Open Books – Open Minds (OBOM) has been reimagining the role of the common book at Rhode Island College. Common reading programs seek to generate intellectual and social engagement throughout the campus and help to create a sense of community, increase the vitality of academic discourse, and overall improve participants' feelings about their school. From its inception in 2006 at RIC, OBOM has engaged students in dialogue with the College and Rhode Island communities. We now envision a broader scope for the program, which continues to encourage the participation of freshmen in OBOM as we expand our year-long series of events inspired by the common book to involve students from all academic levels and diverse disciplines.

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Submissions from 2021

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Edwin Black EcoMap, David Angell

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Graffiti and Gentrification, Sebastian Borgia

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Drawing: Jacquie Red Feather, Cora Brownell

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Who Am I?, Ariel Comey

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Visions in Euphoria, Lakira Ferguson

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Intrigue and Identity: MF DOOM and Tommy Orange's "There, There", Madeleine Frost

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The Impact of the Loss of Indigenous Religious Practices on the Characters in There There, Michael Paul Gaudreau

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Tony Loneman, Colin Godfrin

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The Design of Connection, Londell Yavon Gonsalves

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Tommy Orange’s Spider Symbolism as It Connects to Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Jessica Leite

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Perpetual Weapons, Samantha Rose Lowder

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Studies in Literature, Richard S. Medeiros

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We Are Not the Same, Kendra Palumbo

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Occupation of Alcatraz and the Criminalization of Native Americans, Emily C. Robbins

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Orange Sketch, Cecilia Segovia

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Close Reading of Tony Loneman in Tommy Orange’s There There, Nadia Llyn Xavier

Submissions from 2015

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My Soul has Sung Deep Like the Rivers: How the Abolishment of Slavery Birthed Generations of Music, Remson DeJoseph

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Playing the Way to Equality in the Civil RIghts, Feminism, and LGBTQ Movements, Lauren McDonough

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Music vs. Noise, Max St. George

Submissions from 2014

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Melvillian Whiteness in Johnson's Pym, Jess Mandeville

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Paintings and Biodomes, Cameron Osteen

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Tsalal, Patrick Pride

Submissions from 2013

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Night Doctors: Exhuming the Truth, Dawn Danella

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Trusting the Reliable Narrator: Narratological and Lacanian Perspectives on The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Philip Goldman

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Henrietta Lacks Copyright 2010, Matthew Leo