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.
One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston’s beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told with haunting sympathy and piercing immediacy, we follow the story of fiercely independent, Janie Crawford, and her evolving selfhood through three marriages and a life shaped by poverty, trials, and purpose.
Copies of Their Eyes Were Watching God 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.