{"id":2413,"date":"2025-11-20T23:34:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/?p=2413"},"modified":"2025-11-20T23:34:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:34:21","slug":"diversity-reading-series-nickel-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/2025\/11\/20\/diversity-reading-series-nickel-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity Reading Series: &#8220;Nickel Boys&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 5, 10:00am &#8211; 11:00am, in <a href=\"https:\/\/teams.microsoft.com\/l\/meetup-join\/19%3ameeting_OWRmZGFjNzItMWFmZS00NmFmLWFkMmItMTgzM2FlZDQyMjRi%40thread.v2\/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2251f07c22-53b7-44df-b97c-a13261d71075%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%220fa86b1a-2702-43e6-b5cf-39e79e320ad2%22%7d\">Teams<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Diversity Reading Series will be discussing the 2019 novel, <em>Nickel Boys<\/em>, by Colson Whitehead. The story was inspired by the Dozier School for Boys, a now-closed Florida reform school notorious for its abusive treatment of students. The novel won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 5, 10:00am &#8211; 11:00am, in Teams. The Diversity Reading Series will be discussing the 2019 novel, Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead. The story was inspired by the Dozier School&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1797,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-faculty-opportunities","category-forthcoming-events","category-professional-development"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2414,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions\/2414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}