"UNC Panel Chooses 'Covering' for Summer Reading Program

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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<p>Paraphrased and quoted from the "Chapel Hill News" - Sunday, February 10, 2008</p>

<p>This year's summer reading is: "Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights" by Kenji Yoshino</p>

<p>"Book looks at identify and minority rights in mainstream culture"</p>

<p>The program asks all first-year and incoming transfer students to read this book over the summer and participate in small group discussions led by faculty and staff once they arrive on campus.</p>

<p>In the book, the author uses his Japanese-American and gay identity to illustrate "Erving Goffman's notion of 'covering' - downplaying stigmatizing identities in order to assimilate to the cultural mainstream."</p>

<p>I'm pretty sure it's not REQUIRED, but just highly recommended.
Either way, it seems like an interesting book and I can't wait to read it.</p>

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<p>Thanks for posting this. I had been wondering what they would select this year, as I think they've done a good job of selecting interesting books in years past.</p>

<p>[url=<a href="http://www.unc.edu/srp/%5DCarolina"&gt;http://www.unc.edu/srp/]Carolina&lt;/a> Summer Reading Program 2007: The Death of Innocents by Sister Helen Prejean<a href="at%20the%20bottom%20of%20the%20linked%20page%20is%20a%20list%20of%20past%20selections">/url</a></p>