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Economic Inequality Reading Group

Next meeting: Tuesday, January 23, 7 pm, Elders Room

You are invited to a monthly reading group focused on economic inequality in the current United States. The group offers an opportunity for a thoughtful conversation centered on nine books by diverse authors. The authors approach education, health and health care, housing, gender and racial inequalities, sexuality, location, incarceration, and immigration status with a common theme of economic inequality. Selected from a variety of genres, each book will guide a discussion of understanding with compassion and responding boldly to the suffering and structural injustices of economic inequality.

All are welcome to join monthly or drop in and out as time and interest allows.

The third meeting will focus on Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.

The group facilitator is Angie Cecil. Please be in touch with questions.

Dates: We will meet from September to May on the fourth Tuesday of the month (except December and May when we’ll meet on the third Tuesday to avoid holidays).

Time:  7–8:30 pm
Location: Elders Room
Facilitator: Angie Cecil

The list of  selected texts and meeting dates posted below can also be found on the foyer bulletin board and is available in the Christian Education catalog (2023-24):

September 26: Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond

October 24:  House of Sticks by Ly Tran

November 28: Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

December 19: Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

January 23: Abundance by Jakob Guanzon

February 27: The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease by Daisy Hernández

March 26: The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide by Steven W. Thrasher (paperback to be released January 2, 2024)

April 23:  Mercurochrome by Wanda Coleman and I Know Your Kind by William Brewer (two short poetry collections)

May 21: There There by Tommy Orange

All books are or will be available in paperback except the first text. All are available used or at the public library. East City Bookshop has stocked copies of each text if you wish to support a local women-owned bookshop.

Questions? Please reach out to angie.e.cecil@gmail.com.

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