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