In a service last fall, I talked about how listening to the stories told by people of a different racial/ethnic background than one’s own is like learning a new history of our own country. She solicited suggestions of books that people had read that had helped them to expand their under- standing of our own history as regards race and ethnicity. Here are the sources UUCPA folks recommended–a place to begin:
- The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson
- God is Red, Vine Deloria
Frank, Barney Frank - The Ohlone Way, Malcolm Margolin The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Color Purple, Alice Walker
- A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn
- Beloved, Toni Morrison
- The Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd
- and a TV show on Comedy Central: “Drunk History”
—Happy learning! Amy