On the WLP Bookshelf

At WLP, we believe in the power of empathy and compassion. Although most of us will never be able to truly understand the struggles endured by our community, learning about the issues and injustices they face is an important step in working towards a better future.

Each month, we will be featuring a WLP Bookshelf recommendation that delves into important issues and helps us understand diverse viewpoints within our community. View our Bookshelf below. If shopping on Amazon, select WLP as your charity of choice and shop through Amazon Smile and we will receive a portion of all sales!

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Current bookshelf pick

Just Us: An American Conversation

BY CLAUDIA RANKINE

"As everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand, how best might we approach one another? Claudia Rankine, without telling us what to do, urges us to begin the discussions that might open pathways through this divisive and stuck moment in American history.

Just Us is an invitation to discover what it takes to stay in the room together, even and especially in breaching the silence, guilt, and violence that follow direct addresses of whiteness. Rankine’s questions disrupt the false comfort of our culture’s liminal and private spaces—the airport, the theater, the dinner party, the voting booth—where neutrality and politeness live on the surface of differing commitments, beliefs, and prejudices as our public and private lives intersect."

Poetic and educational, Just Us is a must-read for anyone looking to understand and improve the larger circumstances behind many of the issues that WLP seeks to address through our healthy meals, advocacy, and direct care programs.

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