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 2019
What If I Say The Wrong Thing, by Verna A. Myer
Summer 2019
How To Be An Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi
Fall 2019 Book
Waking Up White, by Debby Irving
Winter 2019 Book
So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
Spring 2020 Book
Erasing Institutional Bias: How to Create Systemic Change for Organizational Inclusion, by Tiffany Jana and Ashley Diaz Mejias
Summer 2020 Book
White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo
Summer 2020 Book
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, by Dr. Joy DeGruy
Summer 2020 Book
Beloved, by Toni Morrison