JIC Reading List

Below are staff picks for personal and communal Journeys to an Inclusive Community. We haven’t listed many community organizing groups, as they’re a bit harder to keep updated. We encourage you to seek out your local chapters of Black Lives Matter, Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), etc.

For an introduction to JIC, visit the main Journey to an Inclusive Community page.

Contents

Articles/Blog Posts
Websites
Podcasts
Films & Documentaries
Books
Poems

Articles/Blog Posts

“Expectations vs. Experience” by Anna Jeide, 2016-17 DC Volunteer
“Flipping the Script: White Privilege and Community Building, Silver Spring, Md., and Conshocken, Pa.”
“White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Peggy McIntosh
“Freed in Christ: Race, Ethnicity and Culture” a Social Statement of the ELCA
“Breaking The Bonds and Troubling the Waters” & other ELCA Racial Justice resources
“What Happens When Your Hood Is the Last Stop on the White Flight Express” by Taigi Smith
“Letter from a Birmingham Jail” by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“White Supremacy Culture” by Tema Okun

Websites

BlackNews.com
Center for the Study of White American Culture, Inc.
Challenging White Supremacy Workshop
ColorLines Magazine
Crossroads Antiracism Organizing & Training
ELCA Racial Justice resources
#decolonizeLutheranism
Indian Country Today
Latino USA
Mennonite Central Committee Anti-opression resources
ELCA Racial Justice resources
The Kaleidoscope Institute
MLK Papers Project, MLK Research & Ed. Institute
National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF)
New America Media
PBS resources on race
Queer Grace: An online encyclopedia for LGBTQ and Christian Life
Race Forward (formerly Applied Research Center)
Racial Equity Tools
Safety Pin Box (website & subscription service)
Showing Up for Racial Justice (link to national org; there are similar state groups as well)
The Kaleidoscope Institute
The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond
YWCA: Eliminating Racism, Empowering Women

Podcasts

2 Dope Queens
AltLatino
Another Round
Code Switch
Ear Hustle
Good Muslim, Bad Muslim
Latino USA
Melanin Millennials
Politically Re-Active
See Something, Say Something
Sooooo Many White Guys
Stuff You Missed in History Class
The Edge of Sports

Films & Documentaries

13th (on Netflix)
A Time for Burning (Quest Productions)
Dead Man Walking
Elling
Happy People
Lars and the Real Girl
Making Whiteness Visible (World Trust-Org)
Moonlight (2017 Academy Award winner)
People Like Us (PBS)
Race: Power of an Illusion (PBS)
Saint Ralph
The Color of Fear (StirFry Seminars)
The Lives of Others
The Quest for Mental Health in a Racist Society (Na’im Akbar Mind Productions & Assoc.)
The Way Home (World Trust)
Traces of the Trade (Katrina Browne)
What’s Color Got to Do With It? (Abiding Savior Lutheran Church)

Books

$2 a day: Living on Almost Nothing in America by Kathryn Edin
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki
Acts of Faith by Eboo Patel
Against All Odds: The Struggle for Racial Integration in Religious Organizations by B.Christerson, K.L. Edwards, and Michael O. Emerson
A Promise and a Way of Life: White Antiracist Activism by Becky Thompson
An Altar in the World by Barbara Brown Taylor
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
Black Voices ed. by Abraham Chapman
Blessed are the Organized by Jeffrey Stout
Citizen by Claudia Rankine
Civil Rights Chronicle ed. by Clayborne Carson
Compassion: A reflection of the Christian Life by Nouwen, McNeill, Morrison
Crossing The Racial Divide a compilation of articles and study guide by Sojourners magazine
Dismantling Racism: The Continuing Challenge to White America by Joseph Barndt
Dreams from my Father by Barack Obama
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind
How Race Is Lived in America by New York Times Reporters
Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
Lifting the White Veil by Jeff Hitchcock
New Theories on Racial Identity Development edited by Charmaine L. Wijeyesinghe and Bailey W. Jackson
Not A Genuine Black Man by Brian Copeland
Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollen
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Peace is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hann
Race Matters by Cornell West
Race Rules by Michael Eric Dyson
Roofwalker by Susan Power
Tattoos on the Heart by Fr. Greg Boyle
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege by Robert Jensen
The Hidden Wound by Wendell Berry
The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
The Promise of Paradox by Parker Palmer
The New Jim Crow by Michele Alexander
The Silent Language by Edward Hall
Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel
Waking Up White by Debby Irving
We Can’t Teach What We Don’t Know: White Teachers, Multiracial Schools by Gary Howard
What Does It Mean to Be White? Developing White Racial Literacy by Robin DiAngelo
White by Law: the Legal Construction of Race by Ian Haney López
White Like Me by Tim Wise
White Men Challenging Racism: 35 Personal Stories ed. by Thompson, Schaefer, and Brod
White Trash: Race and Class in America ed. by Wray and Newitz
“Why Are All of the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D
Wisdom Sits in Places by Keith Basso