Race in America Book Club
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.
For more information contact Emily, emily@ywcaboulder.org.
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
October 2006 – When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka
November 2006 – April Raintree by Beatrice Mosionier
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
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
February 2009 – Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny by Zainab Salbi
March 2009 – Dreams from my Father by Barack Obama
April 2009 – My First White Friend by Patricia Raybon
May 2009 – The Devil’s Highway by Luis Aberto Urrea
June 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
For Emily’s favorites, go to http://www.readingtrails.com/trail_browse.php?id=1236019075.
Link back to http://www.boulder.lib.co.us/read/discussions.html#race.
Last changed on July 26, 2009.