THREADED RESOURCES
We've collected a library of resources and information that will be helpful in the conversation of racial reconciliation. We cannot endorse every word and image of every resource, but each are quality additions to the ongoing discussion and work.
Check Out These Books:
Below are a collection of books we think bring multiple perspectives that are important.
Oneness Embraced
by Tony Evans
Jesus and the Disinherited
By Howard Thurman
White Lies
Nine Ways to Expose and Resist the Racial Systems that Divide Us
By Daniel Hill
Becoming Brave
Finding the Courage to Pursue Racial Justice Now
By Brenda Salter McNeil
Color of Law
The Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America
By Richard Rothstein
The Christian Imagination
Theology and the Origins of Race
By Willie James Jennings
How to Fight Racism
Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice
By Jemar Tisby
Half Breed
Finding Unity in a Divided World
By LeTesha Wheeler
With Justice For All
by John Perkins
Roadmap to Reconciliation
By Brenda Salter McNeil
Unsetting Truths
The Ongoing Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery
By Mark Charles
The Color of Compromise
The Truth About the American Church's Complicity in Racism
By Jemar Tisby
Woke Church
An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice
by Eric Mason
Stride Toward Freedom
The Montgomery Story
By Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Where Do We Go From Here
Chaos or Community
By Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
Cultural Intelligence
Living for God in a Diverse, Pluralistic World
By Darrell L. Bock
Roadmap to Reconciliation 2.0
Moving Communities into Unity, Wholeness, and Justice.
by Brenda Salter McNeil
The Next Evangelicalism
Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity
By Soong Chan Rah
Prophetic Lament
A Call for Justice in Troubled Times
By Soong Chan Rah
Insider Outsider
My Journey as a Stranger in White Evangelicalism and My Hope for Us All
By Brian Loritts
Santa Biblia
The Bible Through Hispanic Eyes
By Justo L. Gonzalez
Why Are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria
By Beverly Daniel Tatum
White Awake
An Honest Look at What It Means to be White
By Daniel Hill
Just Mercy
By Bryan Stevenson
Divided By Faith
By Michael Emerson & Christian Smith
Race & Place
How Urban Geography Shapes the Journey to Reconciliation
By David Leong
The Cross and the Lynching Tree
By James H. Cone
Letters to a Birmingham Jail
Edited By Bryan Loritts
The Next Worship
Glorifying God in a Diverse World
by Sandra Marie Van Opstal
Faith Rooted Organization
Mobilizing the Church in Service to the World
By Rev. Alexia Salvatierra
The Warmth of Other Suns
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
By Isabel Wilkerson
Around the Web
- Seeing whiteness: Exercises in understanding race by Reggie Williams
- The Privilege Walk: this activity is eye-opening and is best for diverse groups.
- Facing Racism in a Diverse Nation: "A six-session discussion guide to help all kinds of people take part in meaningful dialogue to examine gaps among racial and ethnic groups and create institutional and policy change." Available in English and Spanish.
- Engagement Games/Activities: low, medium, and high risk games/activities to engage your church in race conversations; these games/activities can serve as a follow-up to viewing the film What’s Race Got to Do with It?
- Action Steps suggested action steps for youth, students, faculty, staff, administrators, etc.
- RACE: Are We So Different? Educational Exhibit :: A Project of the American Anthropological Association
- TEACHING TOLERANCE :: A PROJECT OF THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER
- EdChange :: awareness activities; diversity awareness quizzes; handouts; social justice songs and quotes
Check Out These Video Resources:
Stories are great ways to share perspective. We've found these movies can be helpful in opening conversation with someone not like you.
Movies
- Get Out
- Zootopia
- The Help
- Roots
- Remember the Titans
- Glory Road
- Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
- Selma
- Hidden Figures
- In the Heat of the Night
- Crash
- School Ties
- I Am Not Your Negro
- 13th
- American History X
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
- A Raisin in the Sun
- To Kill A Mockingbird
- 42
- This is England
- Bamboozled
- Gran Turino
- Same Kind of Different as Me
- Malcolm X
Documentaries
- The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This is Our Song (PBS 2 Part Series.)
- The Trail of Tears (PBS Documentary)
- The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross- Amazon Prime/PBS (6 episode series)
- The Chinese Exclusion Act- Amazon Prime/PBS
- The Color of Fear, Lee Mun Wah (1994, 90 minutes)
- Race - The Power of an Illusion, California Newsreel
(2003, three 56 minute episodes) - What's Race Got to Do with It?, California Newsreel (2006, 49 minutes)
- Skin Deep, Frances Reid (1995, 53 minutes)
- Them and Us: prejudice and self-understanding, Learning Seed (2007, 23 minutes)
- How biased are you?, Discovery Channel (2004 & 2001, 45 minutes)
- Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North, Katrina
More Videos
- The danger of a single story, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (TED Talk)
- How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them, Vernฤ Myers (TED, filmed Nov 2014)
- Question Bridge “Question Bridge is an innovative transmedia project that facilitates a dialogue between a critical mass of black men from diverse and contending backgrounds and creates a platform for them to represent and redefine black male identity in America.”
