{"id":2173,"date":"2017-02-14T10:03:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T18:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/artsandhumanities\/?page_id=2173"},"modified":"2017-02-14T10:11:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T18:11:14","slug":"discussion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/artsandhumanities\/discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/02\/The_New_Jim_Crow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2174\" src=\"\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/02\/The_New_Jim_Crow-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"The New Jim Crow Book Dicussion\" width=\"265\" height=\"403\" \/><\/a><em>Submitted by Nan Ma<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #008000\">Charlene Freyberg<\/span> <\/strong>(Criminal Justice) and <strong><span style=\"color: #008000\">David Spataro<\/span> <\/strong>(Political Science) will be facilitating a discussion of Michelle Alexander&#8217;s <strong><span style=\"color: #216496\"><em>The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness<\/em> <\/span><\/strong>on <span style=\"color: #008000\">2\/23 at 12:30pm in C120.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>**Please consider taking your classes to this event and\/or giving your students extra credit for attending.<\/p>\n<p>I have excerpted a description of the book from the publisher&#8217;s website below:<\/p>\n<p><em>The New Jim Crow<\/em>\u00a0is a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States, one that has resulted in millions of African Americans locked behind bars and then relegated to a permanent second-class status\u2014denied the very rights supposedly won in the Civil Rights Movement. Since its publication in 2010, the book has appeared on the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0bestseller list for more than a year; been dubbed the \u201csecular bible of a new social movement\u201d by numerous commentators, including\u00a0Cornel West;\u00a0and has led to consciousness-raising efforts in universities, churches, community centers, re-entry centers, and prisons nationwide.\u00a0<em>The New Jim Crow<\/em>\u00a0tells a truth our nation has been reluctant to face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted by Nan Ma Charlene Freyberg (Criminal Justice) and David Spataro (Political Science) will be facilitating a discussion of Michelle Alexander&#8217;s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness on 2\/23 at 12:30pm in C120. **Please &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/artsandhumanities\/discussion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2173","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/artsandhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/artsandhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/artsandhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/artsandhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/artsandhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/artsandhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2177,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/artsandhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2173\/revisions\/2177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/artsandhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}