Join the SKJ Book Club!
As stated in our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement, I am committed to educating and re-educating myself in order to establish a thoroughly anti-racist personal and professional philosophy. Part of this journey includes reading, a passion of mine!
No list is perfect. for the first 12 months of this book club, I have selected black-authored (African/global diaspora) fiction and nonfiction spanning a wide variety of topics, including memoirs, sci-fi, intersectional feminism and environmentalism, “classic” and contemporary fiction, history, etc. My goal is to be as comprehensive and inclusive as I can be, but if you see a title or author you think shouldn’t be read, please let me know!
We are busy humans, and participation every month is not obligatory! My goal is to encourage creating a habit of reading more diverse content by diverse writers. This will be fun, informal, hopefully interesting and educational. Haters are not welcome.
June’s read:
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race edited by Jesmyn Ward (2016). We will meet to discuss in the end of June.
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THE BOOK LIST
July 2020: The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead (fiction, 2016)
August 2020: So you Want To Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo (nonfiction, 2018)
September 2020: Passing, Nella Larson (fiction, 1929)
October 2020: Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women a Movement Forgot, Mikki Kendall (nonfiction, 2020)
November 2020: Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James (fiction, 2019)
December 2020: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, Trevor Noah (nonfiction, 2016)
January 2021: God’s Bits of Wood, Ousmane Sembène (fiction, 1960)
February 2021: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in The Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander (nonfiction, 2010)
March 2021: Stay With Me, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ (fiction, 2017)
April 2021: Black Faces, White Spaces, Carolyn Finney (nonfiction, 2014)
May 2021: Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison (fiction, 1952)
June 2021: The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race, Ed. Jesmyn Ward; multiple authors (nonfiction, 2016)
If this Book Club is fun and successful, I would love to continue and open up the book selection to more than just Black authors. Personally, I will be delving into works by and about Indigenous peoples and histories. Decolonize your bookshelves and the media you consume daily. This is a lifelong journey and I hope you will join me.