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Each year, the One Book...One Campus...One Community program hosts a series of events for the campus and the community. Previous events have included author visits, film screenings, book readings, discussions, and more.
Wednesday, Sept. 20, 1-2 p.m., Hawthorn Hall 200
Cecy Villaruel will provide an introduction to Luis Alberto Urrea's "The Devil's Highway."
Thursday, Sept. 28, 1 p.m., Bergland Auditorium and Zoom
A reading with Q&A followed by a reception with poet Martin Espada, winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry for "Floaters." The hybrid event will take place via Zoom and at IU Northwest's Berlgand Auditorium.
Thursday, March 28, 2024, TBA, Arts & Sciences Building Mainstage Theater
A reading with Q&A followed by a reception with Luis Alberto Urrea, author of "The Devil's Highway."
September 29, 2021
Led by Assistant Professor of psychology, Dr. Hannah Lee, t he first book discussion prepared attendees to read the book critically and with an open mind. Dr. Lee discussed research designs and measurements in social psychology, including the Implicit Association Tests (IATs) that the authors of "Blindspot" developed. By understanding the research methods of the evidence cited in the book, readers may better approach the claims and purpose of the text. It is recommended that attendees read at least the first three chapters before viewing the recorded session.
October 7, 2021
David Masciotra read from and discussed his 2020 book, "I Am Somebody: Why Jesse Jackson Matters."
David’s book addresses the theme of this year’s One Book program of Implicit Bias and Uncomfortable Conversations. In exploring why Jesse Jackson matters, David suggests the neglect and underestimation of his role as an organizer and negotiator and politician is a product of both explicit bias that exists in our politics, media, and news reporting, and an implicit bias that is too accepting of misleading and incomplete accounts of Jackson’s ongoing campaigns for civils rights and economic justice.
David Masciotra teaches courses in writing and literature at Indiana University Northwest, and is a frequent contributor of columns, interviews, and reviews to a range of publications such as LA Review of Books, No Depression, Crime Reads and several others, and is regular columnist on Salon.com.
October 20, 2021
Dr. James Wallace, from the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Multicultural Affairs led a session of the (Don’t) Guess My Race Game, an interactive, web-based application that delivers a fun, engaging and effective diversity and inclusion learning experience for students.
November 11, 2021
Clinical Assistant Professor of English Doug Swartz led an eye-opening discussion and writing activity that dove deep into the book and left attendees self-reflecting on their own biases.
November 17, 2021
The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at 16, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. In "The Vanishing Half," a novel by Brit Bennet, many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. This discussion focused on the story's implications for the next generation, when the twins own daughters' storylines will intersect.
January 27, 2022
Dr. James Wallace, from the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Multicultural Affairs will lead a session of the (Don’t) Guess My Race Game, an interactive, web-based application that delivers a fun, engaging and effective diversity and inclusion learning experience for students.
January 2022
Heather McGhee’s, “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together” is a brilliant analysis of how we arrived here: divided and self-destructing, materially rich but spiritually starved, and vastly unequal. Hear McGhee’s heartfelt message from a Black woman to a multiracial America that leaves us with a new vision for a future in which we finally realize that life can be more than a zero-sum game.
