Join us for an evening with authors Simone C. Drake (Becoming Educated) and Molly Farrell (New World Calculation) in conversation!
6:30 pm Thursday, October 1, at Prologue Bookshop
Becoming Educated is Simone C. Drake’s engaging and bold memoir about race, class, gender, and the meaning of education in the urban Midwest. Drake uses her own story as a Black girl attending recently desegregated Columbus public schools in the 1980s and 1990s to explore the United States’ most entrenched social problems and how local systems have tried to combat them.
In New World Calculation, Molly Farrell tells the story of colonial America as a testing ground for new ways of conceptualizing numbers, uncovering overlooked forms of numerical thinking to argue that colonialism and the rise of racial capitalism incited a struggle about what exactly a number is and what it can do.
Both Columbus natives, these authors are coming together for an engaging conversation about education from personal experiences to a national perspective.
