Knowledge is learning something new every day. The UHart Alumni Book Club has suggested the following books for anyone interested in learning and more fully understanding issues on race, diversity, equality, and justice.
- Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt by Arthur Brooks. (2019)
- Dare to Lead: Brave Work, Tough Conversations, and Whole Hearts by Brene Brown (2018)
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)
- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo (2018)
- Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer Eberhardt (2019)
- Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa V. Harris-Perry (2011)
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (2019)
- Beyond The Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons by Judy Lazarre (1997)
- So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo (2019)
- We Have to Talk: A Step-by-Step Checklist for Difficult Conversations by Judy Ringer (2017)
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein (2018)
- Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication by Oren Jay Sofer (2018)
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson (2017)
Check out The Center for Racial Justice in Education for additional titles and resources. If you have additional resources or books to add to this list, email us at alumni@hartford.edu.
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