The Community for Understanding and Hope Book Group meets this week for our annual potluck and book selection meeting. We've been reading together for nine years and have read 84 books!
We've been at this long enough that we sometimes forget what books we've read, so it's helpful to have the complete list. Since I went to the bother of compiling this, I thought I'd share on my blog for other people looking books about race in America. The links are to reviews and round-up posts on my blog.
Books read by the CFUH book group as of August 2017
Summer 2008 October 2008 - September 2009Dreams of my Father by Barack Obama
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Black Wealth, White Wealth by Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro
When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Historiesby Bernestine Singley
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Joy DeGruy Leary
Race Matters by Cornel West
The Color of Water by James McBride
October 2009 - September 2010Best African-American Fiction 2009, ed. E. Lynn Harris and Gerald Early
October 2010 - September 2011Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts
October 2011 - September 2012 October 2012 - September 2013A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
The Wake of the Wind by J. California Cooper
Telling Memories Among Southern Women by Susan Tucker
October 2013 - September 2014Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities by Craig Steven Wilder
Malindy's Freedom: the Story of a Slave Family by Mildred Johnson and Theresa Delsoin
Substitute Me: A Novel by Lori L Tharps
October 2014 - September 2015Autobiography of a People by Herb Boyd
Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston
October 2015 - September 2016Red River by Lalita Tademy
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Power Concedes Nothing by Connie Rice
Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat
October 2016 - September 2017Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City by Colin Gordon
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