Description
The University of Central Florida (UCF) Forum is a weekly series of opinion columns presented by the UCF News & Information. The columns are the opinions of the writers, who serve on the UCF Forum panel of faculty members, staffers and students for a year. A new column is posted each Wednesday at UCF Today and then broadcast between 7:50 and 8 a.m. Sunday on WUCF-FM (89.9).
Publication Date
8-26-2015
Keywords
Choice of books; Reading and books; Appraisal of books; African-American; To Kill a Mockingbird
Introduction
I found myself facing some epic declarations and accusations recently: “How do you even have the job that you have?” “And you have a Ph.D. in English! How? How did that happen?” “Should you even be a librarian?”
Subjects
Reading; African Americans; Racism; Humanity; Books and reading
Collection
Publisher
University of Central Florida
STARS Citation
Hood, Yolanda (2015). I don’t control a lot of things- but I can control what I read. UCF Today, 2015-08-26. Retrieved from https://today.ucf.edu/i-dont-control-a-lot-of-things-but-i-can-control-what-i-read/
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