Reading and Resources

• Abu-Jamal, Mumia.  Have Black Lives ever mattered?  San Francisco : City Lights Books, 2017
• Alexander, Michelle.  The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness.  New York : New Press, 2012
• Anzaldua, Gloria.  Borderlands/La Frontera.  2nd ed.  San Francisco : Aunt Lute Books, 1999
• Blight, David.  Race and reunion : the Civil War in American memory.  Harvard University Press, 2001
• Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo.  Racism without racists : color-blind racism and the persistence of racial inequality in America. 4^th ed.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2014
• Brown, Dee.  Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.  Picador, 2007
• Carter, J. Kameron. Race : a theological account.  New York : Oxford University Press, 2008
• Chin, Elizabeth. Purchasing power : Black kids and America consumer culture.  University of Minnesota Press, 2001
• Christology and Whiteness : What would Jesus do?  Edited by George Yancy.   Routledge, 2012
• Cone, James.  The Cross and the lynching tree.  Orbis Books, 2011
• Copeland, M. Shawn. Enfleshing freedom: body, race and being.  Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 2010
• DiAngelo, Robin J.  White fragility.  Beacon Press, 2018
• Douglas, Kelly Brown. Stand your ground : black bodies and the justice of God.  Orbis Books, 2015
• Douglas, Kelly Brown. What’s faith got to do with it?: Black bodies/Christian souls.   Orbis Books, 2005
• Fletcher, Jeannine Hill. The sin of white supremacy : Christianity, racism, and religious diversity in America.  Orbis Books, 2017
• Fluker, Walter Earl. The ground has shifted : the future of the Black Church in post-racial America.  New York University Press, 2016
• Harvey, Jennifer.  Dear White Christians : for those still longing for racial reconciliation.   Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2014
• Horsford, Sonya Douglass.  Learning in a burning house : educational inequality, ideology, and (dis)integration.  New York : Teachers College Press, 2011
• Jennings, William James.  The Christian imagination and the origins of race.  Yale University Press, 2010
• Jones, Robert P.  The End of White Christian America.
• Lewis, Harold T.  Yet with a steady beat : the African American struggle for recognition in the Episcopal Church.  Trinity Press International, 1996
• Moore, Natalie Y.  The South Side.  St Martin’s Press, 2016
• Newcomb, Steven T.  Pagans in the promised land : decoding the Doctrine of Discovery. Golden, CO : Fulcrum Publishing, 2008
• Parkinson, James W.  White theology : outing supremacy in modernity.  New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
• Policing the Planet : why the policing crisis led to Black Lives Matter / edited by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton. New York : Verso, 2016
• Powell, John A. Racing to justice : transforming our conceptions of self and other to build an inclusive society.  Indiana University Press, 2012
• Rah, Soon-Chan. The next evangelicalism : freeing the church from Western cultural captivity. IVP, 2015
• Rah, Soon-Chan. Prophetic Lament:  A call for justice in troubled times.
• Ransby, Barbara.  Making All Black Lives Matter : reimagining freedom in the twenty-first century.  University of California Press, 2018.
• Rios, Victor. Punished : policing the lives of Black and Latino boys.  New York University Press, 2011
• Rothstein, Richard.  The color of law : a forgotten history of how our government segregated America. New York : Liveright Publishing Company, 2017
• The Scandal of White complicity in US hyper-incarceration : a nonviolent spirituality of White resistance / Alex Mikulich, Laurie Cassidy, and Margaret Pfeil.  Foreword by Sister Helen Prejean. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
• Shattuck, Gardiner H.  Episcopalians and race : civil war to civil rights. University Press of Kentucky, 2000.
• Wacquant, Loic J. D.  Urban outcasts : a comparative sociology of advanced marginality.  Cambridge, MA : Polity, 2008

Articles

• Coates, Ta-Nehisi.  “The Case for Reparations.”  (The Atlantic, May 21, 2014)

Online Resources

• A Letter to the Church on Breaking Free of White Supremacy— By Kelly Brown Douglas, Stephanie Spellers and Winnie Varghese
• Racial Justice from the Equal Justice Initiative
• Resources from the Episcopal Church
• Talking about Race from the National Museum of African American History & Culture