Dear Friends,
For those who are interested in joining the book group that the Anti-Racism
Working Group is sponsoring, we will be meeting Thursday, 12/10 at 7 p.m.
to discuss The Warmth of Other Suns.
We will also be selecting the next books; the ARWG has prepared the list
below. Green highlights are books read and recommended by members of the
ARWG; others are books that have been suggested by others. Whether you are
joining the group discussions or not, please consider reading these. If you
have additions that you'd like us to consider, please send them our way.
Please look over the list so we can select the next books. We may want to
consider selecting books for several months to enable F/friends to use the
local library services; the wait lists can be long so selecting the next
several books may be helpful.
Thank you!
Laurie
*Across that Bridge*, John Lewis
*Been in the Storm So Long*, Leon F. Litwack
*Blood In the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy*,
Heather Ann Thompson
*Caste*, Isabel Wilkerson
*[The] Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime and the Making of Modern *
* Urban America*, Khalil Gibran Muhammad
*Fit for Freedom Not for Friendship*, Donna McDaniel & Vanessa D. Julye
*Golden Gulag: Prinsons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing
California, *Ruth Wilson Gilmore (Tory Smith)
*[The] Emperor Has No Clothes: Teaching About Race and Racism to People Who
Don’t Want to Know, *Tema Okun (Tory Smith)
*How to be an Anitracist*, Ibram X. Kendi
*[The] Hate U Give*, Angie Thomas
*The Help*, Kathryn Stockett
*[The] History of White People*, Nell Irvin Painter
*Inequality in the United States. *Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
*[The] Invention of Wings*, Sue Monk Kidd
*Invisible Man*, Ralph Ellison
*Invisible No More, *Andrea Ritchie & Angela Y. Davis (Tory Smith)
*Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI*, David
Grann
*My Grandmother’s Hands*, Resmaa Menakem
*[The] New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness*, Michelle
Alexander
*[The] Queen of Katwe*, Tim Crothers
*Racism Without Racists: Colorblind Racism and the Persistence of Racial
Less *
* Stupid About Race, *Crystal M Fleming
*So You Want to Talk About Race,* Ijeoma Oluo, Bahni Turpin, et al
*Stamped From the Beginning*, Ibram X. Kendi
*Towards the “Other America”: Anti-Racist Resources for White People Taking
Action for Black Lives Matter, *Chris Crass (Tory Smith)
*Trouble in Mind*, Leon F. Litwack
*We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolotionist Organizaing and Transforming
Justice, *Mariam Kaba (Tory Smith)
*We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility, *Marc Lamont
Hill (Tory Smith)
*Why are All the Black Children Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And
Other *
* Conversations About Race*, Beverly Daniel Tatum
