
Anti-Racism Book Club
The Smith’s current Anti-Racism Book Club pick is Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
RSVP to the March 2, 2021 discussion!
From Executive Director Susie Monagan: Maybe you’re like me and are feeling the call to further educate yourself along the path to anti-racism. Maybe, also like me, you do better with some extrinsic motivation (yes, peer pressure) to organize your time and reading materials. Please join me in reading and discussing books over the next six months as part of The Smith’s Anti-Racism Book Club.
Anti-Racism Book Club
Thank you to everyone participated in our discussion of Ibram X. Kendi’s How To Be Antiracist! The Anti-Racism Book Club’s next book is Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Our virtual book club discussion will be held on Tuesday, March 2, 2021 @ 7:30pm.
RSVP to the discussion!
Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
