Review of Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey
Harvey emphasizes the urgency of the need for change and offers age-appropriate examples to help build young advocates equipped to work...
Sep 4, 2020
My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads
01 The Vanishing Half 02 Florence Adler Swims Forever 03 Blacktop Wasteland 04 Utopia Avenue 05 When These Mountains Burn 06 This Is All He
Aug 20, 2020
Review of The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
In The Vanishing Half, Bennett explores the complicated implications of perception as reality when it comes to race.
Jul 16, 2020
Review of So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Oluo offers specific steps we can take toward "talk[ing] our way to understanding...and using that understanding to act."
Jul 8, 2020
Review of White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
"A stirring call to conscience and consciousness in white brothers and sisters."
Jun 27, 2020
Review of Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The issues Stevenson raises may make readers uncomfortable, but they're all worth looking at under a microscope and demanding change.
Apr 24, 2020
Review of A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler
Fowler touches on some big, intriguing issues about guilt and innocence and race.
Mar 25, 2020
Review of American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Cummins offers a fictional immigrant family’s urgent motivation, incredible fortitude, fears, failures, friendships, abuse, and successes.
Feb 21, 2020