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Wednesday, 3/22/23 7:00-9:00 pm

Dock C. Bracy Center for Human Reconciliation

https://www.dcbcenter.org/

Monthly Book Discussion

America for Americans:

A History of Xenophobia in the United States

by Erika Lee


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“[The] United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In America for Americans, Erika Lee shows that an irrational fear, hatred, and hostility toward immigrants has been a defining feature of our nation from the colonial era to the Trump era. Benjamin Franklin ridiculed Germans for their "strange and foreign ways." Americans' anxiety over Irish Catholics turned xenophobia into a national political movement. Chinese immigrants were excluded, Japanese incarcerated, and Mexicans deported. Today, Americans fear Muslims, Latinos, and the so-called browning of America. Forcing us to confront this history, Lee explains how xenophobia works, why it has endured, and how it threatens America. Now updated with an epilogue reflecting on how the coronavirus pandemic turbocharged xenophobia, America for Americans is an urgent spur to action for any concerned citizen.”

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                                              Reproductive Justice Summary
All people having the social, political, and economic power and resources to make healthy decisions about their gender, bodies, sexuality, and families for themselves and their communities.
From:
https://forwardtogether.org/what-is-reproductive-justice/ (accessed 7/24/22)
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Are you interested in Reproductive Justice? 

Would you like to join a Reproductive Justice Subcommittee?

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Something to think about as we strive to make changes to our less-than-perfect world.


Citation for above quote:
“Rainbow in the Cloud: the Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou,”
by Maya Angelou.
Page 97. Google Scholar, accessed 7/27/22.



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