Books by Viola Davis
Finding Me: A Memoir
by Viola Davis
🏆 Winner of the 2023 Grammy for Best Audiobook, Narration, and Storytelling
🏆 Winner of the 2023 Audie Awards Audiobook of the Year
In Finding Me, Viola Davis shares her struggles with poverty, abuse, and racism, as well as her triumphs and the lessons she has learned on her journey to becoming a celebrated actor.
“As a Black family in Providence, her parents had a hard time finding jobs. They were so poor they had no new clothes. There was abuse in the family, and abuse in the neighborhood. She talks about getting bullied at school, how her teachers mistreated her because she was Black and also poor. She didn’t smell good because she wet her bed. Her parents couldn’t help with that either, because they were so stressed. What she demonstrates is the deep stress of poverty, and how that stress creates more opportunities for abuse and for discrimination. It’s a harrowing read, but it’s also really inspiring because she talks about how hard she worked to figure out how to get out of it. She was the only one of her siblings who was able to get up and out. She’s really one in a million. This is not an example of how people should do it…If people could read this memoir, they would have a sense of camaraderie with her, of solidarity and love that maybe will expand their hearts so that they can start to take action in the United States to change things.” Read more...
Interviews where books by Viola Davis were recommended
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Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty
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White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
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Sweet Charity? Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement
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Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance Between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups
by Andrew Fisher -
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Finding Me: A Memoir
by Viola Davis
The best books on Hunger in the United States, recommended by Mariana Chilton
The best books on Hunger in the United States, recommended by Mariana Chilton
Hunger in the United States is not going to be solved just by giving people more food, says Mariana Chilton, a professor of public health at Drexel University and author of The Painful Truth about Hunger in America. She recommends books to get a better understanding of hunger and argues that food banks have become part of the problem.
