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In her book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness<\/em>, Michelle Alexander invokes the metaphor of a birdcage to describe the structural racism<\/em> that plagues our country. \u00a0She writes,<\/p>\n “If one thinks about racism by examining only one wire of the cage, or one form of disadvantage, it is difficult to understand how and why the bird is trapped. \u00a0Only a large number of wires arranged in a specific way, and connected to one another, serve to enclose the bird and ensure it cannot escape.”<\/p>\n The Just Reading Circle<\/strong> at St. Lydia’s is an invitation to delve deeply into particular justice issues. \u00a0This January, we’ll read about structural racism and how we can be a part of dismantling these systems locally and nationwide. \u00a0Part of this process is learning about each wire of the birdcage Michelle Alexander refers to and educating ourselves about how those wires, together, create \u00a0a structure in which Black lives are de-valued. \u00a0So we’ve selected a variety of books that come at the problem of structural racism from different perspectives.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Discussion Time and Place<\/span><\/p>\n We’ll come together to discuss the readings.\u00a0Please come with a quote that struck you in your selected reading, and why it surprised you or changed your perspective.<\/p>\n Wednesday January 21, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n 7:00 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n 304 Bond Street near Union<\/strong><\/p>\n Gowanus, Brooklyn<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Books<\/span><\/p>\n You’re invited to read one<\/strong>\u00a0of these four readings listed below, each of which addressed a different “wire” of the cage of structural racism. \u00a0We’ll come together to discuss the readings on\u00a0Wednesday January 21 at 7:00 pm, 304 Bond Street, Brooklyn. \u00a0<\/strong>Please come with a quote that struck you in your selected reading, and why it surprised you or changed your perspective.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In her book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander invokes the metaphor of a birdcage to describe the structural racism that plagues our country. \u00a0She writes, “If one thinks about racism by examining only one wire of the cage, or one form of disadvantage, it is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2900"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2914,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions\/2914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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