Mac Reads 2021

MAC Reads 2021

In partnership with Linfield University and Third Street Books we bring you Mac Reads 2021.

This years focus is on multiple books about anti-racism and racial healing, The Racial Healing Handbook by Anneliese A. Singh, and Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad, as well as the documentary Race: The Power of Illusion.

All of these can be accessed through the library as well as purchased from Third Street Books.

Linfield's curated Becoming an Anti-Racist page

The online companion to Race: the Power of an Illusion

Watch the recorded events @ www.youtube.com/linfielduniversity

February Film Series Race: the Power of an Illusion
February 8th @6pm	Natalie Welch	Racism and Sports
February 15th @6pm	Shanna Bowman	Biology of Skin Color
February 22nd @6pm	Leonard Finkelman	Racism and Science
March: Me and White Supremacy
March 29th @6pm	Professor Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt	Book Discussion

April: Racial Healing Handbook
April 26th @6pm	Cinthia Manuel	Book Discussion

The Racial Healing Handbook

Practical Activities To Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism & Engage In Collective Healing

By Anneliese Singh

This handbook "offers powerful and practical tools to help you explore the history of racism, challenge stereotypes, and manage the stress and remorse that result from living in an unequal worlds. You'll understand your own racial identity, navigate daily and past experiences of racism, and examine ways racism affects all aspects of life-- from work to family to relationships. FInally, you'll discover how you can fight for racial justice, be an ally, and forge the building blocks needed to create a community of healing.

Me And White Supremacy

Combat Racism, Change The World, And Become A Good Ancestor

By Layla Saad

When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #meandwhitesupremacy, she never predicted it would become a cultural movement. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviors, big and small. She was looking for truth, and she got it... Thousands of people participated in the challenge, and over 80,000 people downloaded the supporting work Me and White Supremacy. Updated and expanded from the original edition, Me and White Supremacy teaches readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.

Download the ebook and audiobook with your library card here.

Race - The Power of an Illusion

The Difference Between Us examines the contemporary science - including genetics - that challenges our common sense assumptions that human beings can be bundled into three or four fundamentally different groups according to their physical traits.

Available for free on Kanopy courtesy of your library card. Watch the video guide to Kanopy here.