Racial Justice Book Club

Raising Awareness of Racial Justice

Every other month, a high quality, carefully vetted book focusing on racial justice issues will be selected for participants to read and discuss. Unless otherwise noted, racial justice book club meetings are held at 6:30 p.m. on the 4th Wednesday of alternating months. Book club meetings are free and open to the public.

Questions? Email Becky Clausen, Racial Justice Book Club facilitator.

Next Book

Weds., May 26, 2021, 6:30 p.m. – Zoom Book Club

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

Register here and we’ll send you the link to join us in the Zoom meeting.

Upcoming Books/Selections

Books Previously Read

Here is a list of books read, enjoyed and discussed by Women’s Voices members and guests during past years. We encourage you to read one or all. You will find these books thought provoking, challenging, and very timely in today’s racial climate.

Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston

Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women by Susan Burton & Cari Lynn

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Black Man in a White Coat by Damon Tweedy

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department by the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, March 4, 2015

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman, Jr.

The Making of Ferguson, Public Policies at the Root of Its Troubles by Richard Rothstein

March (three-book series) by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

No One is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts

On the Run by Alice Goffman

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson

The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias by Dolly Chugh

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Dr. Joy DeGruy

Power Concedes Nothing: One Woman’s Quest for Social Justice in America, from the Courtroom to the Kill Zones by Connie Rice

Rise of the Warrior Cop: the Militarization of America’s Police Forces by Radley Balko

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs

Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver

South of Haunted Dreams by Eddie L. Harris

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X Kendi

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson