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{SPEAKER name="John Jeffries"}
not connected to popular culture in any way with these social scientists whose names we don't recognize.
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So having said that, at the risk of sounding, defensive.
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Being defensive is good sometimes.
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Survival mechanism. My folks know that.
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Um, one of the reason that you don't recognize our names is because we are renegades of society.
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It is the things that we talk about, not only social and scientific, now I'll deal with that column in a second,
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but it also is connected to culture.
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As we see that as being important.
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We have been uh, re-informed by cultural critics that if,
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not only if other people are to hear us, but if our analyses are to be better informed,
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culture must be a piece of the puzzle.
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Now, um, unless you think I'm goin' be deferring to culture,
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I'm goin' to get back to that in a second.
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I want to focus on a couple of things in the time that I have— a couple of things.
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Five things in the time that I, see [[inaudible]] make it count.
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In the time I have left, in thinking about the urban context.
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[[background noise]] One, and I'll mention them first and then I'll kinda go through.
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One is that you must understand culture and urban culture in particular with reference to the social construction of race.
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In particular, the social construction of race that takes place in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,
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and more specifically that takes place in the United States
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with its increasing reliance on legitimacy based on this thing called science.
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Second thing that's absolutely essential,
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at the risk of saying something at an unpopular in this postmodern time,
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is the black communities' intellectual and personal frustration with the Enlightenment
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Into two
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