How to Start an African-American Book Club

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I'm Jeanna Rock, and we're discussing starting an African American book club. One reason that we ought to read African American literature again is to expand our horizons, particularly if we're white people. Great literature available written by African Americans of their experience. One way to start a group like that would be, again, to post posters in a library or bookstore inviting members that are interested in reading African American literature to join with you. You might also contact your local college. Quite often they offer courses in African American literature, and you may invite that professor to be a speaker at your first meeting, which again would draw people in and get them interested in joining your group. And you also have an expert there that might even help you discuss or find suggestions for books to read. To get a good start you might begin with the most well known African American writers like Maya Angelou, Tony Morrison, Richard Wright. And consider Chinua Achebe who comes from Nigeria, who's living here in the United States. Some really great novels there. But don't limit yourself to just novels alone. Consider reading some poetry by African Americans as well. Gwendolyn Brooks and Langston Hughes are really good places to start, and you can move to more contemporary writers as well.

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