My mom isn’t the most self aware person in the world. I caught her saying some ignorant stuff and called her out on it. From that conversation came the idea of doing a book club. I’m very well educated in this space, and want to bridge the gap but don’t know what the first step should be. So I came to yall.
My mom is in her 40’s, and would probably call herself a centrist. By american standards, this pretty easily slots her as conservative, and by those same standards I may as well be an extremist. I don’t want to throw her into the deep end and scare her away.
My mom isn’t all that booksmart, she doesn’t do well with stats and statistics, or verbose text. I don’t think she could get through the new jim crow, or any of its companion peices for that matter. I don’t want to throw her at a wall of text she won’t get through.
Some books I think might work
Sister outsider
White tears/brown scars
Hood feminism
Citizen, an american lyric
Bad feminist
Assata
The bluest eye
The fire next time
Racism without racists
Tyrany comes home
Freedom is a constant struggle
Don’t call us dead
Women race & class
A burning
What do you guys think is a good choice given this?
by PsychologicalEgg9646
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bell hook’s books really opened my eyes in an accessible way… and Ursula K. LeGuin’s fiction delves into a lot of these hard problems in her soft, but firm Taoist way.
I think all the books that you mentioned are great suggestions, i would also add “So you want to talk about race”