Resources to Listen, to Learn, and to Love – Compiled June 2020

Bestsellers and General Reading

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
recommended by Jerome Sellars

White Fragility
by Robin DiAngelo

What does it mean to be White? Developing White Racial Literacy
by Robin DiAngelo

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
recommended by Pastor Susan

Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People
by Mahzarin R. Banaji

Between the World and Me
by Ta Nehisi Coates

Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
By Beverly Daniel Tatum PhD

How to be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi

My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma & the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts & Bodies
by Resmaa Menakem

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
by Layla F. Saad

There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in America
by Alex Kotlowitz

The Hate U Give (fiction)
by Angie Thomas

Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing our stories of Race, Culture and Identity
by Winona Gau and Priya Vulchi
(Ted Talk by authors)
The book includes a story from John Bermel, Carleton’s Director of Security.
recommended by Marty Baylor Reed

Racist America:Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations
by Joe R. Faegin
recommended by Marty Baylor Reed

Recommendations from Marty Baylor Reed and the Ford Fellows Foundation

How to Be Less Stupid About Race
by Crystal Fleming

The Auntie Way
by Michelle M. Jacob
https://auntieway.com

Theology/Church/Spiritual Formation

White Awake: An Honest Look at what it means to be white
by Daniel Hill
recommended by Pastor Susan

I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
by Austin Channing Brown

Anxious to Talk About It: Helping White Christians Talk Faithfully about Racism
by Carolyn B. Helsel author
recommended by Pastor Abe

Parable of the Brown Girl: The Sacred Lives of Girls of Color
By Khristi Lauren Adams

Dear Church: A love letter from a Black preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US
by Lenny Duncan
recommended by Pastor Susan

The Cross and the Lynching Tree
by James H. Cone

Said I Wasn’t Gonna Tell Nobody
by James H. Cone

Jesus and the Disinherited
by Howard Thurman

Be The Bridge
by Latasha Morrison

America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
by Jim Wallis

Healing Our Broken Humanity: Practices for Revitalizing the Church and Renewing the World
by Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Graham Will

Hermanas: Deepening our Identity and Growing our Influence
by Kristy Garza Robinson