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Book Club November

  • How to Be an Antiracist 22
  • White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism 86
  • How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference 58
  • The New Jim Crow Mass, Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 45
  • 2022-10-21
  • 211 votes
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Content

Here are the three poll options that got a ton of votes in the past and we added one other popular work that many people suggested as well. Please vote! 


Choice 1: How to Be an Antiracist 

Choice 2:  White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism 

Choice 3: How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference 

Choice 4: The New Jim Crow Mass, Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 

Comments

GrassyknollMan

This would have been great for Ishmael Brown

Anna Samantha-Rose Organa

I hope this doesn't come off as too mean, but hopefully it's appreciated considering the tone Tom and Cecil bring to their shows.. I've always been tempted to read "White Fragility" as I want to be a an English Lit professor someday and I think it would be helpful to understand how *older white people* understand race. As a 20-something white person my friends of color would fucking roast me if I was caught reading this book. As another person said above, marginalized people should always be at the center of these discussions. For instance, as a neurodivergent trans woman, I have valued books written by neurotypical (not mentally disabled) and cisgender authors on my identities.. But I would never hand one of those books over to someone whose not in said communities until I really knew they had the basics down and were capable of critiquing those neurotypical/cisgender authors if needed. Skeptics/Atheists have a really big problem admitting the fact that, yes, anyone can follow a rational scientific approach, but on these topics, it is so often only the people in these marginalized communities that can understand the weight and nuance of these topics.

Wes

Gotta be White Fragility just to see if the guys buy into it or recognize how ridiculous it is