District 8 Zonta Book Club

Suggested Books below chart

November 24, 2024
4:00pm on Zoom

West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story by Tamim Ansary

December no meeting
January 26, 2025
4:00pm on Zoom

Beautiful Country: A read with Jenna Pick: A Memoir by Qian Julie Wang

February 23, 2025
4:00pm on Zoom

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt PhD

March TBA
April TBA
May TBA
June TBA
July TBA
August TBA

Suggestions:

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

-White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo and Michael Eric Dyson

-How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

-Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that shapes what we see, think and Do, by Jennifer Eberhardt

-White Rage, by Carol Anderson

-Amnesty or Abolition by Kelly Hernandez – free at https://online.ucpress.edu/boom/article/1/4/54/106447/Amnesty-or-Abolition

-The History of White People, by Nell Irvin Painter

– Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society, by John A. Powell

– An American Picture Bride, by Toy Kay

-The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson

-Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by David Grann

-Dear American: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, by Jose Antonio Vargas

-Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood is an autobiographical comedy book written by the South African comedian Trevor Noah

-Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson

-Becoming, by Michelle Obama

-White Trash, by Nancy Isenberg

-Girl Up: Kick Ass, Claim Your Woman Card, and Crush Everyday Sexism, By Laura Bates

– A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and denial in the Americas 1492 to Present, by Ward Churchill

-“The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, by Michelle Alexander

-So you want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo