常见的阅读
The 2023-2024 常见的阅读/Common World committee announces that the book selection
for this upcoming academic year is “Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo,”
by Novelist, Folklorist and Anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston. 她也是作者
of “Their Eyes Were Watching God.”
“Barracoon,” originally completed in 1931, was finally published by Amistad an imprint 哈珀柯林斯2018年的总裁. This book is based on Hurston’s 1927 interviews with West African born Cudjo Lewis, whose original name is Oluale Kossola. 他被认为 the last survivor of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. In “Barracoon,” Lewis’ story is shared in his own words and voice. Lewis resided in the Africatown community of Mobile, Alabama, until his death in 1935.
“Barracoon” fits the parameters established for USA’s 常见的阅读, including the following:
- Potential to engage students and spark discussion
- Appeal to a wide-range of students
- Possibilities for classroom use, including the First Year Experience classes
- Inclusion of cross-cultural education, awareness, knowledge, and sensitivity
- Possibilities for campus-cultural education, awareness, knowledge, and sensitivity
- Possibilities for campus programming, and
- Relevance for student life.
教师 and staff can utilize this work for fall and spring semester classes. 如果有人 is interested in partnering on programs related to this book selection, contact us at commonread@dz613.com.
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