Quaker Utopias

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June-July 2021

June/July 2021 Books

We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility

By Marc Lamont Hill. Haymarket Books, 2020. 128 pages. $40/hardcover; $12.95/paperback or eBook. In May 2020, professor, author, and activist…

Reviewed by David Austin

June/July 2021 Books

A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War

By William G. Thomas III. Yale University Press, 2020. 432 pages. $35/hardcover  or eBook. As a historian, I probably fully…

Reviewed by Larry Ingle

June/July 2021 Books

From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century

By William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen. The University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 424 pages. $28/hardcover; $21.99/eBook.…

Reviewed by Anna Carolyn McCormally

June/July 2021 Books

The Riches of This Land: The Untold, True Story of America’s Middle Class

By Jim Tankersley. PublicAffairs, 2020. 320 pages. $28/hardcover; $17.99/paperback (available in September) or eBook. Many people feel these days as…

Reviewed by J. E. McNeil

June/July 2021 Books

Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women and A Woman’s Place: Inside the Fight for a Feminist Future

By Kate Manne. Crown, 2020. 288 pages. $27/hardcover; $17/paperback (available in August); $13.99/eBook. By Kylie Cheung. North Atlantic Books, 2020.…

Reviewed by Windy Cooler

June/July 2021 Books

The Reindeer Chronicles and Other Inspiring Stories of Working with Nature to Heal the Earth

By Judith D. Schwartz. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2020. 256 pages. $17.95/paperback or eBook. Could land restoration play a significant role…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

June/July 2021 Books

In Brief: The Life of Richard Cadbury: Socialist, Philanthropist, and Chocolatier

By Diane Wordsworth. Pen and Sword History, 2020. 176 pages. $39.95/hardcover; $24.95/paperback (available in August); $19.99/eBook. Richard Cadbury was one…

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

June/July 2021 Books

In Brief: Facilitating Group Learning: Strategies for Success with Diverse Learners (Second Edition)

By George Lakey. PM Press, 2020. 320 pages. $20/paperback; $8.95/eBook. Teaching is a space of perennial interest, and in this…

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

June/July 2021 Books

In Brief: My Life Is a Quilt: A Book of Quaker Messages

By Wendy Clarissa Geiger. Southeastern Yearly Meeting Publishing, 2020. 133 pages. $15/paperback. This little book is square in shape, which…

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

June/July 2021 Books

In Brief: Born East-West: Stories of a Quaker Hippie Jesus Freak

By Sarah McClelland McMullen. Self-published, 2020. 296 pages. $14.99/paperback; $6.99/eBook. I have a fondness for memoirs, and for ones that…

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

June/July 2021 Books

In Brief: Choosing Life: My Father’s Journey in Film from Hollywood to Hiroshima

By Leslie A. Sussan. Self-published, 2020. 350 pages. $16.99/paperback; $4.99/eBook. This is a book with a complicated origin. For the…

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

June/July 2021 Books

In Brief: In the Light of Silence

By Linda Carrillo. Resource Publications, 2020. 264 pages. $47/hardcover; $27/paperback or eBook. Writing a novel is one of the trickiest…

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

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