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Book clubs can provide PTA leaders and families in our community a chance to have discussions on important issues. The California State PTA Legislation Team wanted to further their understanding around the issues of diversity, equity, inclusion and justice so they began a monthly book club. We hope this will inspire you to make 2021 a year of learning, collaboration and growth in the areas of diversity, equity, inclusion and justice.

The team’s first task was to create a list of books, then they set to work reading them. Every month they come together to discuss one of these selections:

• How To Be an Anti-Racist, Ibram Kendi
• The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein
• The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
• White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo
• Ghosts in the Schoolyard, Eve Ewing
• So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
• White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, Carol Anderson
• My Grandmother’s Hands, Resmaa Menakem
• We Gon Be Alright, Jeff Chang
• A More Beautiful and Terrible History, Jeanne Theoharis
• We Want to Do More than Survive, Bettina Love
• Dying of Whiteness, Jonathan Metzl
• Stamped from the Beginning, Ibram X. Kendi
• Caste, Isabel Wilkerson

Before we begin the book discussion, I want to say that this topic and many of the topics that the Leg Team and Corona Norco Council PTA are reading about in our book club are hard, difficult and emotionally charged issues. We are discussing issues that we may not all feel the same way about. California State PTA has more liberal leaning members and more conservative leaning members….and that is the beauty of our organization. So many people from different perspectives and beliefs, coming together for the good of children and families. So, I want us to be cognizant of that in our conversation. Please let’s make sure that we respect, listen and value each other’s thoughts and feelings on this topic and keep the conversation thoughtful, honest and civil. While the nation may be struggling to communicate on troubling issues, I truly believe that PTA can rise above that and we will be able to have a meaningful conversation. So let’s get started.

First Discussion - Thursday, May 20 10:30am

“The Color of Law"

We do have a limited number of books to lend to those who need them.

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