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Join us for our August 5, 2021 Discussion 
 

Hello CWBA members!  I am honored to take the lead for the CWBA Book Club.  My goal is to select books that challenge our thinking and aid in our shared desire to grow as humans and attorneys.  Our non-fiction book selections will be posted here.  To facilitate discussion, I may post questions about our selection or supplemental reference materials in the book club forum.  One other way to engage will be during our bi-monthly zoom hosted by the CWBA.  If you are not comfortable participating online, feel free to reach out to me offline to chat more about the selection.  I hope you find value in the book club and I look forward to your feedback. 

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Best, Amy Petri Beard

Our Next Book:

Appealing For Justice: One Lawyer, Four Decades, and the Landmark Gay Rights Case: Romer v. Evans
by Susan Berry Casey

Jean Eberhart Dubofsky came of age when trouble was around every corner, fueled by one grave injustice or another. Appealing For Justice is the story of how this shy, unknown, and unheralded woman found her place at the table again and again, then led the way, broke down barriers and helped shape the direction and flow of history. At almost every step, Jean Dubofsky’s story mirrors, reflects, or reveals the depth of the injustice, discrimination, and inequality that lay hidden just beneath the surface of the country we thought ourselves to be.

Our Last Book:

The Making of Asian America: A History 
by Erika Lee

The Making of Asian America shows how generations of Asian immigrants and their American-born descendants have made and remade Asian American life, from sailors who came on the first Trans-Pacific ships in the 1500s to the Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. Over the past 50 years, a new Asian America has emerged out of community activism and the arrival of new immigrants and refugees. No longer a “despised minority,” Asian Americans are now held up as America’s “model minorities” in ways that reveal the complicated role that race still plays in the United States.

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​Awarded the 2015 -2016 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Adult Non-Fiction from the American Library Association