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
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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March 2023
One Book One Community Read
One Book One Community Read
One or both books by author Andy Weir
The Martian-Released February, 2014
Sharp, funny and thrilling, with just the right amount of geekery.~Kirkus Reviews
Project Hail Mary-Released May, 2021
An unforgettable story of survival and the power of friendship—nothing short of a science-fiction master-work~Kirkus Reviews
June 2023
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