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SUMMARY:Carol Anderson in conversation with Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
DESCRIPTION:Carol Anderson in conversation with Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz \ndiscussing \nThe Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America \npublished by Bloomsbury Books \nFrom the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage\, an unflinching\, critical new look at the Second Amendment–and how it has been engineered to deny the rights of African Americans since its inception. \n———- \n\nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required \n———- \n(CLICK HERE) to register. Link to be posted. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Link to be posted. \n———– \nIn The Second\, historian and award-winning\, bestselling author of White Rage Carol Anderson powerfully illuminates the history and impact of the Second Amendment\, how it was designed\, and how it has consistently been constructed to keep African Americans powerless and vulnerable. The Second is neither a “pro-gun” nor an “anti-gun” book; the lens is the citizenship rights and human rights of African Americans. \nFrom the seventeenth century\, when it was encoded into law that the enslaved could not own\, carry\, or use a firearm whatsoever\, until today\, with measures to expand and curtail gun ownership aimed disproportionately at the African American population\, the right to bear arms has been consistently used as a weapon to keep African Americans powerless–revealing that armed or unarmed\, Blackness\, it would seem\, is the threat that must be neutralized and punished. \nThroughout American history to the twenty-first century\, regardless of the laws\, court decisions\, and changing political environment\, the Second has consistently meant this: That the second a Black person exercises this right\, the second they pick up a gun to protect themselves (or the second that they don’t)\, their life–as surely as Philando Castile’s\, Tamir Rice’s\, Alton Sterling’s–may be snatched away in that single\, fatal second. Through compelling historical narrative merging into the unfolding events of today\, Anderson’s penetrating investigation shows that the Second Amendment is not about guns but about anti-Blackness\, shedding shocking new light on another dimension of racism in America. \nCarol Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University and author of White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Nation’s Divide\, a New York Times Bestseller\, Washington Post Notable Book of 2016\, and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner.  She is also the author of Eyes Off the Prize:  The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights\, 1944-1955; Bourgeois Radicals:  The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation\, 1941-1960\, and One Person\, No Vote:  How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy\, which was long-listed for the National Book Award and a finalist for the PEN/Galbraith Award in non-fiction. \nRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma\, the daughter of a tenant farmer and part-Indian mother. She is the author of many books\, including Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment\, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States\, Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie\, Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico\, and Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War. Her forthcoming book is called Not “A Nation of Immigrants” : Settler Colonialism\, White Supremacy\, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion. She is the recipient of the Cultural Freedom Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the Lannan Foundation\, and she lives in San Francisco\, CA. \nWhat has been said about the work of Carol Anderson: \n“The second amendment\, as Carol Anderson deftly establishes here\, was written in the blood of enslaved black people. Our stalemated gun rights debates have focused on the idea that the second amendment preserves liberty rather than its historic role in denying it. This book does a great deal to change the parameters of that conversation.” –  Jelani Cobb\, New Yorker staff writer\, author of THE SUBSTANCE OF HOPE \n“In this extraordinarily important book\, Dr. Anderson shows that the Second Amendment was designed\, and has always been implemented\, to enable white Americans to dominate their Black neighbors. In her trademark engaging and unflinching prose\, Dr. Anderson traces America’s racist history of gun laws from the 1639 Virginia colony’s prohibition on Africans carrying guns to the recent police murders of Breonna Taylor and Emantic Bradford\, Jr.\, showing how calls for ‘law and order’ have concentrated guns in the hands of white people while defining Black gun ownership as a threat to society. Anderson’s deft scholarship convincingly places the right to use force at the center of American citizenship\, and warns that the Second Amendment\, as it is currently exercised\, guarantees that Black Americans will never be equal.” –  Heather Cox Richardson\, author of HOW THE SOUTH WON THE CIVIL WAR \n“Carol Anderson brings her brilliant analytical framing to one of our most pressing issues: the proliferation of guns and the epidemic of American gun violence. She reveals the racial hypocrisy inherent in Second Amendment defenses of gun rights. The Second is a must-read for students of American History.” –  Natasha Trethewey\, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet\, former U.S. Poet Laureate\, author of MEMORIAL DRIVE \n“Carol Anderson brings her storied sense of the intertwining of past and present\, her keen insights into the wiles of racism\, and her passionate prose to this extraordinary take on the meaning of the Second Amendment. This is a necessary history of the roots of gun obsession in slavery\, racial assumptions\, legal and political fictions that may have put America on a ‘fatal’ spiral we can only hope to prevent. Let’s dream that this book echoes across the partisan canyon.” –  David W. Blight\, Yale University\, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning FREDERICK DOUGLASS: PROPHET OF FREEDOM \n“A powerful consideration of the Second Amendment as a deliberately constructed instrument of White supremacy. . . . An urgent\, novel interpretation of a foundational freedom that\, the author makes clear\, is a freedom only for some.” –  Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n“Carol Anderson’s prose is unflinching\, and she wastes no time as she marches the reader from the openly racist\, clear-cutting suppression tactics of the early 20th century toward the carefully veneered\, ruthlessly efficient disenfranchisement campaign of the present.” –  NPR Best Books of the Year on ONE PERSON\, NO VOTE \n“This trenchant little book will push you to think not just about the vote count but about who counts\, too.” –  New York Times on ONE PERSON\, NO VOTE \n“An extraordinarily timely and urgent call to confront the legacy of structural racism . . . and to show its continuing threat to the promise of American democracy.” –  Editor’s Choice\, New York Times Book Review on WHITE RAGE \n“A sobering primer on the myriad ways African American resilience and triumph over enslavement\, Jim Crow and intolerance have been relentlessly defied by the very institutions entrusted to uphold our democracy.” –  Washington Post on WHITE RAGE \n  \n  \nSponsored by the City Lights Foundation
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Yang Huang with Kaitlin Solimine / Launch for My Good Son
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host the virtual launch for Yang Huang and her new novel\, My Good Son. She’ll be in conversation with Kaitlin Solimine. This will be a special evening – some of you might remember the warm launch we had for Yang’s last book\, My Old Faithful – join us! \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order **signed copies** of My Good Son here and we’ll ship it directly to you (or hold for pickup at our San Francisco shop). \nOrder Empire of Glass by Kaitlin Solimine here. \nWe are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the book\nFrom award-winning author Yang Huang\, My Good Son explores the power—and the cost—of parental love. A tailor in post-Tiananmen China\, Mr. Cai has one ambition: for his son\, Feng\, to make something of himself. With harsh discipline and relentless pressure\, Mr. Cai succeeds in getting Feng ready to attend a U.S. college\, but Feng needs a sponsor. When Mr. Cai meets a closeted American art student named Jude\, they hatch a plan to benefit them both—get Feng to the US and help Jude come out to his conservative father. Their scheme will expose the fault lines in both Chinese and American cultures: father-son relationships\, familial expectations\, gender and sexuality\, social status and privilege. Huang’s writing abounds with sharp insights and a quiet humor\, revealing the complexity of family relationships amidst two rapidly changing cultures. \nAbout the authors\nYang Huang grew up in China and has lived in the United States since 1990. Her novel My Good Son won the UNO Press Publishing Lab Prize. Her linked story collection\, My Old Faithful\, won the Juniper Prize\, and her debut novel\, LIVING TREASURES\, won the Nautilus Book Award silver medal. She works for the University of California\, Berkeley and lives in the Bay Area with her family. \nRaised in New England\, Kaitlin Solimine has considered China a second home for almost two decades. Her debut novel\, Empire of Glass (Ig Publishing\, 2017) was a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. Her writing has been featured in Guernica Magazine\, LitHub\, National Geographic\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Guardian\, China Daily\, and more. She is the mother to two young children and lives in San Francisco where she is at work on a new novel and book of essays. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
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SUMMARY:Carol Queen on the State of Sex in 2021
DESCRIPTION:Carol Queen has been on the frontlines of the sex-positivity movement since the 1970s. A cultural sexologist\, author\, and co-founder of San Francisco’s Center for Sex & Culture\, Carol is a long-time advocate for sexual health and pleasure. As Staff Sexologist at Good Vibrations\, Carol developed their education program and is a leading educator in the field of sexual education in San Francisco and beyond. A long running sex advice columnist for BUST magazine\, Carol has brought her insight and knowledge to readers all over the world. \nJoin Sex Therapist and CIIS Sex Therapy Certificate Program Lead Zoe Sipe for a lively conversation with Carol as they explore the state of sex in 2021. Together\, they discuss societal views on sex\, social movements related to sex\, sex education\, sexual shame\, and sex positivity in civic life. \nFree\, suggested donation of $15. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/event-calendar/queen-carol-june-9-2021 publicprograms@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
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