Comments
In Jesuit Higher Education in a Secular Age, Daniel S. Hendrickson, SJ, shows how Jesuit education can respond to the crisis of modernity by offering three pedagogies of fullness: study, solidarity, and grace. Details:
https://bit.ly/35JcZ53
In Reenvisioning Sexual Ethics, Santa Clara University professor Karen Peterson-Iyer adopts a feminist Christian anthropological framework to connect robust theological and ethical analysis to practical sexual issues, particularly those confronting college-aged and younger adults today. Details:
https://bit.ly/3Kh3XLy
In the United States, heritage language speakers represent approximately 22% of the population and 29% of the school-age population. Until now, though, few studies have examined the outcomes of classroom teaching of heritage languages. 'Outcomes of University Spanish Heritage Language Instruction in the United States' sheds light on the effectiveness of specific instructional methods for college-level heritage learners.
Details:
https://bit.ly/3ua471F
Among the many artists who have made their home in Washington, DC, Lou Stovall stands out for his innovations in silkscreen printing. Today, his works are collected in numerous museums, including the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Phillips Collection. Of the Land presents a series of prints and poems from early in his career, when he was developing his unique silkscreen technique. Details:
https://bit.ly/3sddEmw
The Kreeger Museum is hosting an exhibition titled "Of the Land: Lou Stovall and the Poetry of Seasons," now through April 30. Details:
https://bit.ly/3rnrDa3
In The Black Side of the River, sociolinguist Jessi Grieser draws on ten years of interviews with dozens of residents of Anacostia, a historically Black neighborhood in Washington, DC, to explore what it means to be from a place in flux through the lens of language use. Grieser finds that residents use certain speech features to create connections among race, place, and class identities; reject negative characterizations of place from those outside the community; and negotiate ideas of belonging. In a neighborhood undergoing substantial class gentrification while remaining decisively Black, Grieser finds that Anacostians use language to assert a positive, hopeful place identity that is inextricably intertwined with their racial one.
http://press.georgetown.edu/book/georgetown/black-side-river
As the United States continues to reckon with the legacies of slavery and anti-Semitic rhetoric is on the rise, two scholars—one of African American politics and religion and one of contemporary Jewish culture—ask a question: why aren’t Blacks and Jews presently united in their efforts to combat white supremacy? Blacks and Jews in America by Terrence Johnson and Jacques Berlinerblau employs a unique conversational format to examine the complex and contested history of Jewish American and African American relations in the United States—and explain why that history matters today.
http://press.georgetown.edu/book/georgetown/blacks-and-jews-america
"Georgetown University professor [and Being Present author]
Jeanine Turner suggests that our new world of work will require us to reconsider and possibly redefine what presence really means."
Details:
http://press.georgetown.edu/book/georgetown/being-present
Forbes
Georgetown McDonough School of Business
Black Georgetown Remembered reveals the rich but little-known history of Georgetown’s Black community from the colonial period to the present. This handsome edition commemorates the 30th anniversary of Black Georgetown Remembered, first published in 1991 following the release of a documentary of the same name. It includes over two hundred illustrations—including portraits of prominent community leaders, sketches, maps, and historical and contemporary photographs. Readers will also find a new chapter featuring a conversation among former and current Black Georgetown residents reflecting on their community, past and present.
https://bit.ly/3nDnHQf