Anti-Racism Resources

Index

Books & Articles
Films, Television Shows, & Other Videos
Podcasts
Websites
Resources for Black Healing
Resources for Allyship and Solidarity
For Caregivers and Educators: Raising Anti-Racist Children

Don't know where to start?

Here are some recommendations that have helped our staff team grow!

God of the Oppressed by James H. Cone
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr.
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Native by Kaitlin B. Curtice
Rediscipling the White Church by David W. Swanson
Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi
The NYT 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
How to be An AntiRacist by Ibram X Kendi
Dear White Christians: For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation by Jennifer Harvey

Multiple Staff Members Mentioned

I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness - Austin Channing Brown
The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone

Staff Recommendations for Families

Commonsensemedia.org has books on racism and social justice listed by age.
Hair Love (short film)
The Conscious Kid / Instagram: @theconsciouskid
Antiracist Baby - Ibram X. Kendi (book)
WNET Education: Anti-Racist Resources: For Families, Educators, and Students
A Kids Book about Racism

Books & Articles

framework adapted from Nate Lee

"Help! I Don't Know Where to Start!"

Beyond Colorblind: Redeeming Our Ethnic Journey - Sarah Shin
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption - Bryan Stevenson
So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row - Raymond Hinton
Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right - Lisa Sharon Harper
 White Awake: An Honest Look at What it Means to Be White - Daniel Hill
White Fragility: Why it's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism - Robin DiAngelo
“White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” - Peggy McIntosh 
"How to Be Anti-Racist: A Social Worker's Perspective" - USC School of Social Work

"I Want to Go Deeper into Issues of Race, Justice, and Faith"

The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church’s Complicity in Racism - Jemar Tisby
How to Be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness - Austin Channing Brown
“Letter from a Birmingham Jail” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander
The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity - Soong-Chan Rah
Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores - Dominique Gilliard
Unsettling Truths: the Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery - Mark Charles

"I'm Ready to be Challenged Practically and/or Theologically in My Engagement with Justice and Race"

The Cross and the Lynching Tree - James Cone
Dear White Christians: For All Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation - Jennifer Harvey
The Death of Race: Building a New Christianity in a Racial World - Brian Bantum
Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence - Kellie Carter Jackson
 Jesus and the Disinherited - Howard Thurman
“Nothing to Add: a Challenge to White Silence in Racial Discussions” - Robin DiAngelo
Rediscipling the White Church - David Swanson

"I’m Starting to See How My Understanding of Faith Has Been Premised on White Supremacy. Is There Another Way?"

The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race - Willie James Jennings
Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being - M Shawn Copeland
God of the Oppressed - James Cone
Making a Way Out of No Way: A Womanist Theology - Monica A. Coleman
Meant for Good: Fundamentals of Womanist Leadership - Debora Jackson
Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys: A Native American Expression of the Jesus Way - Richard Twiss
Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God - Kelly Brown Douglas
Toward Decentering the New Testament: A Reintroduction - Mitzi J. Smith & Yung Suk Kim

Movies, Television Shows, & Other Videos

13th - Ava DuVernay (available on Netflix)
3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets
Bill Moyers Journal: Interview with James H. Cone
Dear White People - Justin Simien (available on Netflix)
I Am Not Your Negro - James Baldwin (available to rent)
Just Mercy - Destin Daniel Cretton (available to rent for free in June 2020 in the U.S.)
Race, Faith, and Community - Willie Jennings
Selma - Ava DuVernay (available to rent)
Sermon from Otis Moss III
Slavery by Another Name - PBS preview
True Justice - EJI documentary
When They See Us - Ava DuVernay (available on Netflix)

Podcasts

Websites

Be The Bridge (curriculum) Latasha Morrison
A Long Repentance (blog post series) - Mako Nagasawa
Love Mercy Do Justice - Evangelical Covenant Church
Race and Christian Community Initiative - Emmanuel Gospel Center
Sojourners; see Soong-Chan Rah’s Lament from Lamentations 5
Talking About Race - Smithsonian Institute
The Witness: A Black Christian Collective
Confronting Prejudice: How to Protect Yourself and Help Others - Pepperdine University
150 Black-Owned Businesses

Resources for Black Healing

Mental Health Resources & Tools

7 Virtual Mental Health Resources Supporting Black People Right Now
APA’s Racial Stress Toolkit
Inclusive Therapists - Melody Li
The Nap Ministry - Tricia Hersey
Resources for Black Healing