Looking for something to read this summer? How about getting a head start on the Campus Community Book Project? The 2015-16 book, announced last week, is The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap, by Matt Taibbi, a regular contributor to Rolling Stone magazine.
Taibbi and the featured book for 2015-16
NEXT STEPS
- Program proposals for 2015-16 鈥 The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi
- Program planning committee for 2015-16, to convene in July.
- Book nominations for 2016-17 鈥 Topic: poverty/hunger/food security. Deadline for nominations: Aug. 14, 2015.
- Book selection committee for 2016-17 鈥 To read the nominated books this summer and into the fall. The selection team will convene in late August.
Contact: Mikael Villalobos, associate chief diversity officer, Office of Campus Community Relations
- Phone 鈥 (530) 752-2071
- Email 鈥 mbvillalobos@ucdavis.edu
The book project, begun in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, promotes respectful discussion among the university鈥檚 diverse population, and in the wider community, around a book that everyone is reading. We鈥檝e had a book every year since then.
Each year鈥檚 book selection process starts with a topic 鈥 it鈥檚 鈥渟tructural inequality鈥 for 2015-16. The year after that, it鈥檒l be 鈥減overty/hunger/food security,鈥 and book nominations are now being taken.
But, first, The Divide, and a program of related events such as lectures, workshops and panel discussions, art exhibitions and film screenings 鈥 all culminating in the author鈥檚 talk scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 3, at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts.
Mikael Villalobos, who chairs the Campus Community Book Project, welcomes volunteers to serve on the program planning committee this summer. Have a programming idea? Interested in serving on the planning committee? See 鈥淣ext Steps鈥 box.
For the 2016-17 project, on the topic of 鈥減overty/hunger/food security,鈥 nominations are welcome from anyone in the campus and wider community, with a deadline of Aug. 14, 2015. Please include title, author and a short description of the book, plus an explanation of why it complements the topic and represents a worthy selection.
Villalobos will assemble a selection committee in late August to read the nominated books through the summer and into the fall. Interested in being on the committee? See 鈥淣ext Steps鈥 box.
In The Divide, published in 2014, Taibbi ponders a 鈥渂izarre statistical mystery鈥 two decades in the making: Poverty goes up. Crime goes down. The prison population doubles. And, he says, not one of the new prisoners is among the rich whose fraud wiped out 40 percent of the world鈥檚 wealth.
Look for The Divide in 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Stores some time around Thursday (July 16). The paperback will sell for $11.95, about a 30 percent discount off the list price (and less than the Amazon price!). Hardcover copies are due to arrive around the end of July, and they will also sell for $11.95.
Follow the Campus Community Book Project on and , and use the hashtag #ccbp2015.
Media Resources
Dave Jones, Dateline, 530-752-6556, dljones@ucdavis.edu