{"id":1144,"date":"2020-07-13T07:55:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T06:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2021-01-08T16:27:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T16:27:49","slug":"page-breaks-reading-and-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2020\/07\/13\/page-breaks-reading-and-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Page Breaks: Reading and Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 1536px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/06\/28\/opinion\/sunday\/28Cover\/28Cover-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration from the Caroline Randall Williams article<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">On Wed 15 July (1pm) we&#8217;re discussing two recent articles responding to the Black Lives Matter movement. <!--more--><\/p>\r\n<h3>Text (Reading)<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Caroline Randall Williams, &#8220;You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body is a Confederate Monument&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/26\/opinion\/confederate-monuments-racism.html\">New York Times<\/a>)<\/li>\r\n<li>Jessa Crispin, &#8220;You Can&#8217;t Defeat Racism with Reading Lists&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/jun\/12\/anti-racist-reading-lists-educating-ourselves-in-the-streets\">Guardian<\/a>)<\/li>\r\n<li>BONUS: Liam also suggested this as a companion piece to the Crispin: Lauren Michele Jackson, &#8220;What is an Anti-Racist Reading List For?&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2020\/06\/anti-racist-reading-lists-what-are-they-for.html\">Vulture<\/a>) (Thanks for this suggestion, Liam!)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h3>Time and Place<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Wed 15 July, 1 pm<\/li>\r\n<li>Zoom: <a href=\"https:\/\/bham-ac-uk.zoom.us\/j\/99754899630?pwd=NndyUG5HVFRFc082NGY5ZExXSUJzQT09\">Link<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0(Password: pagebreaks)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Looking forward to seeing you all again soon! The event is run by Dorothy Butchard and Toria Johnson (d.butchard@bham.ac.uk and t.johnson@bham.ac.uk). Please email us if you have any questions, but you&#8217;re welcome to just turn up.<\/p>\r\n<h3><strong>About Page Breaks<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h2><\/h2>\r\n<p>This is an informal weekly reading group within the Department of English Literature. All welcome! https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/page-breaks\/<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wed 15 July (1pm) we&#8217;re discussing two recent articles responding to the Black Lives Matter movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":1145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,245,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2019-20","category-2020-21","category-page-breaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1150,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/1150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}