Vanity: Counter wokeness books

Vanity

[Betty Jane]

My friend who works at Charter School that has fallen under the spell of a Woke Principal has been given a mandatory reading list. They must choose one. I'm looking for suggestions to offer to counter the woke list.

Here's the List:

Raising White Kids

Blind Spot

Culturally Responsive Education in the Classroom

Stamped- Racism, Antiracism and you

White Fragility

[no-to-illegals]

Gone With The Wind

[Betty Jane]

LOL. I don’t think that will go over well.

[Joe Brower]

I am reading this at the moment, and it is a solid, concise and easy-to read narrative of the institutionalized insanity that current plagues both our culture and our nation.

THE WOKE SUPREMACY: An Anti-Socialist Manifesto by Evan Sayet

[no-to-illegals]

Red Tails

[KarlInOhio]

1984

It might not be specifically "anti-woke", but it is good for any case of totalitarianism and government mandated self-delusion.

[USMC79to83]

"Setting the Record Straight: American History in Black & White"

https://www.amazon.com/Setting-Record-Straight-American-History/dp/1932225277

[Betty Jane]

Thanks. Keep them coming. I don’t know if they will be open to these suggestions but mu friend is livid. It so disappointing to see this happening there. Forcing staff to read propaganda is evil. My daughter went there as alternative to the regular liberal indoctrination. That was 15 years ago. They worm their way into everything and destroy them.

[catnipman]

Animal Farm

Harrison Bergeron

1984

for older kids:

Atlas Shrugged

[Chickensoup]

Tell your friends to remove their children. This is the garbage you can see. There is so much more. It is a lost cause.

[Betty Jane]

I know it’s lost and it makes me so sad. The reason I chose that school for my now grown daughter was because they taught kids to read, write and do math with no agenda. Most of the parents were conservative and left the regular public schools. There were a couple of liberal teachers, but most were not. They sent their own children there. Now the good ones are mostly retired and the staff is liberal. And being forced to read this BS.

[wildbill]

1984 by George Orwell. He disects virtually every aspect of ‘wokeness’ with a book that predicted a future woke dystopian society that we may be going to

Heather McDonald’s book War on Cops refutes aall the BLM claims with facts.

[Home-of-the-lazy-dog]

“Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand.

[cyclotic]

My Grandfather’s Son-Clarence Thomas

Anything by Thomas Sowell or Walter Williams.

[grey_whiskers]

The Bible (hey, if they can mandate saying the Shahada...)

The Black Book of Communism.

The Gulag Archipelago

The Devil and Karl Marx

Free to Choose

The Screwtape Letters

Cicero's The Republic / The Laws

The Declaration of Independence

P. J. O'Rourke, "A Parliament of Whores" and/or "All the Trouble In The World"

[nonliberal]

The Vision of the Anointed by Thomas Sowell.

[ghost.of.patton]

Great Idea post!

Animal Farm - "Some animals are MORE EQUAL than others" … highly relevant to 2020, and a wider audience than 1984 (too dry and dark for non-HSers IMHO)

The Art of the Deal - esp. Chp 12 - The Wollman Rink

Anti-Woke (Essays, this HAS to be good)

George Washington on Leadership - The key figure in America's original Start-Up

[Betty Jane]

Thank you all for your suggestions. I have relayed them. We’ll see what happens.

[TianaHighrider]

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[Persevero]

1985

The Gulag Archipelago

Productive Christians In An Age of Guilt Manipulators

More Guns, Less Crime

Diary of Ann Frank

I, Pencil