Our staff has put together a list of resources that we hope will be helpful to you in your journey to better understand the undercurrents of race in our country. This list is merely a starting point — a launchpad of sorts. While every book listed below includes a direct link to Amazon, we challenge you to do the work of finding and purchasing these books from minority-owned bookstores.
R E A D
- Heal Us, Emmanuel: A Call for Racial Reconciliation, Representation, and Unity in the Church (Doug Serven)
- The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas)
- One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love (John Perkins)
- Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America (Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith)
- Some of My Friends Are…: The Daunting Challenges and Untapped Benefits of Cross-Racial Friendships (Deborah Plummer)
- Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice That Restores (Dominique DuBois Gilliard)
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Robin DiAngelo)
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race (Beverly Daniel Tatum)
- Be the Bridge: Pursuing God’s Heart for Racial Reconciliation (Latasha Morrison)
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (Bryan Stevenson)
- How to Be an Antiracist (Ibram X. Kendi)
- The Fire Next Time (James Baldwin)
- The Souls of Black Folk (W.E.B. Du Bois)
- Aliens in the Promised Land: Why Minority Leadership Is Overlooked in White Christian Churches and Institutions (Anthony B. Bradley)
- The Last Segregated Hour: The Memphis Kneel-Ins and the Campaign for Southern Church Desegregation (Stephen R. Haynes)
- Open Friendship in a Closed Society: Mission Mississippi and a Theology of Friendship (Peter Slade)
- The Many Costs of Racism (Joe R. Feagin)
- The White Racial Frame: Centuries of Racial Framing and Counter-Framing (Joe R. Feagin)
- Jesus and the Disinherited (Howard Thurman)
- Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Claude M. Steele)
- Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
- Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- The Miseducation of the Negro (Carter Godman Woodson)
- Black and Free (Tom Skinner)
- American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass (Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton)
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Richard Rothstein)
- Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives (Howard J. Ross)
- Free at Last?: The Gospel in the African-American Experience (Carl F. Ellis Jr.)
- Prophets of Culture: Protest and Anarchy in Black and Blue (Carl F. Ellis Jr. blog post)
W A T C H / L I S T E N
- When They See Us (Netflix)
- 13th (Netflix)
- True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality (HBO)
- Just Mercy (justmercyfilm.com)
- The Hate U Give (YouTube, Google Play, Vudu, Amazon Prime, Hulu)
- 1619 (podcast: The New York Times, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher)
- Truth’s Table (podcast: truthstable.com, Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud)
F O L L O W
- Jackie Hill Perry
- Preston Perry
- AND Campaign
- The Conscious Kid
- Here Wee Read
- Black Coffee with White Friends
- Ekemini Uwan (Sista Theology)
- lecrae
- Be The Bridge (Be A Bridge Builder)
- Latasha Morrison
- Because of Them We Can
- Jemar Tisby