Race and Justice Resources
Race & Justice Resources
Book Recommendations
**Copies of these books may be available for check out at the Immanuel Church Library
Faith Based:
- Trouble I’ve Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism - Drew G. I. Hart
- Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America - Michael Eric Dyson
- The Color of Compromise - Jemar Tisby
- Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation - Latasha Morrison
- The Third Option: Hope for A Racially Divided Nation - Miles McPherson
- Reading While Black - Esau McCauley
- Bread for the Resistance: 40 Devotions for Justice People - Donna Barber
ELCA Resources:
- Government and Civic Engagement in the United States: Discipleship in a Democracy June, 2020
Biographies, Non-fiction, novels, and personal narratives:
- I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World made for Whiteness - Austin Channing Brown
- The Warmth of Other Sons - Isabel Wilkerson
- The Fire Next time - James Baldwin
- Malcolm X - Alex Haley
- Killing Rage Ending Racism - Bell Hooks
- Becoming - Michelle Obama
- An American By Marriage - Tayari Jones
- **A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota -
- The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother - James McBride
- **Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption - Bryan Stevenson
- The Myth Of Race - Robert Sussman
- The Other Wes Moore - Wes Moore
- The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother - James McBride
- Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
- **Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
- **Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race - Debby Irving
- Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
- My Beloved World – Sonia Sotomayor
- I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
- The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
- Hidden Figures The American Dream and the Untold Story of The Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win The Space Race – Margot Lee Shetterly
- **The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
- The Short & Tragic Life of Robert Peace – Jeff Hobbs
Topic Specific Books to help understand Racism:
- Evicted - Matthew Desmond
- Nobody - Marc Lamont Hill
- Lies My Teacher Told Me - James W Loewen
- Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria - Berver Doniel Tatum, PhD
- The Color of Law - Richard Rothstein
- Blackballed - Darryl Pinkney
- **Dear Church - Rev Lenny Duncan
If you are just starting to learn about Racial Justice:
- **Uncomfortable Conversations with A Black Man - Emmanuel Acho
- Stamped from the Beginning - Ibram X Kendi
- A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn (There is a "young people's" version for elementary and middle school readers)
- **White Fragility - Robin Diangelo
- So you want to talk about race - Ijeoma Oluo
- I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness - Austin Channing Brown
- Me and White Supremacy - Layla F Saad
- Stamped - Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
- March: Books One, Two and Three – John Lewis (Graphic novel series accessible for middle school through adult)
- Citizen An American Lyric – Claudia Rankine
If you have done some learning about Racial Justice and are ready to dig a bit deeper:
- The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America - Anders Walker
- The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
- The Condemnation of Blackness - Khalil Gibran Muhammad
- Dying of Whiteness - Jonathan Metzl
- A Different Mirror - Ronald Takaki
- How to be an AntiRacist - Ibram X Kendi
- How the South Won the Civil War - Heather Cox Richardson
- **White Rage The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide - Carol Anderson
Immigration Themes:
- After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America - Jessica Goudreau
- One Mighty and Irresistible Tide - Jia Lynn Yang
- The God Who Sees: Immigrants, The Bible and the Journey to Belong - Karen Gonzalez
- The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move - Sonia Shah
Movies
- Crash
- 13th
- Loving
- Malcolm X
- Selma
- American History X (very graphic film)
- Do the Right Thing
- Gran Torino
- Fruitvale Station
- Hidden Figures
- When they see us
- Emanuel
- Dakota 38
- The Hate u Give
- Just Mercy
- LA 92
- American son
- The rape of Recy Taylor
- Divided states
- Baltimore rising
- Say her name: the life and death of Sandra Bland
- Mud blood
- Miss Virginia
- Kalief Browder story