Social Equity Book Club

The Social Equity Book Club is not currently meeting. Please contact Diego Zegarra at diego@parkcitycf.org to be added to the book club email list and we will notify you when it meets again. In the meantime, check out the great books listed below.

The books we have read each month are below:

January 2019: Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
February 2019: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
March 2019: We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
April 2019: American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures by America Ferrera (and other authors)
May 2019: The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida
June 2019: Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition by Julia Kaye, and you can also watch the movie Quiet Heroes for a deeper dive.
July 2019: Becoming by Michelle Obama
August 2019: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
September 2019: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
October 2019: How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
November 2019: Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
December 2019: Maid by Stephanie Land
January 2020: Decolonizing Wealth by Edgar Villanueva
February 2020: The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates
March 2020: White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
May 2020: There, There by Tommy Orange
June 2020: Pride (2014 film)
July 2020: Me and White Supremacy by Layla F Saad
August/September 2020: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
October/November 2020: My Vanishing Country by Bakari Sellers
December 2020: Seeing White podcast by Scene on Radio
January 2021: A Promised Land by Barack Obama
February and March 2021: The Soul of America – The Battle for Our Better Angels by John Meacham
April 2021: A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assualt on the American Mind by Harriet Washington
May 2021: Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari
June 2021: Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
September / October 2021: The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee
February / March 2022: Spirit of the Peaks: Hunkpapa Lakota skier balances athletic passion and cultural obligation (40-minute documentary film)
April / May 2022: The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nicole Hannah-Jones

Thank you to Park City Library for collaborating on the Book Club!

You can learn more about our Social Equity focus by visiting our main Social Equity page.