June 2021: The Pioneer Valley Habitat for Humanity Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) committee is reading the book So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo and is inviting the Habitat community to join us in reading the book this summer. This will give Habitat volunteers and staff a common language to talk about systemic racism and what we can do to counteract it in our work.
“Oluo gives us — both white people and people of color — that language to engage in clear, constructive, and confident dialogue with each other about how to deal with racial prejudices and biases.”
National Book Review
“Generous and empathetic, yet usefully blunt . . . it’s for anyone who wants to be smarter and more empathetic about matters of race and engage in more productive anti-racist action.”
Salon (Required Reading)