2021 - Caste
Wilkerson captivates audiences with the universal story of migration and the enduring search for the American dream, the origins of our shared commonality. She draws a direct link between the leaderless revolution known as the Great Migration and the protest movements for social justice today, both of them responses to unacknowledged and unaddressed history.
Celebrate the 15th annual Lake Oswego Reads with our traditional book giveaway!
Join the artists for a memorable evening as they virtually explain the art they created after reading Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. NO Registration required!
Critically acclaimed blues and gospel singer Marilyn Keller, accompanied by legendary jazz pianist Darrell Grant, will perform a livestreamed program of blues and gospel music.
Join Zachary Stocks, Executive Director of Oregon Black Pioneers, for this presentation of Black Oregonians over the past 400 years.
The Lake Oswego Public Library and the Lake Oswego Group, Respond to Racism, invite you to watch the Oscar-nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro: James Baldwin and Race in America and join an online discussion of the film.
Gather, listeners, young and old, to hear a story read by one of our Library’s Children’s Librarians.
Join Katharine Phelps to learn about building communities and institutions that are truly welcoming spaces for all of us.
Tamara King discusses the ways women have used the art of quilt-making over the years to add their voices to the social and political discussions of the day.
Bill de la Cruz will discuss the role of race in perpetuating a caste system of division.
John Callahan, a retired professor from Lewis and Clark College, will explore race in America through author Ralph Ellison’s work - fiction, essays, and letters.
***THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED***
Sewing workshop for youth aged 13-20. Registration required. Participants will meet twice via Zoom to complete a social justice quilt block.
Professor Maureen Healy of Lewis & Clark College will examine the legal avenues through which the Nazi regime excluded Jews from German society in the 1930s.
Dr. Jack Miller will examine the political, economic and psychological dynamics that contributed to the process of assembling a racist power structure in the United States.
Join our newest Lake Oswego City Councilor, Massene Mboup, as he teaches us to cook his favorite Senegalese Chicken and Rice dish.
A panel discussion with LOSD students as they discuss the need for anti-racist curriculum in Lake Oswego Schools.
Professor Shirley A. Jackson gives a talk focused on the intersecting caste-like system of race and gender that works to silence and restrain Black women’s voices.
An exciting opportunity to view the presentation by Tamara King discussing the ways women have used the art of quilt-making over the years to add their voices to the social and political discussions of the day.
99 Nights in Logar (2019) by Jamil Jan Kochai
A Door in the Earth (2019) by Amy Waldman
Bearskin (2018) by James McLaughlin
Confessions of the Fox (2018) by Jordy Rosenberg
Disappearing Earth (2019) by Julia Phillips
