Open Minds Book Club - October 2025
NOTE: The Hauenstein Center will be sponsoring free copies of Open Minds Book Club books for current students of GVSU.
Thank you for your interest in participating in the Open Minds Book Club!
For the October 2025 session of Open Minds, we will be reading and discussing The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy by Albert Murray.
"In his 1970 classic The Omni-Americans, Murray took aim at protest writers and social scientists who accentuated the “pathology” of race in American life. Against narratives of marginalization and victimhood, Murray argued that black art and culture, particularly jazz and blues, stand at the very headwaters of the American mainstream, and that much of what is best in American art embodies the “blues-hero tradition”—a heritage of grace, wit, and inspired improvisation in the face of adversity."
The discussion for this book will be held on Wednesday, October 22, from 4:00 to 6:00 pm in the Richard M. DeVos Center’s Meijer Regency Room located on the GVSU City Campus.
Books for GVSU students will be mailed to those who register by midnight on September 25.
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