The 社区图书计划 promotes the mission of the College by empowering our students, 教师, 工作人员, 校友, 父母, 和 other members of the broader Oxy community to experience the joy of reading 和 学习ing together.
The College will purchase an e-book for each student wishing to participate in the 社区图书计划.
2023-24: 编织香草: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge，和 Teachings of Plants
罗宾·沃尔·基默尔 is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, 和 enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. 她是……的作者 编织香草: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge 和 the Teachings of Plants 和 Gathering Moss: A Natural 和 Cultural History of Mosses. 她住在锡拉丘兹, 纽约, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology，和 founder 和 director of the Center for Native Peoples 和 the Environment.
2022-23: 你的房子会付钱的
斯蒂芬·查的 Y我们的房子会付钱的 has been selected as this year’s Community Book. 优胜者 洛杉矶时报 图书奖, Cha’s 2019 powerful novel about racial tensions in LA follows two families—one Korean-American, one African-American—grappling with the effects of a decades-old crime based on the actual death of Latasha Harlins. Cha weaves a compelling story about how this traumatic event affects both families involved as well as the entire Black 和 Asian communities in 洛杉矶 by depicting events in 1991 和 in 2019.
斯蒂芬·查 他是 你的房子会付钱的，冠军 洛杉矶时报 Book Prize 和 the California Book Award，和 Juniper Song crime trilogy. She’s a critic whose work has appeared in the 洛杉矶时报，今日美国，和 《洛杉矶书评, where she served as noir editor, 和 is the current series editor of the Best American Mystery & 悬念选集.
阅读全文 来自Dean Sternberg
观看录音 八月初. 8 conversation between President Elam 和 斯蒂芬·查
2021-22: The Sum Of Us: What Racism 成本 Everyone 和 How We Can Prosper Together
希瑟McGhee的 我们的总和: What Racism 成本 Everyone 和 How We Can Prosper Together has been selected as this year’s Community Book. A nonfiction title published in February 2021, 我们的总和 is quickly receiving excellent reviews 和 national attention. McGhee argues forcefully that racism hurts everybody 和 that the way forward is by building multi-racial collaborations 和 coalitions, 从而产生“团结红利”.”
希瑟McGhee is an expert in economic 和 social policy 和 contributor to NBC’s 与媒体见面, McGhee currently chairs the board of Color of Change, nation’s largest online racial justice organization. She holds a BA in American studies from Yale University 和 a JD from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law.
2020-21: 《骨头上的红色:一部小说
President Harry Elam chose Oxy’s first community book: 《骨头上的红色:一部小说 (纽约: Riverhead Books, 2019) by 杰奎琳·伍德森. From the dust jacket: “As it explores sexual desire 和 identity, 雄心壮志, 中产阶级化, 教育, 阶级和地位，和 life-altering facts of parenthood, 红到骨子里 most strikingly looks at ways in which young people must so often make long-lasting decisions about their lives – even before they have begun to figure out who they are 和 what they want to be.”
杰奎琳·伍德森 is the best-selling author of more than two dozen award-winning books. She is a four-time National Book Award finalist; a four-time Newbery Honor winner; a two-time NAACP Image award winner, 和 a two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. 她的 纽约时报畅销回忆录, 棕色女孩的梦想, received the National Book Award in 2014.
项目的目标
Through thoughtful selection of book titles 和 innovative 和 inspiring programs, 社区图书计划 (CBP) provides an intellectually engaging 和 rewarding experience for the entire Oxy community. The CBP furthers current students’ academic success 和 excellence, while supporting lifelong 学习ing for all of our community participants. 为此目的，我们力求:
- Create a strong 和 meaningful sense of community 和 common purpose among our diverse Oxy constituencies
- Foster a close relationship between Oxy’s curricular 和 academic programs 和 our broader community
- Inspire 和 encourage participants to read, 学习, 和 engage with other Oxy community members in stimulating 教育al pursuits
- Select a book title each year that is closely aligned with the college’s mission 和 that will have broad appeal to our entire community
- Provide a series of topical 和 engaging remote 和 in-person 教育al programs that are designed to stimulate thought, 对话, 和 further intellectual engagement among our community members