Campus Community Book Project Discussion - 'Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Right'
Selection Committee chooses book reflecting relevant, shared social challenges
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The UC Davis Campus Community Book Project is in its 22nd year. The Selection Committee of your peers brings provocative book titles reflecting shared social challenges relevant to the entire UC Davis community, from students, to staff, to faculty, to alumni and to regional community members. Last year, the UC Davis Health Interprofessional Book Club hosted non-UC Davis affiliated community members as far away as Bakersfield and the Bay Area. It also included human service professionals and a clinician from the state prison health system.
This year’s book selection is Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Right, written by National University professor and global expert Cynthia Miller-Idriss.
According to the United States Congress, “White supremacists and other far-right-wing extremists are the most significant domestic terrorism threat facing the United States.” Instead of focusing on security strategies and specific groups, Hate in the Homeland illuminates the where and when of exposures to far-right extremist messages that young people encounter in their daily lives. These encounters are occurring in surprisingly mainstream places: gaming platforms, food shows, social media, college campuses, fight clubs and mixed martial arts venues, to name a few.
Miller-Idriss suggests that the dangerous phenomenon of how far-right extremism has moved from “fringe groups into the mainstream…should be treated as a whole-of-society, public health issue.” She has fielded urgent requests to help radicalized youth “from school principals, evangelical pastors, employers, teachers, university leaders, parents, retiree groups, mayors’ offices and military bases.”
Author Cynthia Miller-Idriss
Long before individuals perpetrate violence or respond to a call for violent solidarity, the author argues that we need long-term, community-based strategies that address youth marginalization, including their deep longing for “belonging, meaning, purpose, and engagement.”
This book will make for intriguing university-wide interdisciplinary dialogue and practical problem-solving in an area where so many feel helpless. Book Club sessions will be held from 12 to 1:30 p.m. on the following Fridays: Dec. 15, Jan. 26 and Feb. 23. They are facilitated by Jann Murray-García, clinical professor in the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing and director of Social Justice and Immersive Learning in the Office of Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at UC Davis Health. Discussions are structured so that all are welcome, whether they have completed the reading or not. Contact Murray-García for questions.
About the book project
The book project launched in the aftermath of 9/11 as a means of promoting conversation around a common subject, sharing and discussing all perspectives respectfully, in accordance with the UC Davis Principles of Community. Murray-García launched the Interprofessional Book Club on the Sacramento campus in fall 2010 for students, faculty and staff at UC Davis Health.
2023-2024 sessions
Interprofessional Book Club sessions are sponsored by the School of Nursing. Reading the book is not required to participate. Join for a three-part book discussion and register using the link below:
