The event is sponsored by TCNJ’s Departments of English and African American Studies, the Office of the Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society. The book has received praise from Ebony, The Washington Post, The Root, Booklist, and Kirkus Reviews, among others.Ī discussion and book signing will follow the reading. Applications to Sigma Tau Deltas priority consideration for summer Penguin Random House internships close on Monday, February 6. In May, The Wreck was included at the top of a New York Times book review shortlist and featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday where Jackson was interviewed by program host Ayesha Rascoe. But as she traces the cascading effects of loss punctuated by racism, she also discovers a powerful legacy of fearless love and furious perseverance that she hopes to extend to a new generation. The Wreck is both an investigation into a family’s history and a look toward an unknown future, as Jackson simultaneously uncovers tragic events in her family’s past while struggling to start a family of her own.Īs she moves back and forth between her girlhood and her journey to motherhood, Jackson reveals the chilling parallels between the harrowing inhumanity of Jim Crow medical care and the toxic discrimination that undergirds healthcare in the United States today. Sigma Tau Delta is excited to announce its new and improved partnership with Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. The event is free and open to the public. Philosophy, Religion and Classical StudiesĪuthor and TCNJ English professor Cassandra Jackson will read from her latest book, The Wreck: A Daughter’s Memoir of Becoming a Mother, on Wednesday, October 4 from 6:30–8 p.m.Read on to learn about Brianna Lopezs experience as a PRH intern. Undeclared Humanities and Social Sciences Designation Applications for Sigma Tau Deltas Penguin Random House Internship Priority Consideration are due by June 13.
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