Book Groups
Spring 2023: To be announced
Book Recommendations
- Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism by Laura E. Gómez
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Naturally Tan: A Memoir by Tan France
- Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- Americanah by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichi - what it is to be black in America
- Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
- Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
- Ethnic America by Thomas Sowell, 1981 - a Black author discusses the cultural capital different ethnic groups have contributed.
- Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong, Asian American experience
- The People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Please consider supporting a black owned bookstore when making these purchases. These two bookstores are located in Los Angeles, but books may be ordered online: