Black Wealth/White Wealth
Books and Coffee discussion led by Professor Omari Jackson
Tuesday, January 31, 4:00p.m. Earhart Manor Living Room
Concordia sociology professor Omari Jackson discusses Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro’s Black Wealth/White Wealth. The book examines how and why many blacks have had difficulty accumulating wealth and opportunities for a better life, and in doing so, challenges claims that the failure of black entrepreneurship is rooted in a poor work ethic and an inability to defer gratification.
A Severe Mercy
Books and Coffee discussion led by Professor Suzanne Siegle
Thursday, March 29, 4:00p.m. Earhart Manor Living Room
Professor Siegle discusses Sheldon Vanauken’s autobiographical novel , which details the story of his marriage to his wife Davy, their intellectual and spiritual journey from atheism to Christianity, and Vanauken’s struggle accepting her illness and untimely death. Colleagues and friends at Oxford, C.S. Lewis and Vanauken develop a transformational friendship, and. ultimately, it is Lewis who helps Vanauken make sense of the death of his wife, and understand the meaning of this “severe mercy.”