by sarahwc | Nov 10, 2020
Back to All Resources Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi A story based on history, the history of slavery, Homegoing depicts the generations of two half-sisters with the same mother. The story begins in Ghana where the American slave trade began. Each chapter is about the life of...
by sarahwc | Nov 10, 2020
Back to All Resources Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. This book does as good a job explaining reconstruction, white supremacy, and the Jim Crow South as any longer, deeper book I have read. It is...
by sarahwc | Nov 10, 2020
Back to All Resources The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates A novel about a river and slavery and the Deep South. From the back jacket of the book is a statement that, for me, sums up nicely what this book is about. “ …. transcendent work that restores the humanity of...
by sarahwc | Nov 10, 2020
Back to All Resources Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston This is an old novel, first published in 1937, written by a Black writer in a time when there weren’t many Black writers. It’s a love story that incorporates Southern dialect into the story. It...
by sarahwc | Nov 10, 2020
Back to All Resources White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo I like this book very much. It is kind of a manual for white people written by a white woman. I have read and heard mixed reviews on the book but I...
