Through literature, film, and other media, the Writing Injustice Book Group invites the Guilford community to explore the issues of race and inequality that shape our history and our world.
Conversations will be led and facilitated by Hazel V. Carby, the Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor Emeritus of African American Studies and Professor Emeritus of American Studies at Yale University, and Donna Daniels, Ph.D., CEO of Possibility Labs, and Cultural Anthropologist.
This Winter/Spring 2026, Writing Injustice will consider three remarkable novels that grapple with the theme of memory and how the past, present, and future intertwine and shape us.
The legends say something happened in Chaneysville. The Chaneysville Incident is the powerful story of one man’s obsession with discovering what that something was, a quest that takes the brilliant and bitter young Black historian, John Washington, back through the secrets and buried evil of his heritage. Returning home to care for and then bury his father’s closest friend and his own guardian, Old Jack Crawley, John comes upon the scant records of his family’s proud and tragic history, which he drives himself to reconstruct and accept. This is the story of John’s relationship with his family, the town, and the woman he loves; and also, between the past and the present, between oppression and guilt, hate and violence, love and acceptance.
Copies of The Chaneysville Incident will be available at the Reference Desk.
These programs are free and open to all. Please register online, by phone, or in person at the reference desk.
Please register.