Posts Tagged ‘book’
UCI Great Big Read Book Club on Becoming ♥ ★ ✚
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UCI Great Big Read Book Club on Becoming 2/11/21 Thank you for reading Becoming by Michelle Obama for our next UCI Great Big Read discussion. Please join our co-facilitated Book Club. WHAT: Becoming Book…
Read MoreAddressing Slavery: “The Revolution Will Not Be Theorized: Cultural Revolution in the Black Power Era” ♥★
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Addressing Slavery: “The Revolution Will Not Be Theorized: Cultural Revolution in the Black Power Era” February 10, 2021, 12:00p.m. – 1:30p.m. Zoom (pre-registration required) Errol A. Henderson, Associate Professor of…
Read MoreA Racial Reckoning: Discussion of Cathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings ♥
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A Racial Reckoning: Discussion of Cathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings Discussion of “United” (chapter 1) from Minor Feelings Wednesday, February 3, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. (Pacific Time) Zoom Meeting Facilitators:…
Read MorePhantom Africa: A Discussion with Brent Hayes Edwards ♥ ★
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Phantom Africa: A Discussion with Brent Hayes Edwards Date: Thursday, May 20, 2021 Time: TBA Brent Hayes Edwards is the Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia…
Read MoreReimagining the Latinx Experience in America: Michael Olivas, Perchance to DREAM: A Legal and Political History of the DREAM Act and DACA ♥
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Reimagining the Latinx Experience in America: Michael Olivas, Perchance to DREAM: A Legal and Political History of the DREAM Act and DACA Thursday, January 28 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm Virtual Event The…
Read MoreA true story of travel, war and heroism, shared by faculty author Héctor Tobar ♥
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Héctor Tobar’s new novel, The Last Great Road Bum, tells the true story of Joe Sanderson, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador. Interviewed by Alejandro Morales (Chicano / Latino…
Read MoreExplore 1960s Los Angeles with Faculty Author Jon Wiener ♥ ★
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Join Jon Wiener (UCI History) in conversation with Daniel Widener (UCSD History) about Set the Night on Fire: LA in the Sixties, a new book by Jon Wiener and Mike Davis.…
Read MoreSlavery’s Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State ♥ ★
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The Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy presents Slavery’s Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State Book Talk with Professor Christopher P. Lehman &…
Read MoreThe Cult of the Constitution: Our Deadly Devotion to Guns and Free Speech ♥
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The Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy presents The Cult of the Constitution: Our Deadly Devotion to Guns and Free Speech Book Talk with Professor…
Read MoreThe Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race ♥ ★
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The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race by Neda Maghbouleh Publisher’s description: When Roya, an Iranian American high school student,…
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