Social Cohesion Dialogue: Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Noé Alvarez | Center for the Study of Race and Democracy

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Join us for Social Cohesion Dialogue 2021

Erica Armstrong Dunbar, author of Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit Of Their Runaway Slave Ona Judge and Noé Alvarez, author of the memoir Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land will engage in conversation with communities at and beyond ASU about critical issues of race, freedom, power, memory, flight and self-determination.

Program Schedule:

Virtual Book Discussion Groups | January – February

Participate in a 75-minute online book discussion group facilitated by ASU faculty and community partners. Select the “Book Group” tab for more information and to register.

Virtual Public Dialogue | Thursday, February 18

Join Center Director Lois Brown, PhD and authors Dunbar and Alvarez for an interactive online and public dialogue about the compelling issues and intersecting themes that emerge in Never Caught and Spirit Run. Attendees can pose questions of the authors in advance when they register and during the livestreamed dialogue.

Free | Online | Open to the Public

Virtual Zoom
Thursday, Febuary 18
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. MST

Free | Online | Open to the Public

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Registration Information:

Complete a registration for each attendee
The same email and contact information can be used for multiple registrations. Those who provide duplicate registrations will be contacted.
If you have any questions, please contact the CSRD at 602-496-1376 or by email at csrd@asu.edu

Join a Social Cohesion Dialogue book discussion group!

Participate in a 75-minute online book discussion group facilitated by ASU faculty and community partners. Think aloud with a diverse group of readers about Erica Armstrong Dunbar’s Never Caught and Noé Alvarez’sSpirit Run and be part of an inspiring dialogue on critical issues of race, freedom, power, memory, flight and self-determination with diverse participants.

Free | Online | Open to the Public

Books will be provided to all registered participants. Hard copies or electronic copies of Never Caught and Spirit Run are available and will be provided free of charge to all registered participants. All time slots are in Mountain standard time.

Book Discussion Group Schedule

Date	Time (MST)	Facilitators	Location

Tuesday, January 19, 2021	10am – 11:30am	Duane Roen Lois Brown	Virtual Zoom	Register
Wednesday, January 20, 2021	10am – 11:30am	Lois Brown Jeffrey Cohen	Virtual Zoom	Register
Wednesday, January 20, 2021	6pm – 7:30pm	James Wermers Shillana Sanchez	Virtual Zoom	Register
Wednesday, January 27, 2021	10am – 11:30am	Louis Mendoza Rosalie Talahongva	Virtual Zoom (Spirit Run Only)	Register
Thursday, January 28, 2021	10am – 11:30am	Mary Stephens Carolina Aranibar-Fernandez	Virtual Zoom	Register
Sunday, January 31, 2021	2pm – 3:30pm	Kermit Brown David Antonio Moody	Virtual Zoom	Register
Tuesday, February 2, 2021	10am – 11:30am	Liza Hita Chandra Crudup	Virtual Zoom	Register
Thursday, February 4, 2021	10am – 11:30am	Calvin Schermerhorn Sujey Vega	Virtual Zoom	Register
Sunday, February 7, 2021	2pm – 3:30pm	Michelle Hale JT Roane	Virtual Zoom	Register
Wednesday, February 10, 2021	10am – 11:30am	Elder Richard Yarbough Lois Brown	Virtual Zoom (Never Caught Only)	Register
Wednesday, February 10, 2021	6pm – 7:30pm	Venita Hawthorne James Cache Castelow	Virtual Zoom	Register

*Additional sessions may be added.

photo © Mia Concordia

Noé Alvarez

Noé Alvarez was born to Mexican immigrant parents and raised working-class in Yakima, Washington. He holds degrees in philosophy and creative writing from Whitman College and Emerson College, respectively.

He studied conflict analysis, peacemaking, and conflict resolution at American University and in Northern Ireland, received a fellowship at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, and researched U.S. drug policy, military aid, and human rights issues in Colombia’s Putumayo jungles.

He lives in Boston, where, until recently, he worked as a security officer at one of the nation’s oldest libraries, the Boston Athenæum.

photo © Whitney Thomas

Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Erica Armstrong Dunbar is the Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History at Rutgers University. Her first book, A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City, was published by Yale University Press in 2008.

Her second book, Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge was a 2017 finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and a winner of the 2018 Frederick Douglass Book Award. She is also the author of She Came to Slay, an illustrated tribute to Harriet Tubman.

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