Our volunteer reviewers share some of their all-time favorite books for Quakers.
Reviewed by David Etheridge in Friends Journal
Searching article titles, author names, and full text of all articles since 2002:
The Class of ’65: A Student, a Divided Town, and the Long Road to Forgiveness
By Jim Auchmutey. PublicAffairs, 2015. 270 pages. $25.99/hardcover; $17.99/eBook. In the fall of 1960, the school board of Americus, Ga., […]
David Etheridge is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and clerk of Baltimore Yearly Meeting’s Working Group on Racism.
Posted in: January 2016 Books, January 2016: Quakers and the Political Process, Quaker Book Reviews
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
By Robin DiAngelo. Beacon Press, 2018. 192 pages. $16/paperback; $12.99/eBook. Robin DiAngelo, the white woman who wrote this book, has […]
David Etheridge is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and clerk of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Working Group on Racism.
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2018, September 2018 Books
Beyond the Burning Bus: The Civil Rights Revolution in a Southern Town
By Phil Noble. NewSouth Books, 2013. 169 pages. $19.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook. In the April 16, 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail” Martin […]
David Etheridge is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and clerk of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Working Group on Racism.
Posted in: August 2015 Books, August 2015: The Effects of War, Quaker Book Reviews
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
By Michael Eric Dyson. St. Martin’s Press, 2017. 228 pages. $24.99/hardcover; $11.99/eBook. Michael Eric Dyson earned his PhD in 1993, […]
David Etheridge is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and clerk of Baltimore Yearly Meeting’s Working Group on Racism.
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2017, September 2017 Books
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Written by Ava DuVernay and Spencer Averick, directed by Ava DuVernay. Netflix Documentary, 2016. 100 minutes. Public screenings are free […]
David Etheridge is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and clerk of Baltimore Yearly Meeting’s Working Group on Racism.
Posted in: August 2017 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, The Art of Dying
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. Beacon Press, 2014. 296 pages. $16/paperback; $15.99/eBook. This book is part of Beacon Press’s ReVisioning American History […]
David Etheridge is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and clerk of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Working Group on Racism. He previously worked for over 20 years as an attorney in the Indian Affairs Division of the Solicitor’s Office of the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Posted in: January 2017 Books, January 2017: Quakers in the Workplace
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