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Social Justice Virtual Book Club
Let’s Get Real!
Connect with others in our community around a shared interest in social justice issues!
Book choice for February 2025:
“Homegoing”
By: Yaa Gyasi
Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery.
One of Oprah’s Best Books of the Year, Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the plantations of Mississippi, from the American Civil War to Jazz Age Harlem. Yaa Gyasi’s extraordinary novel illuminates slavery’s troubled legacy both for those who were taken and those who stayed—and shows how the memory of captivity has been inscribed on the soul of our nation.
Feb 12, 2024 @7:15-8:15pm PST
Register here: February Book Club Registration
Zoom link provided to those who register.
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Past Events
Social Justice Book Club (Virtual)
February 2024 – “Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood” by Trevor Noah
March 2024 – “In the Country We Love: My Family Divided” by Diane Guerrero with Michelle Burford
June 2024 – “Lawn Boy” by Jonathan Evison
July 2024 – “Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From the 21st Century” Edited by Alice Wong
September 2024 - “American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures” Edited by America Ferrera
October 2024 - “Enrique’s Journey” by Sonia Nazario
An Evening of Conversation with Ben M. Freeman
Wednesday, November 16, 7:30pm.
Reclaiming our Story: The Pursuit of Jewish Pride is the second installment of world-renowned educator Ben M. Freeman’s seminal manifesto of the modern Jewish Pride movement that has revolutionized the Jewish world.
In this groundbreaking work, Freeman takes his readers – both Jewish and non-Jewish – on a powerful learning journey that explores the impact of Jew-hate on Jews and the long history of internalized anti-Jewishness.
About the Author:
Founder of the modern Jewish Pride movement, a Jewish leader, a Jewish thinker, and a Jewish educator, Ben M. Freeman is the author of Jewish Pride: Rebuilding a People and Reclaiming our Story: The Pursuit of Jewish Pride. Ben came to prominence during the Corbyn Labour Jew-hate crisis and quickly became one of his generation’s leading Jewish thinkers and voices against anti-Jewish racism.
The USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health, USC Law & Global Health Collaboration and USC Keck School of Medicine Center for Gender Equity in Medicine and Science invited us to join “Addressing the Long-Term Social and Economic Impacts of Dobbs: A View from Inside USC” on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 4–5 p.m. PST.
This one-hour virtual event brought together a multidisciplinary panel of faculty from across USC to discuss the broad social and economic implications of the US Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Informed by the outcomes of the midterm elections in which abortion was a central issue, USC experts in the fields of law, medicine, social work, sociology and global health provided insight into the political landscape and the potential long-term ramifications for marginalized and vulnerable communities. This forward-looking conversation drew on the wide expertise of the panelists to consider the concept of solidarity and explore strategies for research and advocacy in a complicated time.
Click here to view additional recordings of previous events from the USC Institute of Inequalities in Global Health.
To watch, use your USC ID login at HBOmax.com. You will be able to log in under providers and select Univ of Southern California.
World Social Work Day
WEBINAR
15 March 2022, at 9am PST
Voices from the Borders: Social Work Responds to the Humanitarian Crisis in Ukraine
This webinar gave us an opportunity to hear the experiences of some social workers who are directly involved in assisting these adults and children at the border with Ukraine.
Anti-Trans Policies & Social Work Education: A National Town Hall
March 31st at 2pm PST/5pm EST.
Hosted by: the Center for LGBTQ+ Research & Advocacy and the University of Kansas SSW.
social work scholars, educators, and students joined from across the US for a virtual town hall discussion about best practices in social work education to address anti-trans policies that conflict with professional ethics and values. The town hall took place on March 31st at 2pm PST/5pm EST.
Recording of Town Hall
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