[Magdalen] Two books

[Grace Cangialosi]

James, I'm just starting "White Trash," so I can't give a report yet, but I think it's very important for all of us, especially those of us who benefit from White Privilege, to learn all we can about the realities of present-day life in America as well as our history. I've worked with issues of racial reconciliation for more than 30 years, I've taught in majority-Black schools, and I've pastored in an area where folks fitting this book's "White Trash" definition were a majority. (And yes, I hate that label also. There's another one that I heard in the mountains that was used to describe an even "lower" class, and that was "Trailer Trash."

Even among well-educated White folks there is tremendous resistance to learning about some of this reality, especially when it comes to race.

And folks especially don't want to hear that we are no longer a majority White, Christian nation. 

Anyway, I'll give a book report when I'm finished!

> On Sep 23, 2016, at 8:32 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> These sound very interesting and very depressing. Someone give us a report
> after finishing one or the other?
> 
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
> 
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 6:17 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I just picked up two books I had reserved at our local library; I think I
>> will be deeply immersed for the next few days.  One is "The End of White,
>> Christian America" by Robert P. Jones. The other is "White Trash: the
>> 400~Year Untold History of Class in America," by Nancy Isenberg. The size
>> of latter was rather daunting until I saw that there are over 100 pages of
>> notes.
>> 
>> Both of these have been highly recommended, along with another whose name I
>> can't remember at the moment.
>> 
>> --
>> Grace Cangialosi
>> Ruckersville, VA
>> 
>> *"Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great
>> love."*
>> *St. Teresa of Calcutta*
>>