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Live To See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty
Kensington, PA, distinguished only by its poverty, is home to Ryan, Giancarlos and Emmanuel, three Puerto Rican children who live among the most marginalized families in the United States. Their coming-of-age is beset by violence - homelessness, hunger, incarceration, stray bullets, sexual and physical assault, the hypermasculine logic of the streets, and the drug trade. In Kensington, eighteenth birthdays are statistical miracles. All three are high school dropouts, but they are striving to resist their designated place in the social hierarchy. Nikhil Goyal follows them on their quest.
Nikhil Goyal is a sociologist, who earned his B.A. at Goddard College, and M.Phil and Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge. He served as senior policy advisor on education and children for Senator Bernie Sanders on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, and Budget. He developed education, child care and child tax credit federal legislation, as well as tuition-free college programs for incarcerated people and correctional workers in Vermont. The New Yorker named his book, the subject of this talk, Best Book of 2023.
Light refreshments will be available starting at 12:30 PM. Please bring your own beverage.
Non-members of CDHS are welcome to attend, either in person or online. To attend via Zoom, send an email request to [email protected], several days prior to the event. Or log onto our Meetup page: https://www.meetup.com/Capital-District-Humanist-Society/ then click on JOIN, then click on ATTEND, and use the RSVP function, and the link will be available.
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Meetup: https://go.evvnt.com/2727277-0
