Welcome to Ceci’s Book Club, where we will discuss multicultural literature and the following themes: (1) cultural identity, (2) collective identity, (3) collective trauma, (4) coming of age, (5) the African American Experience, and the (6) the Black Experience in America.
The purpose of this book club is to offer an online space for the following:
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Critical awareness and reflection about African American or African Diasporic experiences
- Blackness and Racial Identity Formation
- Barack Obama’s Dreams from my father: A story of race and inheritance
- Michell Obama’s Becoming
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- W.E.B. DuBois
- More to come
November 2020
- A Promised Land – President Barack Obama’s new presidential memoir (Part 1) –
- Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
- Becoming
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
October 2020
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- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- New Book Alert: Black Girl Civics: Expanding and Navigating the Boundaries of Civic Engagement – I co-wrote chapter 2 with my daughter 🙂
March 2020 –
December 2017 picks – Click here for the archived Book Club thread
- Marita Golden’s The Wide Circumference of Love
- Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give