The YWCA of Boulder County’s Reading to End Racism
This group meets the first
Thursday of the month from 5:30–7:00 pm in the Arapahoe Conference Room
of the Boulder Public Library to discuss books dealing with race and racism.
NOTE: No meetings have been scheduled yet for this group for 2012.
For more information contact Emily, emilyh@ywcaboulder.org.
This web page was last changed on December 20, 2011.
All books read or planned to be read by the group since it’s inception:
January 6, 2011 The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
February 3, 2011 Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy who Discovered He was Black by Gregory Howard Williams
March 3, 2011 Inheriting the Trade by Thomas Norman DeWolf
April 7, 2011 Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America by Helen Thorpe
May 5, 2011 White Boy: A Memoir by Mark Naison
June 2, 2011 Made in Hungary: A Life Forged by History by Maria Krenz
October 6, 2011 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
November 3, 2011 The Human Stain by Philip Roth
December 1, 2011 Baghdad Diaries: A Woman’s Chronicle of War and Exile by Nuha Al-Radi
January 7, 2010 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
February 4, 2010 Carry Me Like Water by Benjamin Saenz
March 4, 2010 The Heart of Whiteness by Robert Jensen
April 1, 2010 The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine
May 6, 2010 – The Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North (film)
October 7, 2010 Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan
November 4, 2010 Enemies, A Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer
December 2, 2010 – A Shared History (film)
January 2009 – Between Two Worlds: Escape from
Tyranny by Zainab Salbi
February 2009 – Dreams from my Father by Barack Obama
March 2009 – A Conversation on Race (film)
April 2009 –
My First White Friend by
Patricia Raybon
May 2009 – What is the What by Dave Eggers
September 3, 2009 The Devil’s Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea
October 1, 2009 Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
November 5, 2009 Boxing for Cuba by Guillermo Vincente Vidal
December 3, 2009 The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf by Mohja Kahf
January 2008 – The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down – Anne Fadiman
February 2008 – How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents – Julia Alvarez
March 2008 – Anti-Arab Racism in the USA – Steven Salaita
April 2008 – Interpreter of Maladies – Jhumpa Lahiri
May 2008 – Uprooting Racism by Paul Kivel
September 2008 – The Principled Politician by Adam Schrager (Author’s lecture)
October 2008 – Americans in Waiting by Hiroshi Motomura
November 2008 – The Accidental Asian by Eric Liu
December 2008 – An Elementary School Education (film)
January 2007 – Shame of the Nation by Jonathon Kozol
April 2007 – Dinarzad’s Children by Pauline Kaldas, additional poetry excerpts
May 2007 – Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights by Kenji Yoshino
June 2007 – White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise
September 2007 – The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
October 2007 – Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario
November 2007 – Caucasia by Danzy Senna
December 2007 – Freedom Writers (film)
May 2006 – Crash (film)
June 2006 – The Tortilla Curtain by TC Boyle
July 2006 – Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Houston
August 2006 – Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell
September 2006 – Voices from the Valley a dissertation by Dr. Anissa Butler
October 2006 – When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka
November 2006 – April Raintree by Beatrice Mosionier
December 2006 – Day Without a Mexican (film)
For Emily’s favorites of the books the group read through March of 2009, go to http://www.sackett.net/FavoritesEmily.htm.
For more info go to the ‘Book & Discussion Groups’ tab on: http://research.boulderlibrary.org/readingroom