Announcing your One Book, One Swarthmore Champions!
The votes have been tallied, and Swarthmore readers have voted for the following books for our One Book, One Swarthmore Inaugural Year! The theme for this year’s program is “I, Too, Am America,” (taken from the Langston Hughes poem, “I, Too).
Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward
In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life―to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: Why? In this book, the two-time National Book Award winner contends with the deaths of these five young men dear to her, and the risk of being a black man in the rural South.
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
Rashad and Quinn—one black, one white, both American—face the unspeakable truth that racism and prejudice didn’t die after the civil rights movement. There’s a future at stake, a future where no one else will have to be absent because of police brutality. They just have to risk everything to change the world.
I Can Do Hard Things by Gabi Garcia
Introduces children to the practice of listening to their quiet voice inside and using mindful affirmations to support them in navigating hard situations.