History Reading Group Books for 2022-2023

The History Reading Group is back for the 2022-2023 academic year! As in years past, the group is open to any NOVA faculty or staff member who would like to read recent works by black women on the history of race, slavery and social justice. The goal is simple: to read a book in common each month, and then meet to discuss the book and how its insights can inform our work at NOVA and beyond. We hope you can join us! 

This academic year, we will meet at 11 a.m. on the first Friday of each month, via Zoom, starting in October. The schedule of reading is as follows: 

• October 7:  Hawa Allan, Insurrection: Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship 
• November 4: Erika Lee, America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States 
• December 2: Kelly Lytle Hernandez, Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, & Revolution in the Borderlands 
• (No meeting in January)
• February 3: Catherine Ceniza Choy, Asian American Histories of the United States(2022) 
• March 3: Tamika Nunley, At the Threshold of Liberty (2021) 
• April 7: Mecca Jamillah Sullivan, The Poetics of Difference (2021) 

For more information, or to express your interest in participating, please contact Professor Nathaniel Green at ncgreen@nvcc.edu.

Submitted by:
Nathaniel Green, AN-History, NCGreen@nvcc.edu