethnography,' of applying the sociological
imagination to one's own life. She's my colleague at CUNY now, at John Jay
College and they invited
me to participate in a panel to celebrate the publication of the book.
I'm just a ten minute bit of this one hour panel, but listening to this may
well make you run out and read the book! So it's well worth posting
for that.
Click here to watch the video.