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Race and Justice Resources

Race & Justice Resources

Book Recommendations

**Copies of these books may be available for check out at the Immanuel Church Library 

Faith Based:

  • Trouble I’ve Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism - Drew G. I. Hart
  • Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America - Michael Eric Dyson
  • The Color of Compromise - Jemar Tisby
  • Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation - Latasha Morrison
  • The Third Option: Hope for A Racially Divided Nation - Miles McPherson
  • Reading While Black - Esau McCauley
  • Bread for the Resistance: 40 Devotions for Justice People - Donna Barber

ELCA Resources:

  • Government and Civic Engagement in the United States:  Discipleship in a Democracy  June, 2020 

Biographies, Non-fiction, novels, and personal narratives:

  • I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World made for Whiteness - Austin Channing Brown
  • The Warmth of Other Sons - Isabel Wilkerson
  • The Fire Next time - James Baldwin
  • Malcolm X - Alex Haley
  • Killing Rage Ending Racism - Bell Hooks
  • Becoming - Michelle Obama
  • An American By Marriage - Tayari Jones
  • **A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota -
  • The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother - James McBride
  • **Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption - Bryan Stevenson
  • The Myth Of Race - Robert Sussman
  • The Other Wes Moore - Wes Moore 
  • The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother - James McBride
  • Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
  • **Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • **Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race - Debby Irving
  • Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
  • My Beloved World – Sonia Sotomayor
  • I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
  • The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
  • Hidden Figures The American Dream and the Untold Story of The Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win The Space Race – Margot Lee Shetterly 
  • **The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
  • The Short & Tragic Life of Robert Peace – Jeff Hobbs

Topic Specific Books to help understand Racism:

  • Evicted - Matthew Desmond
  • Nobody - Marc Lamont Hill
  • Lies My Teacher Told Me - James W Loewen
  • Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria - Berver Doniel Tatum, PhD
  • The Color of Law - Richard Rothstein
  • Blackballed - Darryl Pinkney
  • **Dear Church - Rev Lenny Duncan

If you are just starting to learn about Racial Justice:

  • **Uncomfortable Conversations with A Black Man - Emmanuel Acho
  • Stamped from the Beginning - Ibram X Kendi
  • A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn (There is a "young people's" version for elementary and middle school readers)
  • **White Fragility - Robin Diangelo
  • So you want to talk about race - Ijeoma Oluo
  • I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness - Austin Channing Brown
  • Me and White Supremacy - Layla F Saad
  • Stamped - Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
  • March: Books One, Two and Three –  John Lewis (Graphic novel series accessible for middle school through adult)  
  • Citizen An American Lyric – Claudia Rankine

If you have done some learning about Racial Justice and are ready to dig a bit deeper:

  • The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America - Anders Walker
  • The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
  • The Condemnation of Blackness - Khalil Gibran Muhammad
  • Dying of Whiteness - Jonathan Metzl
  • A Different Mirror - Ronald Takaki
  • How to be an AntiRacist - Ibram X Kendi
  • How the South Won the Civil War - Heather Cox Richardson
  • **White Rage The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide - Carol Anderson

 

Immigration Themes: 

  • After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America - Jessica Goudreau
  • One Mighty and Irresistible Tide - Jia Lynn Yang 
  • The God Who Sees: Immigrants, The Bible and the Journey to Belong - Karen Gonzalez
  • The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move - Sonia Shah

 

Movies 

  • Crash
  • 13th
  • Loving
  • Malcolm X
  • Selma
  • American History X (very graphic film)
  • Do the Right Thing
  • Gran Torino
  • Fruitvale Station
  • Hidden Figures 
  • When they see us
  • Emanuel
  • Dakota 38
  • The Hate u Give
  • Just Mercy
  • LA 92
  • American son
  • The rape of Recy Taylor
  • Divided states
  • Baltimore rising
  • Say her name: the life and death of Sandra Bland
  • Mud blood
  • Miss Virginia
  • Kalief Browder story



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