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One Lincoln, One Read: Project Overview

One Lincoln, One Read engages the campus community in a meaningful, nuanced discussion of a book that has been critically acclaimed

Project Summary

One Lincoln, One Read engages the campus community in a meaningful, nuanced discussion of a book that has been critically acclaimed. In the 2024-2025 AY, this project is supported by the Mellon Foundation's Black Studies Revitalization grant, so this year's book, His Name Is George Floyd, explores, through the lens of George Floyd and his family, themes essential to the contemporary lived Black experience that resonate widely. 
 
As the 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Non-Fiction, the biography His Name Is George Floyd, can be situated within the tradition of Black autobiography and biography from the freedom narratives written by the formerly enslaved to contemporary African Americans. These two genres have historically has been a vehicle to document oppressive circumstances while at the same time emphasizing how the subject fought their oppressive circumstances and regained their agency and authority over their own lives.  
 

This Is Supported By 

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"Can You Be Black and Look At This?" by Elizabeth Alexander

This essay from poet and scholar Elizabeth Alexander is a compelling and poignant reflection on the complexities of 'looking,' especially in the context of brutality committed against Black bodies. This essay provides a relevant and thoughtful framework to discussions on police brutality and systemic violence.

 

 

Support offered through center for teaching & learning

Dr. Lennie Amores, Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), invites faculty to meet one-on-one to brainstorm, create, and revise their trauma-informed assignments and instructional materials for the One Lincoln, One Read curricula. Please email Dr. Amores lamores@lincoln.edu to set up an in-person or Zoom meeting. 

Join us: How to get involved

JOIN US: UNIVERSITY-WIDE CONVOCATION. 

Come hear the Co-Author of His Name is George Floyd, Robert Samuels, speak to the campus at a university-wide convocation on Thursday, September 26 from 12:30-1:45 PM in the ICC Auditorium. Q&A follows talk. 

   

JOIN US: BOOK CIRCLES.  (varied times, via Zoom).

Book circles offer a communal opportunity to grapple with the core issues raised by the book and to foster a sense of academic engagement across the campus community and are open to students, faculty, and staff. Each circle will be comprised of 5-12 participants. 

Open to Students, Staff, and Faculty to participate in a small-group discussion about the book. Sign up here (faculty/staff). Sign up for students is forthcoming. 

 

                                                                         

 

 

JOIN US: CLASSROOM DISCUSSIONS. 

Faculty are encouraged to integrate the book, the discussion, and/or related assignments into their Fall 2024/Spring 2025 classes. Faculty are encouraged to promote attendance to the university-wide convocation through attendance taking or offering (extra) credit. Limited E-books are available for faculty who would like their students to participate. Sign up here.  

 

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