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.
The Yellow House (2019) by Sarah M. Broom
Sarah M. Broom’s The Yellow House, winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2019 is a memoir of place, class, and race. The Yellow House is the story of a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of New Orleans where Broom was raised. In 1961, Sarah M. Broom’s mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. Broom describes a mother’s struggle against a house’s entropy and that of her prodigal daughter who left home. After the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina Broom finds she must come to terms with what “home” means to her and recognize the enduring drives of clan, pride, and familial love that resist and defy erasure.
Copies of The Yellow House will be available to borrow at the Reference Desk.
Additional titles in the Writing Injustice Book Discussion Series include:
- The Old Drift (2019) by Namwali Serpell (Wednesday, February 19 at 7pm)
- Braiding Sweetgrass (2013) by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Wednesday, March 19 at 7pm)
This program is free and open to all.
Please register.