Hey folks! Happy Father’s Day and welcome back. The pink room is once again back and open for visitors… So grab a seat, get comfortable… we might be here for a little while.
As we settle into another COVID summer, I thought you might still be looking for something to do with all that time at home. Since I have mentioned quite a few times about the reading I have done this year I thought it would be cool for me to actually share my recommended reading list. So that way, when you get a moment you can grab some cool lemonade, and get cozy under the sun and crack open one of these books…
Couple quick notes before the books (because well, what would this blog be without them):
- This is not necessarily a book list for the summer and to that end some of these books took me months to digest because well seeing for the first time can be hard when you didn’t realize you were blind. But nonetheless, these are books that have literally changed my life in past year and a half and are continuing to transform me.
- A quick logistical note, not every book on here I have actually finished or started reading. I will put a single asterisk next to the books I have started, really enjoying but still in process of reading and two asterisks next books that are on my reading list but I have yet to actually get started on them. That way you can join me this summer and we can read together.
- Lastly, I know you all are probably reading really cool books too so please feel free to shoot me an email at fromthepinkroom@gmail.com or send me a message on the Contact page about the books you are reading this summer
So without a further a do….I give you Jamie’s “Summer” book list (and other media)
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Inequality in the Promised Land by R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy
- DisCrit: Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston
- We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina Love
- The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity and Love by bell hooks
- Why are all the Black Kids Sitting together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Tatum
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
- Pass Over by Antionette Nwandu
- Until the Flood by Dael Orlandersmith
- Kill Move Paradise by James Ijames
- For Colored Girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange
- The Blue Parakeet by Scott McKnight
- *Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Pauolo Friere
- *My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
- *The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
- *Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
- *N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice and the Law by Jody Armour
- *You are Your Best Thing by Tarana Burke a d Brené Brown
- **Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
- **Experiments in Joy by Gabrielle Civil
- ** The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee
- ** Escaping the Beast by Michael Burns
- “Reclaiming my Theology” Podcast hosted by Brandi Miller
- “The Bible Project Podcast” hosted by Tim Mackie and Jon Collins
Alright that’s the end. See you all back here real soon in the pink room!
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