EMU Social Foundations

02/04/2019

Join Us! Meditation Retreat with Buddhist Meditation teacher and activist, Derek Rasmussen, March 25-27.

EcoJustice and Activism Pre-Conference Event, March 25-27 Meditation Retreat with Derek Rasmussen, Emrich Center, Brighton MI. First ten people free! Contact Rebecca Martusewicz [email protected]. Sign UP here: https://ecojusticeconference.weebly.com/2019-preconf-event.html

10/28/2018

Call for Proposals: EcoJustice and Activism Conference, March 28-30, 2019
Disrupting Empire: Education and Activism for a DeColonized World

02/20/2018

What are the SOFD faculty members and students reading? SOFD faculty member Joe Ramsey is currently reading EVICTED:

WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), &...

02/20/2018

What are the SOFD faculty members and students reading? SOFD faculty member Joe Ramsey just finished reading The Underground Railroad:

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. ...

01/03/2018

What are the SOFD faculty members and students reading? SOFD faculty member Joe Ramsey is currently reading THE FIFTY-YEAR REBELLION.

This title is part of American Studies Now and available as an e-book first. Visit ucpress.edu/go/americanstudiesnow to learn more. On July 23, 1967, the eyes of the world fixed on Detroit, as thousands took to the streets to vent their frustrations with white racism, police brutality, and vanish...

11/18/2017

What are the faculty and students reading? SOFD student Rasheed Atwater is reading Molefi Kete Asante's Revolutionary Pedagogy.

Molefi Kete Asante is the seminal theoretician of Afrocentric infusion into curriculum by virtue of four of his 82 books being directly related to examining and advancing an agency centered ideological position in the realm of education, culture, and science. In Afrocentricity, The Afrocentric Id...

11/17/2017

What are the faculty and students reading? SOFD student Sarah Pauling is reading Robert Chambers' The King in Yellow.

The first four stories are loosely connected by three main devices: A fictional play in book form entitled The King in Yellow A mysterious and malevolent supernatural entity known as The King in Yellow An eerie symbol called The Yellow Sign These stories are macabre in tone, centering, in keeping...

11/11/2017

Anthropology and Education, Winter 2018

11/10/2017

Rebecca Martusewicz is also reading Wendell Berry's new book: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Loading-Brush-Agrarian-Writings-ebook/dp/B071F3GJQF/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1510337751&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Art+of+Loading+Brush

Wendell Berry’s profound critique of American culture has entered its sixth decade, and in this new gathering he reaches with deep devotion toward a long view of Agrarian philosophy. Mr. Berry believes that American cultural problems are nearly always aligned with their agricultural problems, and recent events have shone a terrible spotlight on the divides between our urban and rural citizens. Our communities are as endangered as our landscapes. There is, as Berry outlines, still much work to do, and our daily lives—in hope and affection—must triumph over despair.

11/10/2017

What are the faculty and students reading? Professor Chris Robbins is reading Hannah Arendt's On Violence and Elly Blue's Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save the Economy.
https://www.amazon.com/Violence-Harvest-Book-Hannah-Arendt/dp/0156695006/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1510312320&sr=8-1&keywords=hannah+arendt&dpID=41q4V0Jq6WL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch

https://www.amazon.com/Bikenomics-Bicycling-Save-Economy-Bicycle/dp/1621060039/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1510312366&sr=1-7&keywords=elly+blue

An analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. Arendt also reexamines the relationship between war, politics, violence, and power. “Incisive, deeply probing, written with clarity and grace, it provides an ideal framework for ...

11/09/2017

What are the faculty and students reading? Faculty member Joe Bishop is reading Georg Simmel's The Philosophy of Money.

With a new foreword by Charles Lemert 'Its greatness...lies in ceaseless and varied use of the money form to unearth and conceptually reveal incommensurabilities of all kinds, in social reality fully as much as in thought itself.' - Fredric Jameson In The Philosophy of Money, Georg Simmel puts mo...

11/08/2017

What are the SOFD faculty members and students reading? Beyond the readings for their scholarship and courses, the coming posts will highlight what the SOFD faculty members and students are reading for pleasure/intellectual stimulation. Joe Ramsey is currently reading TALES OF TWO AMERICAS.

Thirty-six major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided America—including Anthony Doerr, Ann Patchett, Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, Hector Tobar, Joyce Carol Oates, Edwidge Danticat, Richard Russo, Eula Bliss, Karen Russell, and many more