Join us for the 4th Annual Boatwright Summer Book Club! In support of the university’s Thriving and Inclusive Community strategic goal, Boatwright Library, along with the CCE and Faculty Hub, will be hosting a summer reading group. This year we will read selected chapters and essays on the theme of Education for Freedom, including works by Tressie McMillan Cottom, Paulo Freire, Audre Lorde, Resmaa Menakem, and Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang.
The selected texts can be accessed here. Readings will be available two weeks before the sessions (Must have Richmond email to access)
Tue May 25, 12:00 - 1:00 PM (EDT)Pedagogy of the Oppressed; Teaching to Trangress - (Freire & hooks)
Tue Jun 8, 12:00 - 1:00 PM (EDT) How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor)
Tue Jun 22, 12:00 - 1:00 PM (EDT) My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies; Thick: And Other Essays (Menakem and McMillan Cottom)
Tue Jul 13, 12:00 - 1:00 PM (EDT) Decolonization is Not a Metaphor; Maslow Got It Wrong (Tuck, Wang & Ravilochan)
Tue Jul 20, 12:00 - 1:00 PM (EDT) The Master's Tools [...]; Your Silence Will Not Protect You (Lorde)
You can find the link to register for the sessions here. You’re welcome to attend all of these or only a few as your schedule allows. A reminder will be sent out via our registration system prior to the event.
Thank you for joining us and we look forward to seeing you!
We have previously read
On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life - Sara Ahmed
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom - bell hooks
Algorithims of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism - Safiya Noble