The BIG Book Club
Book titles we read Spring-Summer 2023:
and develop our rules of order for the self-managed meetings.
quest for identity takes her on a journey during which she learns what love is, experiences life’s
joys and sorrows, and come home to herself in peace.
sentencing practices. It reminds us that the plight of the poor, and the practice of ongoing
racism, require our constant attention. Just Mercy also reminds us that there are many ways
racism has been and is being practiced.
only way for America to move forward peacefully is if Whites face their history, put aside all
their visions of superiority, and open up their institutions so they benefit everyone in this
nation. Surrender, White People! hilariously holds America account for its wrongs and offers
D.L.;s satirical terms for reparations and reconciliation.
South during the 19th century, who escapes from a Georgia plantation with her companion,
Caesar, and heads north on an underground railroad, which the novel depicts as a rail transport
system based on a network of tracks and tunnels with safe houses and secret routes.
June 15th: A 2023 HBO documentary release about diversity among Americans titled 1000% Me: Growing up Mixed.
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.