My book, Race and Social Change: A Quest, A Study, A Call to Action was published in 2017 (and was based on research conducted much earlier, in 2002-2003). It’s the first book I’ve published, and I didn’t know what to expect in terms of interest and impact. As it turned out, the book didn’t seem to generate much interest when it was first released. Even after working with a publicity firm that got me about 20 interviews on public radio stations across the country, the energy around the book seemed very minimal.
In recent months, that has begun to change. One of the responses to the massive wave of Black Lives Matter demonstrations across the nation sparked by the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and too many others has been a growing number of reading resource lists compiled by educational institutions across the country. It has been meaningful to see my book appear on a growing number of these lists alongside other highly influential books addressing issues of racial injustice and anti-racist activism.
Here’s an overview of the institutions that have included my book in their list of resources to date:
Duke Law School: Race, Oppression and Social Change Resource Guide
It’s exciting to see this growing interest in the book, and—as always—my hope is that it might bring some insight, light, and positive change to this painful moment of reckoning with our nation’s long history of racial injustice.
I’ll be sure to keep the list updated in the months ahead.