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I'm starting an Anti-Racist Project in my community and we will be reading this book as part of our learning. Does anyone know of some good book club discussion prompts of questions for this book?

Prune Combes Nine books I would recommend are:
1 - White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
by Robin J. DiAngelo
2 - The Color of Law…moreNine books I would recommend are:
1 - White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
by Robin J. DiAngelo
2 - The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
3 - White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Nation’s Divide by Carol Anderson
4 - A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry (Author) and Kali Nicole Gross
5 - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
6 - Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide by Prof. Sir Hilary McD. Beckles
7 - Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America by Elliot Jaspin
8 - Between the World and Me Kindle Edition by Ta-Nehisi Coates
9 - Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics by George Lipsitz

Six web links that I suggest are less of a time commitment, but still very important and beneficial:
1. Understanding My Privilege | Sue Borrego | TEDxPasadenaWomen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlRxq...
2. What Beyonce Taught Me About Race | Brittany Barron | TEDxPasadenaWomen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDzj9...
3. Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates Makes the Case for Reparations at Historic Congressional Hearing
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/6/2...
4. A TED talk on Adverse Childhood Experiences Affecting Health Across a Lifetime
https://www.ted.com/talks/nadine_burk...
5. Prof. Koritha Mitchell on Low Standards for White People
http://www.korithamitchell.com/low-st...
6. An article by Ta-Nehisi Coates on Reparations
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...(less)

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