{"id":25,"date":"2021-01-30T11:10:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T16:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/?p=25"},"modified":"2021-03-17T11:12:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T15:12:45","slug":"deep-denial-the-persistence-of-white-supremacy-in-united-states-history-and-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/deep-denial-the-persistence-of-white-supremacy-in-united-states-history-and-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Denial: The Persistence of White Supremacy in United States History and Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Online Book Read<\/strong><br \/>\nDeep Denial: The Persistence of White Supremacy in United States History and Life by David Billings.<\/p>\n<p>As part of Black History month, the Kingston Chapter of ENJAN is hosting a timely discussion with anti-racist author David Billings about his book Deep Denial on Thursday, February 11th 7-9 PM.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/online-book-read-deep-denial-the-persistence-of-white-supremacy-in-us-hi-tickets-136821774611\">Register here for the event.<\/a> Your registration fee of $22.00 includes a copy of David&#8217;s book Deep Denial. All proceeds from the book sales will go to support the making of the film documentary Hallowed Ground, a story about the forgotten Pine Street African Burial Ground for enslaved people in Kingston. With your registration receipt you can pick up your copy of the book at:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rough Draft Bar and Books, 82 John St, Kingston (Open M-F 8-6pm, Sat. 9-6pm Sun. 9-4pm) Closed 1\/19-25, or,<\/li>\n<li>Tilda&#8217;s Kitchen, 630 Broadway, Kingston (Open Wed-Fri, 9-5; Sat-Sun 10-6pm).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>David Billings is a life-long activist, educator, and organizer in the anti-racist movement and a key trainer, since 1985, in the Undoing Racism Workshops offered by the People&#8217;s Institute for Survival and Beyond. His book combines personal stories from his life, beginning with his white, working-class boyhood in Mississippi and Arkansas to his experience of both the promise and decline of the Civil Rights movement and brings these lessons to his teaching and organizing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online Book Read Deep Denial: The Persistence of White Supremacy in United States History and Life by David Billings. As part of Black History month, the Kingston Chapter of ENJAN is hosting a timely discussion with anti-racist author David Billings about his book Deep Denial on Thursday, February 11th 7-9 PM. Register here for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/deep-denial-the-persistence-of-white-supremacy-in-united-states-history-and-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Deep Denial: The Persistence of White Supremacy in United States History and Life<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6963,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225058],"tags":[226332,478,223091],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upcoming-community-events","tag-anti-racism","tag-racism","tag-white-supremacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6963"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/vcantiracismequityandjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}