Faculty & Staff Book Club
Potomac's antiracist book club meets at least once a month to discuss issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion through the lens of some award-winning, thought-provoking reads. Since the club's inception in 2019, participants have learned and grown together while reading works such as Ibram X. Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist, Ijeoma Oluo's So You Want to Talk about Race, and Verna A. Myer's What If I Say the Wrong Thing? Guidelines and expectations for productive discussions are laid out before the beginning of each meeting. Ultimately, club members strive to apply what they learn to furthering DEI efforts at The Potomac School.
Spring 2022 Book
Greyboy: Finding Blackness in a White World
Fall 2021 Book
Allies - Real Talk About Showing Up, Screwing Up, and Trying Again by Shakirah Bourne and Dana Alison Levy
Summer 2021 Book
Start Here, Start Now: A Guide to Antibias and Antiracist Work in Your School Community by Liz Kleinrock
Spring 2021 Book
Our Time is Now, by Stacey Abrams
Summer 2020 Book
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, by Dr. Joy DeGruy
Summer 2020 Book
Summer 2020 Book
White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo
Spring 2020 Book
Erasing Institutional Bias: How to Create Systemic Change for Organizational Inclusion, by Tiffany Jana and Ashley Diaz Mejias
So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
Winter 2019 Book
Fall 2019 Book
Waking Up White, by Debby Irving
Summer 2019
How To Be An Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi
Spring 2019
What If I Say The Wrong Thing, by Verna A. Myer