The Art of Activism: Hard Conversations Book Club 2018
The Art of Activism: Hard Conversations Book Club reads a book each month that will illuminate a path for accessing, reclaiming, and deepening our shared humanity. We will spend this year learning things we have not known, so we can respond to other human beings from a place of knowing, and not from a place of fear.
We will meet online in a private Facebook Group, and on the third Sunday of each month we will have an interactive phone/web meeting to explore our responses to each book from 8-9pm Eastern. Those meetings will be recorded for those who cannot join us live.
Our theme for 2018 is Understanding Systemic Racism/Understanding Whiteness
January - White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
February - Blindspot: Hidden BIases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald
March - Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
April - Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
May - The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison
June - Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis
July - The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
August - All the Real Indians Died Off: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker
September - White Awake: An Honest Look at What it Means to Be White by Daniel Hill
October - The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran
November - White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Race by Robin DiAngelo
December - The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez