Appetizers

Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change by Congressman John Lewis (Hyperion, 2012)

An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy Vols. 1 & 2 by Gunnar Myrdal (Harper & Brothers, 1944)

An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans by Lydia Maria Child, originally pub. 1833, edited by Carolyn L. Karcher, (University of Massachusetts Press, 1996)

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions, 2013)

Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty trans. By Arthur Goldhammer (Harvard University Press, 2014)

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House, 2020)

Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect our Lives, Our World by Joanna Macy & Molly Young Brown (New Society Publishers, 1998)

Connected: The Surprising Power of our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives by Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler (Little, Brown, & Co., 2009)

Disciplines of the Spirit by Howard Thurman (Friends United Press, 1963)

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (Dial Press, 1963)

From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century by William A. Darity, Jr & A. Kirsten Mullen (University of North Carolina Press, 2020)

Governing the Commons: The evolution of institutions for collective action by Elinor Ostrom (Cambridge University Press, 1990)

The Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick Societies Healthier by Richard G. Wilkinson (The New Press, 2005)

Living in Truth by Vaclav Havel (Faber and Faber, 1989)

Loaves and Fishes by Dorothy Day (Harper & Row, 1963)

Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuVal (Random House, 2024)

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (New Press, 2012)

On Slavery and Abolitionism by Sarah & Angelina Grimké, originally published 1836-1838 (Penguin, 2014)

The Philosophical Baby: What Children’s Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life by Alison Gopnik (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2009)

Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black People in America from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon (Doubleday, 2008)

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee (One World, 2021)

Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice, 3rd ed. by Paul Kivel (New Society Publishers, 2011

The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again by Robert D. Putnam with Shaylyn Romney Garrett (Simon & Schuster, 2020)

What Are We Doing Here? by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2018)

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness by Alice Walker (New Press, 2006)

Women's Lives Men's Laws by Catharine A. MacKinnon (Harvard University Press, 2003)

Women of Crisis: Lives of Struggle and Hope by Robert Coles and Jane Hallowell Coles (Merloyd Lawrence Book, 1978)