The BIG Book Club
Book titles we read Summer 2021:




BOOKS CONCERNING RACISM:
⇒ “Mending America’s Political Divide: What Science Tells Us About Solving the Political Hatred Between the Left and the Right” by Rene H. Levy, PhD
⇒ “See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love” by Valarie Kaur
⇒ “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism” by Robin
DiAngelo
• “Race & Racism: A Critical Approach” by Tanya Golash Boza
• “How to Be an Anti-Racist” by Ibram X. Kendi
• “Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good
Ancestor” by Layla F. Saad
• “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You” by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
• “Long Time Coming: Reckoning With Race in America” by Michael Eric Dyson
• “I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness” by Austin Channing
Brown
• “Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White People” by Michael Eric Dyson
Books Concerning Understanding our Brains, Other People, Politics and Framing Our Ideas
• “Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think” by George Lakoff
⇒ • “Don’t Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate” by George Lakoff
• “The Political Brain: Why You Can’t Understand 21 st Century American Politics With an 18 th Century
Brain” By George Lakoff
• “Lead From the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change” by Stacey Abrams
• “American Poison” by Eduardo Porter
Books Concerning Racism & American History
• “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America” by
Ibram X. Kendi
• “A People’s History of the United States” by Howard Zinn
• “Trouble in Mind” by Leon F. Litwack
• “The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime and the Making of Modern Urban America” by Khalil
Gibran Muhammad
• “Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History 1513-2008” by Henry Louis Gates Jr.