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Books

“With Justice For All”- John Perkins

“Roadmap to Reconciliation”- Brenda Salter McNeil

 “Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery”- Mark Charles

“The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church’s Complicity in Racism” Jemar Tisby

 “Race, God and American Politics”- Mark A. Knoll

 “Exclusion and Embrace”- Miroslav Volf

“White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People to Talk About Race”- Robin DiAngelo

“Reconciling All Things: A Christian Vision of Justice, Peace and Healing”- Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice

“Santa Biblia: The Bible Through Hispanic Eyes”- Justo L. Gonzalez

 “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race”- Beverly Daniel Tatum

“White Awake: An Honest Look at What it Means to Be White” –Daniel Hill

“Just Mercy” Bryan Stevenson

“Divided By Faith”- Michael Emerson and Christian Smith

 “Race and Place: How Urban Geography Shapes the Journey to Reconciliation”- David Leong

“The Cross  and The Lynching Tree”- James H. Cone

“Letters to a Birmingham Jail”- Bryan Loritts

Movies/Media
 

  • Get Out

  • Zootopia

  • The Help

  • Roots

  • Remember the Titans

  • Glory Road

  • Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story

  • Selma

  • Hidden Figures

  • In The Heat of the Night

  • Crash

  • School Ties

  • I Am Not Your Negro

  • 13th

  • American History X

  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

  • A Raisin In The Sun

  • To Kill a Mockingbird

  • 42

  • This is England

  • Bamboozled

  • Grand Torino

  • Same Kind of Different as Me

  • The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross- Amazon Prime/PBS (6 episode series)

  • The Chinese Exclusion Act- Amazon Prime/PBS

  • The Color of Fear, Lee Mun Wah (1994, 90 minutes)

  • Race - The Power of an Illusion, California Newsreel
    (2003, three 56 minute episodes)

  • What's Race Got to Do with It?, California Newsreel (2006, 49 minutes)

  • Skin Deep, Frances Reid (1995, 53 minutes)

  • Them and Us: prejudice and self-understanding, Learning Seed (2007, 23 minutes)

  • How biased are you?, Discovery Channel (2004 & 2001, 45 minutes)

  • Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North, Katrina

  • The danger of a single story, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (TED Talk)

  • How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them, Vernā Myers (TED, filmed Nov 2014)

  • Question Bridge “Question Bridge is an innovative transmedia project that facilitates a dialogue between a critical mass of black men from diverse and contending backgrounds and creates a platform for them to represent and redefine black male identity in America.”

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Internet Resources


Seeing whiteness: Exercises in understanding race by Reggie Williams

 The Privilege Walk: this activity is eye-opening and is best for diverse groups

 Facing Racism in a Diverse Nation: "A six-session discussion guide to help all kinds of people take part in meaningful dialogue to examine gaps among racial and ethnic groups and create institutional and policy change." Available in English and Spanish.

 Engagement Games/Activities: low, medium, and high risk games/activities to engage your church in race conversations; these games/activities can serve as a follow-up to viewing the film What’s Race Got to Do with It?
Action Steps  suggested action steps for youth, students, faculty, staff, administrators, etc.

RACE: Are We So Different? Educational Exhibit :: A Project of the American Anthropological Association

 TEACHING TOLERANCE :: A PROJECT OF THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER

 EdChange :: awareness activities; diversity awareness quizzes; handouts; social justice songs and quotes