Students in Hamilton's "Race Matters" Sophomore Seminar will hold a public debate to determine the winner of this year's "mock" National Book Award Winner for the Most Influential Book on Race in the 20th Century, on Thursday, May 1 at 4:30 p.m. in the Events Barn.
Throughout the semester, students in the Race Matters Sophomore Seminar have been focusing on three seminal books, James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. At the conclusion of the course students will work in teams to make in class presentations that speak to the merits of bestowing the award on one of these three books.
In addition, each student team will also have a chance to confer with and engage three nationally renowned scholars on race (Prof. Robert Bernasconi of The University of Memphis, Prof. Dwight McBride of Northwestern University, and Prof. Tiffany Patterson of SUNY-Binghamton) who have agreed to augment and champion the arguments of each student group before a campus wide audience on May 1, at 4:30 p.m. in the Events Barn.
