Date/Time
Date(s) - May 16, 2022 - May 23, 2022
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Categories
Facilitators: Sally Anderson, Millie Davis, Priscilla Kron
Day: Approximately every 3rd Monday (see schedule below)
Time: 6:30-8:00pm on Zoom
Start Date: January 17, 2022
End Date: June 6, 2022
Registration: https://uucuc.breezechms.com/form/4d23e0
This is suitable for high school−adults.
Sally Anderson, Millie Davis, and Priscilla Kron invite you to continue our anti-racism journey by exploring the impact of racial stereotypes and misconceptions on marginalized communities, specifically Latinx immigrants, through literature. This discussion continues previous Antiracism Reading Group’s discussions
and our work to live into becoming a Beloved Community.
Discussions will be guided by a Covenant. Participants are not required to have attended previous classes.
| Please join us in our UUCUC book discussion of Enrique’s Journey so that together we might advance our knowledge and understanding of southern border immigration as we strive to uphold the praxis of the 8th Principle, “. . . to build a diverse and multicultural Beloved Community . .,” adopted by UUCUC in June, 2021. Enrique’s Journey follows the journey of an adolescent Honduran boy on his 8th attempt to travel north to the U.S. to find his mother who left 11 years ago to find work. It describes the powerful pull of family to be together despite the life-threatening odds and the politically-constructed obstacles to open migration. Pulitzer Prize winning author, Sonia Nazario, seeking her own greater knowledge and understanding of the immigrant experience, replicated Enrique’s perilous travels so that she might more accurately document the stories of these children’s quests to reunite with family. |  |
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Continue on our literary immigration journey as we explore Nobody’s Son: Notes from an American Life, winner of the American Book Award. Born to a Mexican father and an Anglo mother, author Luis Urrea grew up in the middle of a clash of cultures and languages. In prose that seethes with energy and crackles with dark humor, he tells a story of what it means to belong to a nation that is sometimes painfully multicultural.
“Nobody’s Son is a smart, witty, hip and at times heartbreakingly honest memoir of growing up in American in a Hispanic home . . . [Urrea’s] language is vivid and intelligent, but most importantly, compassionate.” — Terry Tempest William |
Enrique's Journey - Meeting Dates
| Date | Chapters | Pages |
|---|---|---|
| January 17, 2022 | Ch. 1 and 2 | 3–60 |
| Feb. 7, 2022 | Ch. 3 and 4 | 61–135 |
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Ch. 5 and 6 | 137–196 |
| Mar. 21, 2022 | Ch. 7 and 8 | 197–247 |
| Apr. 4, 2022 | Epilogue, Afterword | 249–295 |
Nobody’s Son - Meeting Dates
| Date | Part | Pages |
|---|---|---|
| Apr. 25, 2022 | Part 1 | 3–59 |
| May 16, 2022 | Part 2 | 65–151 |
| June 6, 2022 | Part 3 | 155–184 |