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SUMMARY:Book Launch: “Diversityland: Hiding Racial Inequality in an American Suburb” by Kiara Wyndham
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LOCATION:Left Bank Books
DESCRIPTION:\n\nJoin us at Left Bank Books for a conversation\, audience Q&A\, and book signing to celebrate the launch of Diversityland by Professor Kiara Wyndham.\n\n\n\nDrawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork and more than 150 interviews in Fort Bend County\, Texas\, Diversityland (University of California Press) examines what Wyndham calls the "diversity contract" — an unspoken local agreement that racial difference may be celebrated so long as racial inequality goes unnamed. \n\n\n\nThe evening will open with a conversation between Kiara Wyndham and Clarissa Hayward about the book\, followed by questions from the audience.\n\n\n\n\nLeft Bank Books: 399 N. Euclid Ave.\, St. Louis\, MO 63108\n\n\n\nBooks will be available for purchase and signing\n\n\n\nFollowing the event\, an ice cream social will be held at Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams\, sponsored by the Department of Sociology.\n\n\n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology\, The Center for the Study of Race\, Ethnicity\, & Equity\, and the Office of Public Scholarship.\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP with Left Bank Books Here\n\n
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