Junot Díaz's Keynote Speech at Facing Race 2012 [Excerpt]

http://arc.org/facingrace Author Junot Díaz, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and the Macarthur Foundation 'Genius' Grant, delivers the keynote at the Facing Race 2012 conference in Baltimore, Maryland on November 16, 2012.

For legal reasons, we can only show you the first 25 minutes of his 90-minute talk - please enjoy!

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[Sharmeen Khan]

Please post the whole talk. I wanna hear more!!

[chalkertea]

Is there anywhere we can find the full speech?

[Bastette24]

I don't know what rock I've been living under but I just learned of Junot Diaz (watched his talk from the Library of Congress's channel) and now I have a new writer crush!!

[acalleja1010]

Awesome!!



[prariespring]

This was amazing and one of the best deconstructions/ruminations on male privilege that I've heard. I also like the last question the best. I love his answer but I'm not sure whether it gets to the bottom of fishers in the movement. I'm very interested in this because it is a real and debilitating problem ... but I will think on his answer more as well

I'm also dying for the whole talk. is there a reason it can't be posted?

[PachamamaLuke]

PLEASE post the whole thing! It was revelatory! We need the WHOLE thing!

[Teri Henderson]

Is there a way we can get a transcript of the conference?

[gabrielle rivera]

Wow, this is so amazing, I'd absolutely love to hear the whole thing

[Solvuar]

I would ABSOLUTELY love to hear the rest of the speech again! He was amazing!

[Sharmeen Khan]

I think the question is around people in Leftist movements, who ascribe to progressive/revolutionary work are still oppressive to each other. So - we still value people based on normative assumptions of beauty, still lie to each other, use each other sexually and so forth. He is pointing out a deep contradiction that revolutionaries have analysis for political systems but don't interrogate how that impacts our personal lives and our treatment of one another.