POWER Book Club
POWER Book Club
POWER Book Club began in August 2020 by Dr. Jenni Djafari, Dr. Iliana Harrysson, Dr. Amna Khan, and Dr. Anat Lotan. Their vision was to create a virtual safe space to discuss anti-racism focused books that centered on the lived experience of historically marginalized communities, many of which we serve in our daily clinical practice.
Book titles are thoughtfully curated and selected on a regular rotation by the book club committee with input by attendees. The group meets virtually every two months, often on a Sunday evening. This format of educational programming focuses on a two-step process that we recapitulate in all our Pedi POWER content—education first, then action. We tailor our book club discussions to highlight the new information we learned, followed closely with how to mobilize that information into actionable items for our clinical practice. Over the course of the last 4 years, reading these books together has brought new insight into how we best serve a diverse patient population with extensive psychosocial needs to ensure that children are best able to achieve their inherent potential and become thriving adults in their communities.
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Here is a list of the books that have been read and discussed.
- How to be an Antiracist, by Ibram. X. Kendi
- Well Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves, by Glory Edim
- Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care, by Dayna Bowen Matthew
- The Undocumented Americans, by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas, by Roberto Lovato
- This Close to Okay: A Novel, by Leesa Cross-Smith
- Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, by Harriet A. Washington
- The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories, by Danielle Evans
- Heart Berries, by Terese Marie Mailhot
- The Firekeepers Daughter, by Angeline Boulley
- How the Other Half Eat: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America, by Priya Fielding-Singh
- The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, by Thi Bui
- We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story, by Simu Liu
- Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City, by Andrea Elliot
- Nightcrawling, by Leila Mottley
- The Seedkeeper, by Diane Wilson
- Caste: The Origins of our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson
- The Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri
- True Biz, by Sara Nović
- Under The Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation, by Linda Villarosa
- Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of an Ordinary Life on the Body in an Unjust Society, by Arline T. Geronimus