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BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

There are a LOT of really good books out there on the subject of race in America.  This is just a sampling.  Click on the title to be taken to an independent bookstore website for purchasing, or look for them on your library's website.


On the history of racism in the US:
  • Racism Without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva.
  •  Unsettling Truths by Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah (Mr. Charles is a native American who is running for president BTW)
  • Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram Kendi
  • How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon by David R. Roediger

On white supremacy and the American Christian Church:
  • Reconstructing the Gospel by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
  • Revolution of Values: Reclaiming Public Faith for the Common Good by the same author
  • The Cross and The Lynching Tree by James Cone
  • The Very Good Gospel by Lisa Sharon Harper
  • Native by Kaitlin Curtice
  • Trouble I’ve Seen:  Changing the Way the Church Views Racism by Dr. Drew G. I. Hart

On Crime, "Justice," and Racism:
  • The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
  • Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
  • Rethinking Incarceration by Dominique DuBois Gilliard

On how to unlearn racism:
  • How to Be An Anti-Racist  by Ibram Kendi
  • Anti-Racist Baby by Ibram Kendi (this is a board book for kids!!)
  • Be the Bridge by Latasha Morrison

Biography/Memoir/Telling the Stories:
  • Between the World and Me by Ta-nehisi Coates
  • I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
  • Beloved by Toni Morrison
  • My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem
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  • CHRISTIANS AND RACIAL JUSTICE
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  • MUSIC and PODCASTS
  • TURNING PAGES: STORY TIME