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2023 Social Justice Club Reading List

Here is the list of the books we've read for the Social Justice Book Club at Whitney Library. If you want to join us, pick up a copy at the Adult Services desk or inquire about a digital copy.

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12 items

  • How Fascism Works

    the Politics of Us and Them

    Stanley, Jason
    January 2023
    Book, 2018New York : Random House, 2018. — JC481 .S67 2018
  • The Viral Underclass

    the Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

    Thrasher, Steven W.
    February 2023
    Book, 2022New York : Celadon Books, 2022. — RA418.5.S63 T47 2022
  • Woke Racism

    How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

    McWhorter, John H.
    April 2023
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Portfolio/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021] — E185.86 .M4273 2021
  • Give People Money

    How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World

    Lowrey, Annie
    May 2023
    Book, 2018New York : Crown, [2018] — HC79.I5 L69 2018
  • The Years That Matter Most

    How College Makes or Breaks Us

    Tough, Paul
    June 2023 (also under the title The Inequality Machine)
    Book, 2019Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. — LB2351 .T68 2019
  • July 2023
    Book, 2004New York : Washington Square Press, [2004] — HQ1090 .H655 2004
  • The Great Escape

    a True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America

    Soni, Saket, 1977-
    August 2023
    Book, 2023Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2023. — HD4875.U5 S66 2023
  • September 2023
    Book, 2023New York : Crown, [2023] — HC110.P6 D46 2023
  • Doughnut Economics

    Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist

    Raworth, Kate,
    October 2023
    Book, 2017White River Junction, Vermont : Chelsea Green Publishing, [2017] — HB75 .R38 2017
  • Hillbilly Elegy

    a Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

    Vance, J. D.
    November 2023
    Book, 2016New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins, Publishers, [2016] — HD8073.V37 A3 2016
  • December 2023
    Book, 2020New York, NY : Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2020. — F