Ferguson Readings on Race

Reading Group books are available from Left Bank Books in St. Louis, MO at a 20% discount.

This is a private group that accepts new members. They meet on the second Monday of the month at 6:00pm at the Ferguson Municipal Library 35 North Florissant Rd, Ferguson, MO. If you are interested in joining, please send Shane an email at shane.m@left-bank.com

2023 Titles:

January 9, 2023, 6pm: Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (parts 1-5) by Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain

February 13, 2023, 6pm: Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (parts 6-10) by Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain

March 13, 2023, 6pm: Climbing the Ladder, Chasing the Dream: The History of Homer G. Phillips Hospital by Candace O’Connor

April 10, 2023, 6pm: Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth by Ben Westhoff

May 8, 2023, 6pm: The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family by Kerri K. Greenidge

June 12, 2023, 6pm: An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States by Kyle T. Mays

July 10, 2023, 6pm: You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar

August 14, 2023, 6pm: Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities by Craig Steven Wilder

September 11, 2023, 6pm: Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

October 9, 2023, 6pm: My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song by Emily Bingham

November 13, 2023, 6pm: The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

December 11, 2023, 6pm: Cherish Farrah by Tiffany C. Morrow

 

2024 Picks

January 8, 2024, 6pm: Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness by Laura Coates

February 12, 2024, 6pm: Twigs from the Bush by Margaret Bush Wilson (Unavailable to order; Contact Ferguson Library about obtaining a copy)

 

Previous Titles: 2015-2016 Titles, 2017 Titles, 2018 Titles, 2019 Titles, 2020 Titles, 2021 Titles, 2022 Titles

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 By Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9780593449349
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Published: One World - February 1st, 2022

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Climbing the Ladder, Chasing the Dream: The History of Homer G. Phillips Hospital By Candace O’Connor, Eva Louise Frazer (Foreword by) Cover Image
$40.00
ISBN: 9780826222473
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Published: University of Missouri - February 21st, 2022

Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth By Ben Westhoff Cover Image
$29.00
ISBN: 9780306923173
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Published: Hachette Books - May 24th, 2022

The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family By Kerri K. Greenidge Cover Image
$32.50
ISBN: 9781324090847
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Published: Liveright - November 8th, 2022

An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States (ReVisioning History #6) By Kyle T. Mays Cover Image
$18.95
ISBN: 9780807006993
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Published: Beacon Press - November 15th, 2022

You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism By Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781538719350
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - June 21st, 2022

Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities By Craig Steven Wilder Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9781608194025
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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - September 2nd, 2014