The Dock C. Bracy Center for Human Reconciliation Complete Reading List
The Dock C. Bracy Center for Human Reconciliation’s Reading for Understanding monthly virtual book discussions are free and have two requirements: Read/listen to the book and make time for the discussion. Read the Bracy Center’s press release for the 2023 Book Discussion Series Selection & Celebrating Black-Owned Bookstores.
January 2023 Selection
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- 8 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- Kirkus Prize Finalist/Winner 2022
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Publication Date: Nov 16, 2021
List Price: $38.00
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780593230572
Imprint: One World
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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February 2023 Selection
A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America
by David K. Shipler
Publication Date: Sep 01, 1998
List Price: $16.95
Format: Paperback, 624 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780679734543
Imprint: Vintage
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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March 2023 Selection
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
by Erika Lee
Publication Date: Nov 26, 2019
List Price: $32.00
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781541672604
Imprint: Basic Books
Publisher: Perseus Books
Parent Company: Lagardère Group
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April 2023 Selection
An Uncommon Faith: A Pragmatic Approach to the Study of African American Religion
by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Publication Date: Nov 15, 2018
List Price: $21.95
Format: Paperback, 90 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780820354170
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Parent Company: University of Georgia
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May 2023 Selection
How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America
by Priya Fielding-Singh
Publication Date: Nov 16, 2021
List Price: $28.00
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780316427265
Imprint: Little, Brown Spark
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Parent Company: Lagardère Group
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June 2023 Selection
Living While Black: Using Joy, Beauty, and Connection to Heal Racial Trauma
by Guilaine Kinouani
Publication Date: Jan 25, 2022
List Price: $24.95
Format: Hardcover, 264 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780807054581
Imprint: Beacon Press
Publisher: Beacon Press
Parent Company: Unitarian Universalist Association
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July 2023 Selection
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
by Harriet A. Washington
- 3 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- 2007 BCALA Literary Award
Publication Date: Jan 08, 2008
List Price: $18.95
Format: Paperback, 528 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780767915472
Imprint: Anchor
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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August 2023 Selection
Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Publication Date: Aug 24, 2021
List Price: $27.95
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780807036297
Imprint: Beacon Press
Publisher: Beacon Press
Parent Company: Unitarian Universalist Association
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September 2023 Selection
Why We Can’t Wait (King Legacy)
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Publication Date: Jan 11, 2011
List Price: $16.00
Format: Paperback, 208 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780807001127
Imprint: Beacon Press
Publisher: Beacon Press
Parent Company: Unitarian Universalist Association
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October 2023 Selection
Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil
by Susan Neiman
Publication Date: Sep 08, 2020
List Price: $20.00
Format: Paperback, 432 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781250750112
Imprint: Picador
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
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November 2023 Selection
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
by Andrés Reséndez
Publication Date: Apr 18, 2017
List Price: $16.99
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780544947108
Imprint: Mariner Books
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Parent Company: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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December 2023 Selection
Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America
by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Publication Date: Dec 09, 2021
List Price: $50.00
Format: Paperback, 392 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781538151419
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Parent Company: Rowman & Littlefield