ARRK May 2023 Discussion
Participants restricted to Kalamazoo College Faculty, Staff, Students, and Administration
11:30 a.m. ET on Tuesday, May 16th
ARRK Meeting Space (MS Teams)
Join us on Tuesday, May 16th in the ARRK Meeting Space to discuss the concluding chapter (10 pages total) of Reckoning : Kalamazoo College Uncovers Its Racial and Colonial Past by Anne Dueweke. We will also be discussing the future of ARRK at this meeting. If you are unable to attend the discussion, please feel free to post your thoughts on the chapter in the ARRK Meeting Space.
The AntiRacism Reading Knook (ARRK) is a collaboration between the K College library staff and our Inclusive Excellence (KCIE) leadership team. This initiative is NOT a book club, but seeks to facilitate campus-wide engagement with the books in the KCIE Reading for Change book collection. This collection was created to encourage learning about and facilitate greater access to antiracism information to all members of the campus community.
ARRK aims to:
- reduce barrier to entry into reading antiracism books,
- identify and highlight campus facilitators with experience teaching and/or disciplinary expertise who can provide context and guide discussions of specific texts,
- foster broader relationships among faculty and staff, and thus
- build greater capacity for an inclusive campus through sustained and focused engagement with shared texts.
- help catalyze members of the campus to engage in small group discussions of entire books in the collection (self-organized book clubs, if you will).
For further information on #ARRK see the KCIE AntiRacism Reading Knook page. To volunteer to lead one of these sessions complete the ARRK Discussion Leader application.