{"id":332,"date":"2014-02-25T06:50:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T13:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/?p=332"},"modified":"2014-02-27T13:34:14","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T20:34:14","slug":"for-thurs-feb-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/2014\/02\/for-thurs-feb-27\/","title":{"rendered":"For Thurs Feb 27"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Today, instead of meeting in our regular classroom, head across May Street to the back end of the Temple Emanuel building for a special lecture at 10:00 am by James McBride, titled “The American Dream Reimagined: Race, Ethnicity and Education.” I will take attendance, so be sure to check in with me either before or after he speaks.<\/p>\n

Speaker Bio: James McBride is a renaissance man and a born storyteller. He is the author of Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother<\/em>, a moving narrative about his mother, a white Jewish woman from Poland who married a black man, founded a Baptist church, and put 12 children through college. The Color of Water<\/em> is an American classic, read in colleges and high schools nationwide. It has sold more than two million copies and spent two years on the New York Time Bestseller List. His new book, The Good Lord Bird<\/em>, a 417-page novel that is rooted in the true story of slavery, won this year’s National Book Award. A graduate of Oberlin College and the Columbia School of Journalism, McBride has written for The Boston Globe<\/em>, People<\/em>, and The Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n

After the lecture, please post a comment (using the box below) giving some feedback and perhaps a discussion question\/your impressions on the event. If you don’t see a comment box, click on the title of this post to bring it up at the foot of the post and to see others’ comments. How did McBride’s lecture connect to what we’ve read in this unit? Did it resolve and synthesize what we’ve focused on in this unit, or did it bring up more questions for you? Do you think, given what he had to say, that the civil rights movement as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King participated in it has been realized (and according to whose vision?), or that its achievements have been subsequently dismantled in the U.S.? What do you wish we could talk about as a class after hearing him speak?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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