We are continuing our open conversations within the LWC community by hosting a book discussion around the book The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee.
This is another opportunity to join a FREE event where you can interact and learn with your LWC peers! Tara S. will lead the group through a discussion of three chapters per meeting. Our intention of these continued conversations & discussions is to impact our leaders and promote action.
Remaining Discussion Dates:
Wednesday, December 8 from 11:45am - 1pm: Chapters 9 & 10
ABOUT THE BOOK: The Sum of Us is a brilliant analysis of how we arrived here: divided and self-destructing, materially rich but spiritually starved and vastly unequal. McGhee marshals economic and sociological research to paint an irrefutable story of racism’s costs, but at the heart of the book are the humble stories of people yearning to be part of a better America, including white supremacy’s collateral victims: white people themselves. With startling empathy, this heartfelt message from a Black woman to a multiracial America leaves us with a new vision for a future in which we finally realize that life can be more than zero-sum. (https://heathermcghee.com/, 2021).
Winter/Spring 2022 Book Discussion
The LWC community will explore and discuss the book Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm by Robin DiAngelo.
Discussion Dates are:
Wednesday, Jan 12 from 11:45am - 1pm: Chapters 1-3
Wednesday, Feb 9 from 11:45am - 1pm: Chapters 4-6
Wednesday, Mar 9 from 11:45am - 1pm: Chapters 7-9
Wednesday, Apr 13 from 11:45am - 1pm: Chapters 10-12
ABOUT THE BOOK: Building on the groundwork laid in the New York Times bestseller White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explores how a culture of niceness inadvertently promotes racism. In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized, and challenged the belief that racism is a simple matter of good people versus bad. DiAngelo also made a provocative claim: white progressives cause the most daily harm to people of color. In Nice Racism, her follow-up work, she explains how they do so. Drawing on her background as a sociologist and over 25 years working as an anti-racist educator, she picks up where White Fragility left off and moves the conversation forward. Writing directly to white people as a white person, DiAngelo identifies many common white racial patterns and breaks down how well-intentioned white people unknowingly perpetuate racial harm. (https://www.robindiangelo.com/publications/. 2021)
These events are open to LWC Members ONLY. Email initiations are sent from Tara B.; please RSVP via email to receive a calendar invitation with the Zoom info.