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Adult Education Catalog, $99 for virtual courses, $135 for in-person courses
Genocide, settler colonialism, antisemitism, racism, apartheid, censure, divestment. Words fail us. A movement to ban books gained momentum in the United States in 2021 in the aftermath of the George Floyd protests in 2021. Now, in 2024, the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel last October 7 and the subsequent Israeli attack on Gaza have caused a deeply consequential divide between Jewish and Black activists in the American anti-racist Progressive coalition. We seem to lack the language to bridge this divide, and into this breach have flowed many powerful voices demanding strict limits on acceptable dialogue. Why is this happening? Can we develop a language of unity, authenticity and engagement that helps preserve our essential partnership.
In-person at Cambridge Center for Adult Education: April 9, 16, 23, 30 and May 7, 3:30-5:30 pm.
Virtual on zoom: April 9, 16, 23, 30 and May 7, 7:00-8:30
Remember when? Based on the December 2023 Boston Globe series on the murder/suicide saga of Charles and Carol Stuart beginning in 1989, this course will focus on how the city—its neighborhoods, its leadership, its media, its people-- have changed, and how they haven’t, in the years since.
In-person at Cambridge Center for Adult Education: April 11, 18, 25, and May 2, 3:30-5:30 pm.
Based on the December 2023 edition of “The Atlantic,” this course will explore our evolving and conflicted understanding of the critical period of Reconstruction after the Civil War, as well as its echoes in the present day. Featuring an 1866 essay by Frederick Douglass, as well as works by Anna Devere Smith, David Blight, Peniel Joseph, Drew Gilpin Faust and others, this issue challenges us to consider and understand the ghosts of our past, and to work to fully exorcise them now and in the future.
In-person at Cambridge Center for Adult Education: May 9. 16, 23 and 30, 3:30-5:30 pm
Recent history and politics have felt like an ambush to engaged citizens. Where does it seem our democracy is headed? In this four-session course, we hope to use a deeper understanding of American history to gain a better understanding of the bewildering and terrifying events happening in our country as we approach another national election. This course will use historical themes explored in The Plot Against America by Philip Roth as a lens for understanding where we are now.
In person at Arlington Community Education: April 25, May 2, 9 and 16, 7:00-9:00 pm
Virtually on Zoom: May 14, 21, 28 and June 4, 7:00-8:30 pm
In this four-session course, we will explore the meteoric rise of American chattel slavery from 1619-1861 through economic, historical, legal, political, religious and scientific lenses provided in the book 400 Souls, edited by Ibram Kendi and Keisha Blain. We will then apply these lenses to increase our understanding of the current racially polarized historical moment. $50 - $99
In person at Arlington Community Education: May 23, 30, June 6, 13, 7:00-9:00 pm
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