By Jemma Johnson
Posted Monday, November 7, 2022

R.E.A.D. Book Club

Knowledge is power!

You are invited to join the Walkertown Branch Library’s social issues book club, R.E.A.D.: "Reading for Empathy, Advocacy, and Discourse." Each month the group will read a book covering a social issue or topic in history and meet for a guided discussion and a chance to share viewpoints and perspectives. The meetings are a space in which to learn and grow in a safe, inclusive environment.

The book club meets the first Tuesday of the every month, starting at 5 p.m., at the Walkertown Branch Library. Registration is suggested but not required.

November

Meeting on November 8 at 5 p.m.

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

"Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortizoffers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire." -Amazon.com

Place hold here, or pick a copy at the Walkertown Branch

The R.E.A.D. Book Club will not meet in December or January. Meetings will resume in February.

February

Meeting on February 7 at 5 p.m.

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American Cityby Matthew Desmond

"In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible. " -Amazon.com

Place hold here, or pick a copy at the Walkertown Branch