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<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:150%;color:black;border:medium none"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="line-height:150%">Mason County District Library and
Abondia Center turn to education in the public lecture series Shifting
Landscapes on Monday January 17, with <i>Critical
Race Theory</i> at 7-8:30 pm on
<a href="http://mcdl.pub/sl-zoom">Zoom</a> at <a href="http://mcdl.pub/sl-zoom">mcdl.pub/sl-zoom</a>, featuring Jamila Jefferson-Jones, Professor of Law, Wayne State University.
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<p style="line-height:150%;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">Jefferson-Jones is a professor of law and also the
associate director of Property, Equity and Justice for the Damon J. Keith
Center for Civil Rights. She teaches courses in
Property, Real Estate Transactions, Fair Housing, and Entrepreneurial Urban
Development.<span></span></font></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:150%;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">Jamila
Jefferson-Jones writes about property and wealth attainment by communities and
groups on the margins of society. Her work harnesses critical race
methodologies, focusing in part on the use or threat of police action against
members of disfavored groups. Her recent article on this subject, <a href="https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/aulr/vol69/iss3/3/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">#LivingWhileBlack:
Blackness As Nuisance</a>, was published in the <em>American University Law Review</em> and featured
in the <em>New York Times</em>.<span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:150%;color:black;border:medium none"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="line-height:150%">Professor Jones will lead the group
in discussion of Critical Race Theory. What is it? Who teaches it? Where is it
taught? How is it used in modern educational settings?<span></span></span></font></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:150%;color:black;border:medium none"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="line-height:150%"><span> </span>In
asking questions about the nature and purpose of education, the Shifting
Landscapes’ series seeks to address questions on people’s minds. It also hopes
the information helps people get more from news sources, as well as
professionals and others about education and news that matters to them.<span></span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:150%;color:black;border:medium none"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="line-height:150%"><span> <br></span></span></font></span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:150%;color:black;border:medium none"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="line-height:150%">Shifting
Landscapes series will focus on education in January, including Critical Race
Theory (Jan 17), and Teaching Difficult Truths to Children and Youth (Jan 24).
Additional topics include Race/Racism (Feb 7, 14, 21), Truth in Politics (Mar
7, 14, 21), and Economics (Apr 4, 11, 18).<span></span></span></font></span></p>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span> </span>Events
are free, live or by Zoom. Tickets are not necessary but registration is
helpful. To register: <a href="http://mcdl.pub/sl-register">mcdl.pub/sl-register</a>. For information visit <a href="http://mcdl.pub/SL">mcdl.pub/SL</a>.</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">The previous lecture by Professor Robert Cook on the 1619 Project is available for viewing at <a href="http://mcdl.pub/1619">mcdl.pub/1619</a>.<br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><br></font></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><br>-- <br></font></span><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:left"><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">Thomas Trahey</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">Mason County District Library</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">Head of Circulation</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">231-843-8465</font></span></div></div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span><div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>