Anti-Racism: Learning More

Anti-Racism: Learning More

Book Groups

January 2025: This group is ready to begin a new book for discussion and welcomes new members. Having read several books that have explored racism from a number of points of view, the group is moving in a new direction. My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem explores racialized trauma from the point of view of healing. It uses experiential activities and reflection rather than relying on being “in your head.” The group relies on shared leadership. The first meeting will be Monday, January 13, on Zoom, and meets the second and fourth Mondays of the month (7:00pm-8:30pm). For more information or to sign up, please find details here.

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:

Reparations Bookstore

Eso Won Bookstore