Category Archives: Race relations

BECOMING by Michelle Obama

Posted on November 23, 2018 by OnlyGoodBooks

Michelle Obama’s memoir, BECOMING, is a humble, honest account of what so far has been an amazing life. “When I was a kid,” she begins, “my aspirations were simple. I wanted a dog. I wanted a house that had stairs … Continue reading →

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EVICTED by Matthew Desmond

Posted on December 2, 2017 by OnlyGoodBooks

Having just finished DREAMLAND, about the opioid crisis, I turned to EVICTED, the 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winner subtitled Poverty and Profit in the American City. You could say I’m a glutton for bad news, but it’s more like I’m trying to … Continue reading →

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AMERICANAH by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Posted on May 26, 2017 by OnlyGoodBooks

  In the opening scene of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s AMERICANAH, the main character has to travel from Princeton to Trenton because no one in Princeton knows how to braid her hair. And it goes on from there. Following Ifemelu, a … Continue reading →

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BORN A CRIME by Trevor Noah

Posted on April 13, 2017 by OnlyGoodBooks

Trevor Noah’s memoir BORN A CRIME (subtitled Stories from a South African Childhood) is actually three books in one: an insider’s account of what it was like for a mixed-race person to grow up in South Africa during apartheid, a … Continue reading →

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WHISTLING VIVALDI by Claude M. Steele

Posted on May 15, 2016 by OnlyGoodBooks

This amazing book, subtitled How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do, takes its title from a story that Brent Staples (now a NY Times columnist but then a University of Chicago psychology graduate student), told about an experience … Continue reading →

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KATRINA by Gary Rivlin

Posted on August 25, 2015 by OnlyGoodBooks

Ten years ago today, the National Weather Service announced that “Tropical Depression 12” had become “Hurricane Katrina.” From that point on, day after day, the news became more and more grim. We all know what happened—well, we knew what the … Continue reading →

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BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Posted on July 22, 2015 by OnlyGoodBooks

  Toni Morrison has called this book “required reading,” and I agree. Carved as a letter to his teenaged son, BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME explains why Ta-Nehisi Coates feels the way he feels and views the world the way … Continue reading →

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