MN Peacebuilding Racial Justice Book Club

Join Peacebuilding’s Assistant Executive Director and Coming to the Table local group leader, Crixell Shell, as she uses circle process to facilitate large and small group discussions and explores new ways of thinking and talking about social injustice using Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.
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Book club participants are invited to read, reflect and journal on their own, then process their discoveries with the larger group during the scheduled sessions below. Participants are asked to attend a minimum of 8 of the 10 scheduled sessions. Session 1 is mandatory.
  • May 11 Session 1- *Mandatory* Introductions & Group Expectations
  • May 25 Session 2 - Part One: Toxins in the Permafrost and Heat Rising All Around
  • June 8 Session 3 - Part Two: The Arbitrary Construction of Human Divisions
  • June 22 Session 4 - Part Three: The Eight Pillars of Caste
  • July 6 No session
  • July 20 Session 5 - Part Four: The Tentacles of Caste
  • August 3 Session 6 - Part Five: The Consequences of Caste
  • August 17 Session 7 - Part Six: Backlash
  • August 31 Session 8 - Part Seven: Awakening
  • Sept 14 Session 9 - Next Steps/Flexible
  • Sept. 28 Session 10 - Next Steps/ Wrap Up
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Scholarships are available. Please send an email to [email protected].
For additional information and questions, please contact the Minnesota Peacebuilding Leadership Institute. 

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