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Websites & Articles
SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice)
National network that organizes white communities to join fights for racial and economic justice.
White Supremacy Culture
Building a Race Equity Culture
Summary of Anti-Racism Resources
Stages of Racial Identity Development (PDF)
Harvard’s Project Implicit
White Christian Nationalism: The Deep Story Behind the Capitol Insurrection
A Preacher’s Toolkit for Confronting Christian Nationalism
Videos
PBS Origins: The Origin of Race in the USA
Facing History & Ourselves: Race: The Power of an Illusion (The Story We Tell)
Holy Post: Race in America
act.tv: Systemic Racism Explained
David Jones Media: How We Can Win
TedX Talks: Immaculate perception: Jerry Kang at TEDxSanDiego 2013
Anti-Racism Resources: fitchburgstate
Podcasts
NPR Podcasts (Code Switch)
WPLN News (The Promise)
Books & Guides
The Thoughtful Christian
- thethoughtfulchristian.com
- Leader’s Guide: White Privilege (PDF)
- The Bible and Racism (PDF)
- Why Is It So Difficult to Talk about Racism? (PDF)
Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith by Obery M. Hendricks Jr
American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church by Andrew L. Whitehead
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad
Be the Bridge: Pursuing God’s Heart for Racial Reconciliation by Latasha Morrison
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Dear White Peacemakers by Osheta Moore
White Fragility (PDF) by Robin DiAngelo
Thinking Fast & Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Anthony Greenwald and Mahzarin Banaji
The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias by Dolly Chugh
Flipping the Script: White Privilege and Community Building
- Ch. 5 – What is Internalized Racism by Donna K. Bivens