Christianity, Race, and Justice
A resource list for Such A Time as This
The purpose of this list is to improve our listening skills. As you explore, some of these sources will evoke some “AMENs” and others some “NO WAYs”! The goal is not alignment, but deeper understanding. This resource list would be best explored in conversations with dialogue partners who are different from you–perhaps in ethnicity, age, education, vocation, gender, etc. Consider a community group context! Finally, this list is woefully inadequate and uneven in myriad ways, though one goal was to highlight authors of color. Please think of it as a short list for points of entry into conversation.
Finally, if you make use of only one resource on this page, my hope is that it is this one:
Moving Forward by Russ Whitfield
Table of Contents
Articles
- “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer, Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
- “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
- ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas, NYTMag (Jun 22, 2011)
- ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh
- American Racism: We’ve Got So Very Far To Go by David French*
*great resource for political conservatives
Film & TV
- Just Mercy by Destin Daniel Cretton, Available to rent for free in June in the U.S.
- 13th by Ava DuVernay, Netflix – also available on YouTube
- Blindspotting by Carlos López Estrada, Hulu with Cinemax, HBO or available to rent
- King In The Wilderness by Peter Kunhardt, HBO
- Selma by Ava DuVernay – YouTube, Google Play, Amazon Prime, iTunes
Issues
(Mass Incarceration, Great Migration, Death Penalty, Redlining)
- Just Mercy by Destin Daniel Cretton, Available to rent for free in June in the U.S.
- 13th by Ava DuVernay, Netflix – also available on YouTube
- Blindspotting by Carlos López Estrada, Hulu with Cinemax, HBO or available to rent
- King In The Wilderness by Peter Kunhardt, HBO
- Selma by Ava DuVernay – YouTube, Google Play, Amazon Prime, iTunes
Academic
- When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
- How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
Classic
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Counter Cultural"
Perhaps a “Counter Cultural” Perspective from Politically-Conservative Persons of Color
- Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell
- White Guilt by Shelby Steele
- Race and Economics by Walter Williams
- The Dangers of Condemning All Police by Bob Woodson
Resources for Asians and Asian-Americans
- The Next Evangelicalism by Soong-Chan Rah
- At Home in Exile by Russell Jeung
- Asian Pacific American Christianity in a Post-Ethnic Future by Tim Tseng
- Inheritance Magazine
- Asian American Christian Collaborative
Children's Books by Authors of Color
(To be read by children of all ethnicities)
- African American Childrens’ Books (Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners)
- Asian American Childrens’ Books
- Latinx Childrens’ Books