CAT 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Oatmeal, Asian Americans, Grace Lee Boggs
12 Apr 2017
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American revolutionary: the evolution of grace lee boggs. Grace lee, filmmaker, goes to grace lee boggs home to converse with her. Met her 10 years ago for an earlier documentary because she was a. When grace was 85, they could barely keep up with her. Influential; been trying to wage a revolution for the past 70 years. Great philosopher, how did she go about this; go back 70 years to when she was younger. College at age 16; still an upper class culture. Didn"t want to be different so she ran for office, became vp. Union square was full of people because of the depression. She was not an activist growing up, but she saw what was going on with her family. Her parents came here as immigrants; mother wasn"t educated, father owned a chinese restaurant. Decided to drop classes and take up philosophy. Went to usc as a guest speaker. Talked about her experiences and how her perspectives developed.
