Update from Laura Matthews:  Please note that the Book Group: How To Be Less Stupid about Race will be skipping a week because of Memorial Day, so the third and final meeting will be on Monday, June 3 rather than May 27. 

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How to Be Less Stupid about Race: Book Group. Come explore this important new book in three weekly 2-hour sessions starting Monday, May 13, 7:00pm, in Forbes Hall. Register for this series either at the RE table or by emailing discussion leaders Audrey Lyness or Laura Matthews. 

From the UUA website:

“How to Be Less Stupid About Race is your essential guide to breaking through the half-truths and ridiculous misconceptions that have thoroughly corrupted the way race is represented in the classroom, pop culture, media, and politics. Combining no-holds-barred social critique, humorous personal anecdotes, and analysis of the latest interdisciplinary scholarship on systemic racism, sociologist Crystal M. Fleming provides a fresh, accessible, and irreverent take on everything that’s wrong with our national conversation about race.”

We’ll discuss how the ideas speak to us (if at all), what the ideas might mean in practical application, and how they are or are not useful in our fight against racism. Everyone is welcome to audit the discussion; if you’d like to participate, please be sure to have read the Introduction and the first two chapters for the first session.

Copies of the book are available online or for $17 at the RE table after the Sunday church services. Our hope is that the discussion will be informative, positive, and practical, with all of us learning from the book and from the perspective of others.