Kaleidoscope Institute http://www.ladiocese.org/ki/ KI has provided a number of “A New Heaven and a New Earth” cultural competency workshops in Washington, Idaho, and Montana and has trained nearly a dozen leaders from Washington to carry on the excellent work. Their website and newsletters provide insightful articles and resources.

Goodman, Moses, and Jones RACE: Are We So Different? http://understandingrace.org/home.html A most excellent overview of the history of race, racism, human variation, and lived experience. Exceptional presentation of race and racism. Based on the award winning exhibit by the American Anthropological Association.

Lutheran Human Relations Association http://www.lhra.org/ A uniquely Lutheran organization which provides training and resources for anti-racism training and better understanding of white privilege.

Southern Poverty Law Center http://www.splcenter.org/ A premier anti-racism organization in Alabama which pursues hate groups into court and provides a number of excellent resources for schools and institutions. Their two newsletters “Intelligence Report” and “Teaching Tolerance” are worth examining. Their publication “Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide” is widely used. Our DVD’s “In the Shadow of Hate” and “A Place at the Table” are SPLC.

Crossroads http://crossroadsantiracism.org/ This organization, based in Chicago, provided our first dismantling racism workshops here in the Greater Wenatchee Valley some 12 years ago. Joseph Barndt, their founder, wrote Understanding & Dismantling Racism: The Twenty-first Century Challenge to White America. Fortress Press, 2007. It is an excellent overview on the issue of racism and how to confront it in our communities.

ELCA Social Statements and Messages. www.ELCA.org These are some of the best resources set in an ethical and biblical context. There are many and they address such relevant issues as Racism, Peace, Violence, Environment, Health Care, Poverty, Immigration, etc.

Just Neighbors www.familypromise.org An excellent 9 session engaging and hands on curriculum that helps congregations to better understand the dynamics and issues surrounding economic and racial justice. Great for raising awareness and stimulating discussion and action. Tel: 908.273.1100, Frank McCann

McIntosh, Peggy http://www.case.edu/president/aaction/UnpackingTheKnapsack.pdf Our discussion of white privilege used materials from this author’s excellent article entitled “Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.”

Smith, David http://www.realhumannature.com Dr. Smith’s unique book Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others is a concise and impressive thorough survey of the historic issue of dehumanization and its consequences. St. Martin’s Press, 2011.

Tiffany, Jim http://www.uncomfortableneighbors.com/Welcome.html Uncomfortable Neighbors: Cultural Collisions between Mexicans and Americans 2003 A wonderful book written in English and Spanish that gives a number interesting and insightful illustrations of choques culturales (cultural collisions). He and Rosemary his wife also provide day long seminars on his book.

Holocaust Center for Humanity: https://www.holocaustcenterseattle.org Their mission statement is “...to inspire teaching and learning for humanity in the schools and communities of this region through study of the Holocaust.” Located in Seattle. Great resources! 206.774.2201.