Rhetoric Race and Religion to Start Book Club

In promoting our goal of examining the nexus between rhetoric, race and religion, we will partner with the mission group of Caritas Village to start the Rhetoric, Race and Religion book club devoted to the study of how rhetoric (language) shapes and constructs both race and religion. We will meet at 6:00pm on the first Monday of the month starting March 5, 2012 at the Caritas Village located at 2509 Harvard in Memphis, Tennessee. For those not able to make it in person, we will conduct a live tweet chat starting at 7:30pm (CST). The first book we will read is Tim Wise’s Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority. Michael Eric Dyson calls Wise “one of the most brilliant, articulate and courageous critics of white privilege in the nation.” Books that will follow include Melissa Harris Perry’s Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes and Black Women in America and James Cone’s The Cross and the Lynching Tree. The book club is free and open to the public. To join or get more information, please call 901-327-5246 or contact us on our Facebook page or Twitter