This year for the First Readings program, incoming first-year and transfer students at Brown University will read Matthew Desmond’s Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.
Students will write and submit a response paper, which will be reviewed by their seminar leader and potentially discussed during their First Reading seminar held during orientation.
This site has been created as a tool to help new students further explore the relevant issues raised in Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City while also becoming familiar with the resources available through the Brown University Library.
As you think about your Fall 2018 courses, you may consider selecting from the list of related courses. Previous First Readings selections have covered an array of topics. A list of past selections is listed here.
Upcoming Event: “Evicted in Providence”
“Evicted in Providence” is a community discussion on our nation’s ongoing eviction crisis and its impact in the Ocean State organized by HOPE (Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere), a Swearer Center Community Corps group. The event will seek to examine the prevalence of evictions in Rhode Island from a wide array of community perspectives. At the event, we will hear from researchers and academics studying eviction’s impact in Rhode Island, officials and advocates working to address this crisis, and – perhaps most importantly – local residents who have experienced eviction and its fallout firsthand.
The event will be held Thursday, September 27, 2018 from 7:00-9:00 p.m. in Metcalf Friedman Auditorium. Register here!
Photographs copyright of Matthew Desmond or Creative Commons.