Reading Recommendations

Posted by Gregory on February 6, 2021 at 1:55pm

A forum thread for Reading Recommendations ...

it might be a page to keep adding to ideas for content behind the future group readings or resources that could be shared. 

Also we might be able to continue the conversation asynchronously about particular reading options. 

 

 

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  • Gregory May 28, 2021 at 9:07am

    The Ground Breaking : An American City & Its Search for Justice (Ellsworth)

    This book was just reviewed by the New York Times and is another reminder of our topic for the June 6th Sunday Conversation: History, Memory & June 4th.  The background is the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 and traces the author's lifetime of discovery about his hometown's obscured history.  Many Americans are not familiar with what has been described as a US Kristallnacht moment.  See link and excerpt from the book review. 

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/26/books/review-ground-breaking-tul...

    A Skillful Narrative of Excavating the Truth About the Tulsa Race Massacre


    By Jennifer Szalai

    • May 26, 2021


    Trying to recover a forgotten history is one thing; rescuing a history that has been actively suppressed is another.

    On May 31 and June 1, 1921, white mobs descended on the Greenwood district in Tulsa, Okla., shooting and pillaging their way through a vibrant and prosperous Black enclave, reducing it to rubble. Low-flying airplanes dropped burning turpentine balls, leaving an entire block in what one eyewitness described as “a mass of flame.” An all-white local contingent of the National Guard turned a machine gun on the Mount Zion Baptist Church, systematically raking the walls with heavy fire until the stalwart building gave way in a cascade of shattered glass and tumbling bricks.

    “At taxpayer expense, a House of God has been demolished,” Scott Ellsworth writes in “The Ground Breaking,” a new book that begins by recreating the bloody events of 100 years ago in a propulsive present tense. Ellsworth then goes on to trace the story of what has happened since, from silence and cover-up to sustained attempts to learn the full history. Last year, an excavation found mass graves that likely belong to some of those who were killed, and just last week, the massacre’s three known survivors — the youngest is 100 years old — testified before a House Judiciary committee that is considering reparations.

    Ellsworth himself is a key figure in this story. His 1982 book, “Death in a Promised Land,” was one of the first full histories of the massacre, and in 1997 he served as a consulting historian to the state-sponsored Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. A native Tulsan himself, Ellsworth grew up in the white part of town; the only Black people in his world were the men who hauled the trash on Fridays. As a child in the ’60s, he had heard nothing but vague whispers about “the riot” until he and his friends were tooling around the city’s new library one summer and decided to see what they could find with the microfilm reader.
     
     
    A Skillful Narrative of Excavating the Truth About the Tulsa Race Massacre
    Scott Ellsworth’s “The Ground Breaking” is about the 1921 massacre and all that has happened since, from silence and cover-up to sustained attempts t…
    • Melissa Englert > Gregory May 28, 2021 at 9:12am

      Thanks for the recommendation, Greg. The Tulsa Race Riots definitely need to be taught in schools. NPR's Code Switch did an interesting podcast this week called "Tulsa, 100 Years Later". 

      Tulsa, 100 Years Later : Code Switch
      In the spring of 1921, Black residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma's Greenwood neighborhood were attacked by a mob of angry white people. More than 300 people…
  • Gregory May 2, 2021 at 5:02pm

    Thanks to everyone who joined our May 2nd Sunday Conversation about travel.

     Among the ideas that were shared was a book recommendation:

    Border by Kapka Kassabova 

    This is a marvellous, personal account of the border zone between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece, from the Ottomans to cold war menace and beyond ... and here's a Guardian review if you're interested in reading more ( thanks Marcie ! ) 

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/08/border-by-kapka-kassa...

    Border by Kapka Kassabova review – magic in the corner of Europe | History books | The Guardian
    This is a marvellous, personal account of the border zone between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece, from the Ottomans to cold war menace and beyond
  • Gregory April 20, 2021 at 11:25pm

    Here's two articles that highlight student voices from this year.  I'll attach the text for the first article in case you don't have NYT access but the pictures/art for the first article is probably important to see alongside the text.    

    Teens on a Year That Changed Everything: In words, images and video, teens across the United States show us how they have met life's challenges in the midst of a pandemic.

     YearThatChangedEverything_NYT.docx

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/08/learning/teens-pandemic-art.html

     

     

    ‘I Can’t Believe I Am Going to Say This, but I Would Rather Be at School’.

    We asked students, from kindergarten to 12th grade, what it’s like to learn from home. Here’s what they had to say, in their own words — and drawings.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/us/school-at-home-students-coron...

    https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8790098266?profile=original
  • Melissa Englert February 21, 2021 at 11:05am

    Cultural Competency and Implicit Bias Articles

    The Case for Cultural Competency - ASCD

    How Implicit Bias Impacts Our Children in Education - American Bar Association

     

    The Case for Cultural Competency
  • Melissa Englert February 21, 2021 at 11:02am

    Articles on Empathy:

    Six Habits of Highly Empathic People - Greater Good Magazine

    How to Be More Empathetic - The New York Times

     

    Six Habits of Highly Empathic People
    We can cultivate empathy throughout our lives, says Roman Krznaric—and use it as a radical force for social transformation.
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