Language changes, and as convenient as it can be to use linguistic shorthand, it’s important to remember that beneath the words are ideas — the things we should be talking about.
Joseph Stiglitz, Socialist! Capitalist! Economic Systems as Weapons in a War of Words (NYtimes)
Interview By Andrew Ross Sorkin
via University of California Television (UCTV)
(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) Nell Painter combines the discursive meanings of scholarship with the visual meaning of painting, to answer, literally, why white people are called 'Caucasian,' what that looks like, and how they all relate to our ideas about personal beauty. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Council Lectures" [Humanities] [Show ID: 26025]
via WGBHForum
In "The History of White People," Nell Irvin Painter tells perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history. Beginning at the roots of Western civilization, she traces the invention of the idea of a white race — often for economic, scientific, and political ends. This lecture was presented by The Harvard Book Store and recorded on 3/29/10.
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This talk was taped on March 29, 2010.
My humorous take on this is this - According to the Greek mythology whose titan was imprisoned in the Caucasus?
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