Ink and Intellect May 25

INK AND INTELLECT BOOK CLUB
Reading with Purpose at Evergreen Coffee
Join us for a stimulating journey through literature and philosophy. This month, we're exploring the roots of social ideas.
Current Selections:

• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
  by Ibram X. Kendi

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Meeting Agenda & Details

• When: Weekly starting Monday, May 18, 2026
• Where: Evergreen Coffee 1111 Evergreen St. Longview, Texas 75604
• 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM: Purchase a drink or snack and socialize.
• 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM: Guided book discussion. Name tags will be created for “Ink and Intellect” book club members to pick up upon arrival. The back side of the name tags will have a “Coffee Break” which is our safe word if discussion gets to a point we’d be better served by pausing and taking a break.
• Focus:
  Part 1: Cotton Mather
  Chapter 3 Coming to America
  Chapter 4 Saving Souls, Not Bodies
  Chapter 5 Black Hunts
  Chapter 6 Great Awakening
• Discussion Topics
  1. How did Cotton Mather use puritanism to normalize and rationalize racist thinking?
  2. What are curse theory and climate theory? How were they used to justify the idea of Black inferiority? Do you see echoes of them today?