Education is a form of engagement
Make it your practice to explore a variety of materials as you understand the complex history surrounding present day race relations in America. Reading and research better prepares you for being a conversation partner and an ally for change. We encourage you to find new and exciting information as you engage this topic. Here's a list to get you started!
Articles + Essays
Walking While Black by Garnette Cadogan
White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies (Includes “Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”) by Peggy McIntosh
The Marshall Project- a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system.
Dear White Moms by Keesha Beckford
Social Psychology & Spiritual Justice, a blog by Christena Cleveland
A Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.
Racial Bias in Crosswalks? Study Says Yes by La Monica Everette Haynes
We are Committing Educational Malpractice: Why Slavery is Mistaught—and Worse—in American Schools by Nikita Stewart
Liberty and Justice Has Never Been for All by Marley K.
Guide to Allyship: An Open Source Starter Guide to Help You Become a More Thoughtful and Effective Ally by Amélie Lamont
“African American Vernacular English is Not Standard English with Mistakes” Rebecca S. Wheeler
film + Video
"3 Ways to Speak English" by Jamilla Lyiscott
"The Danger of a Single Story" by Chimamanda Adichie
"How to Raise a Black Son in America" by Clint Smith
"Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome" Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary
13th, Ava DuVernay (Netflix)
I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck & James Baldwin
Get Out, Jordan Peele (w/Discussion Piece from Non-Doc)
When They See Us, Ava Duverney (Netflix)
Podcasts
Code Switch News from the frontiers of race, ethnicity and culture from NPR
The Liturgists (Episode 34: Black and White Racism in America)
Books
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When the Stakes are High, Kerry Patterson and Joseph Grenny
Generous Justice: How God’s Grace Makes Us Just, Timothy Keller
Roadmap to Reconciliation: Moving Communities Into Unity, Wholeness and Justice, Brenda Salter McNeil and Eugene Cho
Sonny’s Blues, James Baldwin
The Idea of Race, Edited by Robert Bernasoni and Tommy L. Lott
The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois
Welcoming Justice: God’s Movement Toward Beloved Community (Resources for Reconciliation), Charles Marsh and John M. Perkins
Why Are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race, Beverly Daniel Tatum
Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America, Tanner Colby
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
The Sellout, Paul Beatty
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor, Layla F. Saad
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, Austin Channing Brown
White Fragility: Why it’s so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo and Michael Eric Dyson
Strength to Love, Martin Luther King, Jr.