Virtual Reading Group for Literary Activism: James by Percival Everett with the Stowe Center
Dr. Lucinda Canty is a certified nurse-midwife and an associate professor of nursing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Dr. Canty founded Lucinda’s House, a Black Maternal Health initiative, to promote maternal health equity through community collaboration and programs that provide support and education. She uses her lived experience as a Black woman, history, poetry, art, and research to improve the health and well-being of those marginalized by society. Dr. Canty’s work is featured in the documentary “Everybody’s Work: Healing what harms us all.”
James:
When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.
The Stowe Center is pleased to host a monthly book club to discuss works that embody the values of literary activism. Our book selections are from Stowe Prize shortlist and winners; works which engage with social justice, tell honest histories, and model how we can all be part of change for good. Please join us every second Wednesday of the month to discuss these important and timely books with guest hosts who will guide our conversation and offer diverse insight and perspectives.
Meetings will be held on the second Wednesdays of the month starting in September.
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