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stormdogSo I'm pushing through reading all of "Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America". It's one of two monographs I need to read for my history class. We need to read both and write a paper on one, and I was originally making the damage-control choice of just reading the other one to help keep up with the rest of life that's been happening. But since the mid term is coming up and stuff about Many Minds will be on it, I'm going to read it. It helped to realize that while the book is 463 pages long, only 257 of them are actually the book. The rest is appendices, bibliography, end notes, and index.
So as I read this, there are bits that I find really interesting and worthwhile. But to me, it feel like the majority of this is focused on inter-group and cross-group dynamics. How all the people within this alphabet soup of organizations worked together or failed to. It feels to me like it's as much about how small groups of people organize themselves and learn from each other (or fail to) as it is about the historic actions of those groups.
And my feeling that way is making me wonder if there's something wrong with the way I am assimilating all this information. That maybe I'm failing to form some kind of larger framework for all of this knowledge that the author is trying to create for me. But I have to admit that I'm getting a little bit lost in the chaos.
So as I read this, there are bits that I find really interesting and worthwhile. But to me, it feel like the majority of this is focused on inter-group and cross-group dynamics. How all the people within this alphabet soup of organizations worked together or failed to. It feels to me like it's as much about how small groups of people organize themselves and learn from each other (or fail to) as it is about the historic actions of those groups.
And my feeling that way is making me wonder if there's something wrong with the way I am assimilating all this information. That maybe I'm failing to form some kind of larger framework for all of this knowledge that the author is trying to create for me. But I have to admit that I'm getting a little bit lost in the chaos.
