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Racial Justice Recommended Reading List
The Racial Justice Task Force met in December (2021) and among other things wanted to gather a list of books to recommend for furthering our education on racism. We encourage units to consider these titles for book studies, or recommend them to your congregation. The Task Force would like to facilitate linking units together to do a book study.
Here are your responses and recommendations to each other listed in alphabetical order:
A Most Beautiful Thing by Arshay Cooper
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Black & White Disrupting Racism One Friendship at a Time by Teesha Hadra and John Hambrick
The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person by Frederick Joseph
Caste: The Origin of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone
The Faith Club by Ranya Idilby, Suzanne Oliver and Priscilla Warner
How The Word Is Passed by Clint Smith
I Bring the Voices of my People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation by Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes
I’m Black, I’m Christian, I’m Methodist by Lillian C. Smith
The Inner Work of Racial Justice by Rhonda V. Magee
Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad
My Name Is Not Easy by Debby Dahl Edwardson
On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength by Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho (he also did a video series on YouTube)
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
We Will Not Cancel Us by Adrienne Brown
White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Womanist Midrash by Gafne C. Wilda
Books in blue have been discussed in the Zoom Book Study
There were two (2) movies recommended:
“The Chinese Exclusion Act” PBS American Experience (can buy the DVD from PBS) or there are short segments on YouTube
https://www.pbs.org/video/the-chinese-exclusion-act-eixnlw/
“White Savior: Racism in the American Church” You can purchase DVD through Amazon or get it for free through Prime
Holli, Megume, Nancy and Sandra
Racial Justice Taskforce last updated 4 October 2022
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