OLEAN, NY — The Race Unity Circle of Olean Book Club has selected choices through the end of 2020.
The group will meet at 7 p.m. on the final Tuesday of every month at a location to be determined. Suggestions for meeting spots are welcome. The Olean Public Library, 134 N. Second St., may not be available and as the weather gets colder, meeting under the shelter at Lincoln Park will not be feasible.
Persons interested in attending should email rucolean@gmail.com to reserve a spot and plan to wear a mask and to bring a chair (unless otherwise notified).
Selections and descriptions are:
Sept, 29, "White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism" by Robin DiAngelo. Beacon Press describes the book:
White people in North America live in a social environment that protects and insulates them from race-based stress. This insulated environment of racial protection builds white expectations for racial comfort while at the same time lowering the ability to tolerate racial stress. Although white racial insulation is somewhat mediated by social class (with poor and working class urban whites being generally less racially insulated than suburban or rural whites), the larger social environment insulates and protects whites as a group through institutions, cultural representations, media, school textbooks, movies, advertising, and dominant discourses. Racial stress results from an interruption to what is racially familiar. In turn, whites are often at a loss for how to respond in constructive ways., as we have not had to build the cognitive or affective skills or develop the stamina that would allow for constructive engagement across racial divides, leading to what I refer to as White Fragility.
Oct. 27, "Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir" by Natasha Trethewey. Amazon describes the book:
At age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the aftermath of unimaginable trauma and now explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became.
With penetrating insight and a searing voice that moves from the wrenching to the elegiac, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Natasha Trethewey explores this profound experience of pain, loss, and grief as an entry point into understanding the tragic course of her mother’s life and the way her own life has been shaped by a legacy of fierce love and resilience. Moving through her mother’s history in the deeply segregated South and through her own girlhood as a “child of miscegenation” in Mississippi, Trethewey plumbs her sense of dislocation and displacement in the lead-up to the harrowing crime that took place on Memorial Drive in Atlanta in 1985.
Nov. 24, "White Rage" by Carol Anderson. Esquire describes the book:
White Rage is a harrowing account of our national history during the century and a half since the Civil War — even more troubling for what it exposes about our present, our deep and abiding racial divide. This is necessary reading for anyone interested in understanding--and perfecting--our union. -Natasha Trethewey, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Native Guard" and two-term Poet Laureate of the United States notes that "Anderson's keen analysis presents a powerful portrait of white rage and entitlement — two shameful forces that continue to characterize our national conversation about race.
Dec. 29, "The Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" by Isabel Wilkerson. Oprah's Book Club describes the book:
In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.
Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and the nation’s fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people—including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball’s Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others—she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day.
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