Welcome to the conversation!


Welcome to the conversation!

Harriet Beecher Stowe's (1811-1896) best-selling anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), made her the most famous American woman of the 19th century and galvanized the abolition movement before the Civil War.

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Tuesday, August 9, 2016

#StoweSyllabus: What We're Reading this Week

Articles and current events that got us thinking over the week!

Rep. Lewis’s new book ‘March: Book Three’ rises to the historic occasion
Michael Cavna, August 3, 2016, The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/rep-john-lewiss-new-march-book-three-rises-to-the-historic-occasion/2016/08/03/63355a0e-57fb-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html

Constance Wu on Hollywood’s white savior problem: ‘Our heroes don’t look like Matt Damon’
Jaleesa M. Jones, July 29, 2016, USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2016/07/29/constance-wu-hollywood-whitewashing-matt-damon/87749210/
The tyranny of the traffic ticket: How small crimes turn fatal for poor, minority Americans
German Lopez, August 5, 2016, Vox
http://www.vox.com/2016/8/5/12364580/police-overcriminalization-net-widening

U.S. police body cameras put civil rights at risk: study
Gina Cherelus, August 2, 2016, Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-police-cameras-idUSKCN10D2AC?utm_content=bufferd547f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

The permanence of Black Lives Matter
Vann R. Newkirk II, August 3, 2016, The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/movement-black-lives-platform/494309/ 

What are you reading this week? Share in the comments below! 
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