Saturday, September 10, 2011

NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN

We're back in business next week, as we gather at UR on Saturday, September 17, room 500 in Ryland Hall at 5 p.m., to discuss Blonde Roots, by Bernardine Evaristo. I'm looking forward to it.

Our next meeting after that, on Saturday, November 19, will feature WIDE OPEN NON-FICTION, which means exactly that: no fiction, no poetry, no plays. Everything else is in the mix as a possibility.

Please nominate no more than two (2) books. Nominations will stay open until Wednesday night, then we'll vote on the nominations for the next book selection. If there's a tie---and only if there's a tie; even a one-vote margin is a legitimate victory---we'll break the tie by secret-ballot vote at the meeting.


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5 comments:

  1. Bert AsheSeptember 12, 2011 at 5:11 PM

    Lindsay Robinson's nominations:

    Gerald Early, A Level Playing Field: African American Athletes and the Republic of Sports

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674050983/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d0_g14_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=00K605J7Q128TGFE7BMN&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846

    and

    Robin D. G. Kelley, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

    http://www.amazon.com/Thelonious-Monk-Times-American-Original/dp/1439190461/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315846082&sr=1-1

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  2. Bert AsheSeptember 12, 2011 at 5:19 PM

    My own nomination:

    Ralph Richard Banks, Is Marriage for White People?: How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone

    http://www.amazon.com/Marriage-White-People-American-Everyone/dp/0525952012/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315865575&sr=1-1

    CHECK OUT THIS EDITION OF "KQED'S FORUM" where Banks talks about the furnace-hot BLOWBACK he's received from black folk who beg to differ with him. Absolutely fascinating: http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201108311000

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  3. Aubrey PettawaySeptember 14, 2011 at 7:39 AM

    My nomination is The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice by Ronald R. Sundstrom

    Aubrey

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  4. Rodney MullinsSeptember 14, 2011 at 11:37 AM

    My nominations are:

    The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency - Randall Kennedy

    Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African-American Political Ideologies - Michael Dawson

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  5. Bert AsheSeptember 14, 2011 at 8:23 PM

    Mark Saunders's nominations:

    1) 83 Things I Wish the Black Church Would Stop Doing
    By Milan Ford

    http://www.amazon.com/Things-Black-Church-Would-Doing/dp/069200677X/ref=sr_1
    _1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316049519&sr=1-1


    2) Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who
    Ever Lived
    By Rob Bell

    http://www.amazon.com/Love-Wins-About-Heaven-Person/dp/006204964X/ref=sr_1_1
    ?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316049622&sr=1-1

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