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Books about racism


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These books are not listed in a particular order, nor is this an exhaustive list of books on the subject of racism.  It is a starting point as we grow in living together as God’s people, loving one another, and working for justice and peace in all the world, starting right in our own neighborhoods.

  • White Fragility: Why it’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, by Robin J. DiAngelo and Michael Eric Dyson. 2018
  • Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, by Ibram X. Kendi. 2017
  • Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning, by Jason Reynolds and Ibram Kendi. 2020
  • So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo. 2019
  • How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram Kendi. 2019
  • Waking Up White: and Finding Myself in the Story of Race, 2014.
  • Biased:  Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do, by Jennifer Eberhardt. 2019
  • Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson. 2015
  • Raising White Kids, by Jennifer Harvey. 2019
  • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond. 2017
  • The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein. 2018
  • Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. 2015
  • Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US, by Lenny Duncan. 2019
  • Be the Bridge: Pursuing God’s Heart for Racial Reconciliation, by Latasha Morrison. 2019
  • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum. 2017
  • America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America, by Jim Wallis. 2016
  • Race Matters, by Cornell West. 2017
 
Talking to white kids about what whiteness means
The books are suggested by “The Christian Century” to help start the conversation.
  • Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story about Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard.
  • Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham
  • New Kid by Jerry Craft
 
 


Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
A congregation of the Southeastern Iowa Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)
517 SW Des Moines St.
Ankeny, IA 50023
Phone: 515-964-4348
Office hours: M-Th 9:00 am-3:00 pm

Worship Schedule:
Sundays at 8:30 and 10:00 am
Wednesdays at 6:00 pm 
Livestream on Sundays at 10:00 am on YouTube

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