E-mail a friendFebruary 16, 2006
Historian Gary Nash explains "historical amnesia." Poet and author Paul Beatty reflects on the state of African American humor.
Gary Nash
Gary Nash
Dr. Gary Nash is a professor of history at UCLA and Director of the National Center for History in the Schools, an organization designed to help educators teach U.S. and world history. The award-winning author is considered one of the most distinguished historians of colonial and revolutionary America. Nash oversaw the writing of the controversial National History Standards and has written several books, including Race and Revolution, History on Trial and, his latest, The Forgotten Fifth.
Paul Beatty
Paul Beatty
Village Voice calls Paul Beatty 'one of the most talented young writers to come along in many years.' The Los Angeles native, now New York resident, is an award-winning slam poet and acclaimed novelist. Author of Tuff and the satirical The White Boy Shuffle, Beatty studied with Allen Ginsberg at Brooklyn College and earned a Master's Degree in psychology from Boston University. Known for pushing the envelope, his latest work is as editor of the controversial Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor.