The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Empire’s Workshop Redux: Reading the Social Crisis in the U.S. through a Latin American Lens
The George and Ann Platt Distinguished Lecture at the Institute for the Study of the Americas will be given by Greg Grandin, the Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History at Yale University. Greg Grandin is a Pulitzer Prize winning author and recipient of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Gradin has published widely acclaimed books, including
Empire’s Workshopand
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America.
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When Gonzaga University professor Tod Marshall began helping to plan the university s 4th Annual Race and Racism Lecture, he decided to do something different. The former state poet laureate wanted to include as many people as possible after a summer of racial justice protests and a contentious election. So he reached out to local teachers to engage high school students in advance of Wednesday s lecture.
The guest for this year’s Race and Racism Lecture at Gonzaga is poet and Yale University professor Claudia Rankine. Tod Marshall says the choice to invite Claudia Rankine to speak had a lot to do with her 2014 book,
6 things to do this week: Tom Grant Band reunion, Valentine’s drive-in, and poet Ross Gay
Updated Feb 12, 2021;
It’s Valentine’s Day weekend and love is in the air, or on the air, due to coronavirus restrictions. For the days ahead, we’ve gathered both love-themed, and non-holiday events, including a poetry reading, sappy movies, and the reunion of an 1980s-90s iconic Portland jazz band.
Cast photo of My Funny Valentine - left to right: Alan Anderson, Debbie Hunter, Tim Smith, Joan Freed, and Norman Wilson.Photo courtesy of Lakewood Theatre
“My Funny Valentine”
Lakewood Theatre Company’s offers a look back at a one-night, sold-out fundraising performance filled with comic love songs from stage musicals. The musical revue was recorded on the Lakewood mainstage in 2014 and stars Lakewood performers in an evening of songs filled with clever lyrics, theatrical mishap stories, and audience participation games.
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ByTamara Shiloh
‘Caste’
A hidden phenomenon has weaved its way through the surface of American history and defined a so-called hierarchy of human rankings: a caste system. Caste is defined as a “division of society based on differences of wealth, inherited rank or privilege, profession, occupation, or race.”
In the eye-opening book “Caste: The Origins of our Discontents”, author Isabel Wilkerson pens an artful portrait of this phenomenon in America by telling the stories of the lives of real people.
Each piece is a thoroughly researched, riveting narrative describing beyond race, class, or other factors a caste system powerful enough to influence lives and behaviors.