Responding to Racism Reading and Resource Guide
ADULTS
Nonfiction
- How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
- Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think and Do by Jennifer Eberhardt
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Race & Faith
- America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege and the Bridge to a New America by Jim Wallis
- The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby
- The Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
- Anxious to Talk About It: Helping White Christians Talk Faithfully About Racism by Carolyn Helsel
- Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart by Christena Cleveland
- Be the Bridge: Pursuing God’s Heart for Racial Reconciliation by Latasha Morrison
Memoir
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
Fiction
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
- Americanah by Chimamanda N’Gozi Adiche
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Articles
- “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
- The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine
- “Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?” by Courtney Martin (June 1, 2020)
- ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh
- “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
Podcasts
- 1619 (New York Times)
- Code Switch (NPR)
- Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
- Seeing White
Videos
- “Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man” https://youtu.be/h8jUA7JBkF4 (YouTube, 9 min)
- How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion, Peggy McIntosh at TEDx Timberlane Schools https://youtu.be/e-BY9UEewHw (YouTube, 18:26 min)
- Let’s get to the root of racial injustice, Megan Ming Francis at TEDx Rainier https://youtu.be/-aCn72iXO9s (YouTube, 19:37 min)
- Why I’m Not Racist only Half the Problem by Robin d’Angelo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzLT54QjclA (7 min)
Documentaries/Movies
- Race: The Power of an Illusion
- 13th
- Just Mercy — Available to rent for free in June in the U.S.
- Selma
- The Hate U Give
PARENTS & FAMILIES
- Raising White Kids: Bringing up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey
- For a variety of other resources visit Forming Faithful Families at https://www.fpcfaithfulfamilies.com/anti-racism-resources
- All the young adult and children’s books listed next
CHILDREN
- Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi (kids and parents of all ages)
- A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara (ages 3-7)
- The Skin I’m in: A First Look at Racism by Pat Thomas (ages 4-8)
- The Skin You Live In by Michael Tyler (ages 4-8)
- Something Happened in Our Town by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, et al. (ages 4-8)
- You Matter by Christian Robinson (ages 4-8)
- Brian the Brave by Paul Stewart (ages 3-12)
- Race Cars: A Children’s Book about White Privilege by Jenny Devenney (ages 3-10)
- Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester (grades 1-5)
- Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham (grades 4-6)
YOUNG ADULT
Fiction
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
- All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
- Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Nonfiction
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynold and Ibram X. Kendi
- This Book Is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell
- All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
Graphic Novel
- Fights: One Boy’s Triumph Over Violence by Joel Christian Gill
Poetry
- Say Her Name by Zetta Elliot