{"id":1660,"date":"2019-08-20T10:02:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T14:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2020-04-01T15:18:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T19:18:27","slug":"damon-musso-com-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/damon-musso-com-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Damon Musso (COM ’20)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HTCDamon is originally from Western New York, and came to Boston University to study public relations in the College of Communication. He first discovered the Howard Thurman Center through Coffee & Conversation<\/a>. For him, this is one of the only programs on campus that encourages students to take part in healthy debate, and it\u2019s facilitated in a way that ensures everyone in the room can find their voice and use it without putting others down. Attending Coffee & Conversation every week helped Damon see the HTC as a space for meaningful, shared experiences, an element central to Thurman\u2019s philosophy of the Search for Common Ground<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In his free time, Damon is an avid music listener and the music director at WTBU, the University\u2019s radio station. He\u2019s also a voracious reader, which aligns perfectly with his appointment to lead the HTC Book Club<\/a> in the upcoming academic year. Here\u2019s what to expect from his selected books:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe books we\u2019ll discuss will largely focus on where we are as Americans, both historically and culturally. I want to explore what the American identity is, was, and what it could be. I hope these books and our experience of them will get us to take a closer look at who we are as a nation – indivisible or not.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"HTC This book embraces difficult American dichotomies. I selected it, in part, for my love of the experimental novel. I also like how it explores the gray areas of American history, music, culture, and more in a new and inventive way. Written before the 2016 election, it grapples with this idea of the \u201cright\u201d path for America.<\/p>\n

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\"\" Whereas Shawdowbahn<\/em> grapples with what it means to identify as American, Rocket Men<\/em> explores the space race, a time in our nation\u2019s history when we truly (seemed) to feel united.<\/p>\n

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\"HTCA Thousand Steps<\/em> was recommended to me by HTC Director, Katherine Kennedy, and is the book that really set the tone for the fall semester. This novel takes a look at the early history of our nation as told through the story of two women, one an abolitionist and the other a runaway slave, on a journey to Native American territory in 1855.<\/p>\n

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