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Dear students, faculty, and staff,

We invite you to join the Carthage Anti-Racist Reading Group. Participants from our last round voted to select our next text: Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen: An American Lyric.”

If you are interested in joining, please sign up by 9:00 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 19.

This reading group is meant to respond to the desire among our students, faculty, and staff to develop not only a more robust vocabulary for thinking about racism in the U.S., but also to develop a stronger foundation from which we can acquire better tools for dismantling racism in our communities, large and small. Participants meet in small groups and are encouraged to discuss the readings and to link what they find to their lives, communities, and ideas for action together.

All members of the Carthage community are invited to participate.

In order to make the reading and discussion group accessible to more participants, we’re also curating a list of audio and visual texts related to the book (/lyric essay), which deals with subjects such as anti-Black racism and microaggressions, policing in America, and race and representation in mass media (including sports coverage), among other concerns. Those who wish to participate, but doubt they will have the time to dedicate to reading (/listening to) the book are still warmly encouraged to join the reading group. Those folks can prepare for discussion by engaging with whichever of the recommended podcasts, documentaries, series, and other available texts their schedule permits.

Many thanks to each of you for all that you do in and for our community.

Sending warm wishes to all,

Professor Shannon Brennan 
Professor Nina Weisling
Professor Siovahn Williams 

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:

Shannon Brennan, sbrennan@carthage.edu
Nina Weisling, nweisling@carthage.edu
Siovahn Williams, swilliams4@carthage.edu