Friday, October 4, 2019 | 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | BMCC Library Reading Nook
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The radical reading group is a space for students, faculty and staff to come together to read, discuss, and think together about radical ideas that are all too often not a part of the everyday discourse of our political world. The radical reading group has teamed up with the BMCC Library, which hosts the events and adds each radical book to its collection, offering a limited number of copies of each book to students on a first come, first served basis. The group meets once a month, on the 4th Wednesday from 4-6pm in the library “reading nook” to the left of the main entrance, to discuss a book and other activism and organizing the members are interested or involved in. The group operates on a consensus model of decision making, meaning that everyone has a say in how the group runs and what books are read.
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AY 2019 – 2020 Schedule
Fall 2019: Environmental Issues
October 4
A Paradise Built in Hell : The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
November 1
Mourning nature : hope at the heart of ecological loss and grief. Author: Ashlee Cunsolo; Karen Landman
December 6
The Handmaid’s Tale. Author: Margaret Atwood
The Testaments. Author: Margaret Atwood
Spring 2020: Structural Violences/Racism
February 7
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None. Author: Kathryn Yusoff
Anthropocene or Capitalocene? : Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism. Author: Christian Parenti; Jason W Moore
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene : reflections on the end of a civilization. Author: Roy Scranton
March 6 – Prisons
Locked In : The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform. Author:John Pfaff
Carceral Capitalism. Author: Hui Wang
Are Prisons Obsolete? Author:Angela Y Davis; Steve Freeman
April 3 – Colleges
Ebony and Ivy Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities. Author: Wilder, Craig Steven.; Allen, Corey
The undercommons : fugitive planning & black study. Author: Stefano Harney; Fred Moten
May 1 – Literary responses
The Alphabet ; Verses ; The Ghetto : poems. Jessica Care Moore
The fourth century = Le quatrième siècle. Édouard Glissant; Betsy Wing
Citizen : an American lyric by Stephen Sachs; Claudia Rankine
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