One Book/One University
Mansfield Institute for Social Justice

2008

One Book/One University Discussion Group

Read with us and join us for thought-provoking discussions.
Bring your lunch. Beverages will be provided.

• Feb 28, Thursday, 12:30-2:00 p.m., AUD720
• March 6, Thursday, 12:30-2:00 p.m., AUD720

Former New Yorker and Wall Street Journal reporter Alex Kotlowitz relocated to Chicago in the 1980s to do research for his first book, There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing up in the Other America, about life inside the city’s public housing projects. His second book, The Other Side of The River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America’s Dilemma, delves into racial and socio-economic issues in Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan. Kotlowitz’s most recent book, Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago, chronicles the city he describes as "a stew of contradictions." Currently, Alex Kotlowitz is a senior lecturer in journalism at Northwestern University, and he will be the lecturer for Roosevelt University’s Mansfield Institute for Social Justice in March 2008 when There Are No Children Here is the fifth annual "One Book, One University" selection at Roosevelt. Please contact the Director of the Mansfield Institute, Heather Dalmage, if you'd like more information at 312.341.3692 or by e-mail: hdalmage@roosevelt.edu.

2007

Mansfield Lecturer - BARBARA KATZ ROTHMAN - Weaving a Family
May 3, 2007

Please join us for the 3rd annual One Book/One University. This year we will be reading Dr. Barbara Katz Rothman's Weaving a Family: Untangling Race and Adoption. Copies of the book are available in the Roosevelt University libraries and for purchase through the Roosevelt University bookstore. In addtion to the "Coffee talk" book discussions we will hold on each campus, we have also created a Blackboard discussion group. Join us in person and/or on-line (see information below). On May 3, 2007 at 4:30 in the Congress Lounge, Dr. Katz Rothman will be at Roosevelt University as the 2007 Mansfield Lecturer to discuss her book. Please contact the Director of the Mansfield Institute, Heather Dalmage, if you'd like more information at 312.341.3692 or by e-mail at hdalmage@roosevelt.edu.

Schedule of "Coffee talk" book discussions. Bring your lunch, we'll provide beverages. 

Chicago

Thursday, April 12          11:30 - 1:00       AUD 244 Spertus Lounge
Thursday, April 26          11:30 - 1:00       AUD 720

Schaumburg

Thursday, April 12          12:30 - 2:00       Private Dining Room
Thursday, April 26          12:30 - 2:00       Room 350

Join us for the Blackboard discussion as well:

1. Log on to Blackboard with User Name and Password
2. Click on the RU Community tab
3. Under Organization Search, type One_Book and click Go
4. Under Search Results, locate the One_Book_One_University site and then click the Enroll button.
5. Click Submit

Chapter two, Weaving a Family

2006

A Pedagogy for Liberation, Ira Shor & Paulo Freire (PDF)

2005

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement, Barbara Ransby

Review by Jeff Edwards