Sunday, November 29, 2009

Fall Conversations...

Thank you for the lively and informative conversations about Presidents Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father.   It is always a pleasure and encouraging to see students join in on the discussion and walk away with several new perspectives.

From the Inside Flap

Dreams From My Father

"In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided [cultural] inheritance." School Library Journal

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

FALL is here

Save the date.....
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Seminar Room 256-258
Our first title of the year, up for discussion is NC A & T's  Text in Community

             Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
by Barack Obama


You can find this title in Bluford Library at the Access Service Desk
Call number ... Reserve  E185.97.O23 A3 2004

I will know soon if I have extra copies to borrow.
    so keep in touch
Bring your lunch... bring a friend... bring a student...