July 2020 Racial Equity Read

As part of LIA’s professional development agenda for July 2020, we will be participating in a book-club style activity that is intended to encourage staff to engage actively with anti-racist literature. As individuals and as a team, we are responsible for continuing to actively self-educate and work on unlearning internal biases in order to better care for our clients, our communities, and ourselves.

We invite you to join us this month by choosing a book from the list below and reading along with us. At the end of the month we will come together as a group to reflect on what we have learned. LIA is purchasing books from Reader's World Bookstore in Holland, and we encourage you to do the same!

Title	Author
The New Jim Crow	Alexander, Michelle
Between the World and Me	Coates, Ta-Nehasi
Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine	Bernard, Emily
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do	Eberhardt, Jennifer L.
So You Want to Talk About Race	Oluo, Ijeoma
Just Mercy	Stevenson, Bryan
Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome	DeGruy, Joy
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness	Channing Brown, Austin
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations	Jacobs, Mira
Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture, & Identity	Guo, Winona; Vulchi, Priya
The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness	Magee, Rhonda
How to be Antiracist	Kendi, Ibram X.
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century	Roberts, Dorothy
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America	Muhammad, Khalil Gibran
The Autobiography of Malcolm X	Malcolm X; Haley, Alex
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition	Robinson, Cedric J.
Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America	Joseph, Peniel E.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches	Lorde, Audre
The Fire Next Time	Baldwin, James
Race or Ethnicity?: On Black and Latino Identity	Gracia, Jorge J.E.
Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism	Hernández, Daisy; Rehman, Bushra
Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid	Lopez, William D.
Unaccompanied	Zamora, Javier
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions	Luiselli, Valeria
Children of the Land	Hernandez Castillo, Marcelo
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States	Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880	Du Bois, W.E.B.
Beloved	Morrison, Toni
The Bluest Eye	Morrison, Toni
The Ways of White Folks	Hughes, Langston

Are we missing a book? Let us know your recommendations by commenting on this post!