{"id":7591,"date":"2019-07-29T08:36:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T13:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/?p=7591"},"modified":"2019-07-29T08:36:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T13:36:29","slug":"summer-reading-thought-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/2019\/07\/29\/summer-reading-thought-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reading Thought Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Note: This includes the fifth set of thought questions related to Austin Channing Brown\u2019s book,\u00a0<\/em>I\u2019m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thought\u00a0Questions\u00a0for July 29\u00a0<\/strong>(pages 131-164)<br \/>\nChapter 10: The Ritual of Fear<br \/>\nChapter 11: A God of the Accused<br \/>\nChapter 12: We\u2019re Still Here<br \/>\nInterlude: A Letter to My Son<\/p>\n<p>Ta-Nehisi Coates writes in <em>The Atlantic<\/em>, \u201cas many of our sharper activists and writers have pointed out, America\u2019s struggle is to become not post-racial, but post-racist. Put differently, we should seek not a world where the black race and the white race live in harmony, but a world in which the terms <em>black<\/em> and <em>white<\/em> have no real political meaning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though Austin was incredibly joyous by the election of the first Black president, Austin wasn\u2019t convinced that America had become post-racial. Were you hopeful that America had become post-racial with the election of Barack Obama (even if you voted for another candidate)?<\/p>\n<p>How do you define the difference between post-racial and post-racist?<\/p>\n<p>Because Austin was pregnant as she wrote this book, she includes a letter to her son where she talks openly about the difficulties her son may face in his future and welcoming him into \u201ca divine community of hope.\u201d If you were to write a letter to someone you love, in what ways would you express how you hope America will change for the better?<\/p>\n<p>Laura Bolin Carroll, Ph.D.<br \/>\nExecutive Director, Adams Center for Teaching and Learning<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>Next Reading<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>August 12<\/strong> (pages 165-182)<br \/>\nChapter 13: Justice, Then Reconciliation<br \/>\nChapter 14: Standing in the Shadow of Hope<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: This includes the fifth set of thought questions related to Austin Channing Brown\u2019s book,\u00a0I\u2019m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness. Thought\u00a0Questions\u00a0for July 29\u00a0(pages 131-164) Chapter 10: The Ritual of Fear Chapter 11: A God of the Accused Chapter 12: We\u2019re Still Here Interlude: A Letter to My Son Ta-Nehisi Coates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7592,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7591\/revisions\/7592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}