Coping with Covid19: A helpful, hopeful call-in show
Sat, Jun 6, 202012:00 PM
Info
Hosts: Prof. Sree Sreenivasan
Topics:
BLM, Higher Education -
Synopsis:
Executive Producer: Sree Sreenivasan
Associate Producer: Krishna Sreenivasan
Guests:
Prof. Noliwe Rooks: W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Literature at Cornell’s Africana, American, and Feminist Studies programs. She’s known for her public speaking and writing in some of America’s top newspapers. She also has written a new awa - winning book, called Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education, which discusses how America’s segregated school system came to be the way it is.
Prof. Jamila Michener: assistant prof. at Cornell’s dept of gov’t. She’s got a book out now, called Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism and Unequal Politics, which discusses the political landscape for black, Latinx, and low - income Americans.