Park City Community Foundation’s Annual Social Equity Book Club
May 14 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Event Details
Park City Community Foundation’s Social Equity Book Club is back for a once-a-year engagement with special guest Hanif Fazal, author of An Other World: The Fight for Freedom, Joy, and Belonging.
Hanif Fazal with the Center for Equity & Inclusion has penned an autobiographical work – part social commentary, part call to action. An Other World: The Fight for Freedom, Joy, and Belonging centers the identities of people of color in a world not always geared towards inclusion. We hope this memoir invites thought-provoking discussions about the spaces we inhabit and frequent in our community.
Find this item in the Park City Library catalog: https://classic.parkcitylibrary.org/?config=ysm#section=resource&resourceid=960167773¤tIndex=0&view=fullDetailsDetailsTab
Book synopsis:
Addressing the leaders of today and tomorrow, An Other World alternates between heart-wrenching but hopeful letters to Hanif Fazal’s daughter Amina, reflections on Fazal’s formative life experiences and lessons on identity, Black and Brown relationships, and a unique type of freedom that could be available to all of us.
In this moving blend of social commentary and memoir with a call to action, Fazal―co-founder of the Center for Equity and Inclusion―documents his journey towards Black and Brown joy, freedom, and belonging. This timely book traces Fazal’s relationships with Black and Brown family members, professional colleagues, and close friends as they attempt to thrive at home, school, and work in the all-consuming whiteness of Portland, Oregon, and the broader United States landscape.
Fazal’s youth involved a constant experience as the other in an all-white school system, breakdowns in family, and feeling split between his Mexican and Indian heritages. He went on to create programs that offered healing and belonging to BIPOC youth in schools and to BIPOC adults in the workplace.
In An Other World, Fazal pinpoints how educational and professional diversity frameworks often perform surface-level inclusion but refuse to invest fully in the complex realities of their BIPOC learners and employees. He also stares down the myth of “making it” and invites BIPOC communities to reflect and redefine success on their own terms.
Date: May 14 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Time: 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Venue
- Park City Library
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1255 Park Avenue
Park City, Utah 84060 + Google Map