Books on Race, Racism, Racial Justice, from a Christian Perspective
The first list are books that Faithlife already carries. The following list are books from publishers Faithlife already does lots of business with that should be easy to add as Faithlife Ebooks (with a few exceptions from other publishers: Mark Noll whom Faithlife already has several books by, and Martin Luther King Jr. simply because of his importance, and a couple of other really notable books) and would complement the existing collection.
* marks books of particular note
1. Books that Faithlife already carries:
Advocates: The Narrow Path to Racial Reconciliation (Dhati Lewis, B&H Books)
* America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America (Jim Wallis, Brazos Press)
Becoming a Just Church: Cultivating Communities of God's Shalom (Adam L. Gustine, IVP)
Beyond Racial Gridlock: Embracing Mutual Responsibility (George Yancey, IVP)
Bloodlines (John Piper, Crossway)
A Body Broken, A Body Betrayed: Race, Memory, and Eucharist in White-Dominant Churches (Mary McClintock Fulkerson & Marcia W. Mount Shoop, Cascade/Wipf & Stock)
Burying White Privilege: Resurrecting a Badass Christianity (Miguel A. De La Torre, Eerdmans)
* Dream with Me: Race, Love, and the Struggle We Must Win (John M. Perkins, Baker Books)
Holding Up Your Corner: Talking about Race in Your Community (F. Willis Johnson, Abingdon Press)
* Let Justice Roll Down (John M. Perkins, Baker Books)
* Many Colors: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church (Soong-Chan Rah, Moody)
The Next Worship: Glorifying God in a Diverse World (Sandra Maria Van Opstal, IVP)
* One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love (John M. Perkins, Moody)
Oneness Embraced: Reconciliation, the Kingdom, and How We are Stronger Together (Tony Evans, Moody)
Race and Theology (Horizons in Theology) (Elaine A. Robinson, Abingdon Press)
Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope (Esau McCaulley, IVP, forthcoming Sept 2020)
Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation (Cain Hope Felder, Fortress Press)
A Theology of Race and Place: Liberation and Reconciliation in the Works of Jennings and Carter (Andrew Thomas Draper, Pickwick Publications)
* Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism (Drew G. I. Hart, Herald Press)
Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race (Benjamin Watson, Tyndale)
We Have Been Believers: An African American Systematic Theology (James H. Evans, Jr., Fortress Press)
White Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White (Daniel Hill, IVP)
Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice (Eric Mason, Moody Publishers)
Recommended Books:
All the Colors We Will See: Reflections on Barriers, Brokenness, and Finding Our Way (Patrice Gopo, Thomas Nelson, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077CTZGR1)
* America's Unholy Ghosts (Joel Edward Goza, Cascade/Wipf & Stock, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RDMQ93H)
* Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation (Latasha Morrison, WaterBrook, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PKL69F8)
Beyond Colorblind: Redeeming Our Ethnic Journey (Sarah Shin, IVP, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076BV491H)
Beyond Hashtag Activism: Comprehensive Justice in a Complicated Age (Mae Elise Cannon, IVP, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZG6WLBM)
Black Theology & Black Power (James H. Cone, Orbis, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07N93KPDJ)
Can "White" People Be Saved?: Triangulating Race, Theology, and Mission (edited by Love L. Sechrest, Johnny Ramirez Johnson, and Amos Yong, IVP, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JG41NK4)
* The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race (Willie James Jennings, Yale U Press, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0038LB480)
* The Color of Compromise (Jemar Tisby, Zondervan, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BB6R827)
* The Cross and the Lynching Tree (James H. Cone, Orbis, https://www.amazon.com/dp/1626980055)
Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US (Lenny Duncan, Fortress Press, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NSFXF3F)
Dear White Christians: For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation (Jennifer Harvey, Eerdmans, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B089LXMDCX)
The Death of Race: Building a New Christianity in a Racial World (Brian Bantum, Fortress Press, https://www.amazon.com/dp/1506408885)
Decolonizing Evangelicalism: An 11:59 p.m. Conversation (Randy S. Woodley & Bo C. Sanders, Cascade/Wipf & Stock, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086DLGKXH)
* Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America (Michael O. Emerson & Christian Smith, Oxford U Press, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000SHYQZU)
Do All Lives Matter?: The Issues We Can No Longer Ignore and the Solutions We All Long For (Wayne Gordon & John M. Perkins, Baker Books, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N5HHC60)
The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings (Martin Luther King Jr., Beacon Press, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DK6ZG32)
Free at Last?: The Gospel in the African American Experience (Carl F. Ellis Jr., IVP, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZG6WYPS)
* God and Race in American Politics (Mark Noll, Princeton U Press, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003E7FIDU)
The Gospel in Black & White: Theological Resources for Racial Reconciliation (Dennis L. Ockholm, IVP, https://www.amazon.com/dp/0830818871)
Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience (Sheila Wise Rowe, IVP, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07V2P9B8Y)
The Heart of Racial Justice: How Soul Change Leads to Social Change (Brenda Salter McNeil, IVP, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001HL0E1Q)
How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice (Jemar Tisby, Zondervan, forthcoming Jan 2021, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085XNNNJP)
* I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Austin Channing Brown, Convergent Books, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07466JDSH)
* Insider Outsider: My Journey as a Stranger in White Evangelicalism and My Hope for Us All (Bryan C. Loritts, Zondervan, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FL9WMYM)
Is Christianity the White Man's Religion?: How the Bible Is Good News for People of Color (Antipas L. Harris, IVP, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZG7D45R)
Jesus and the Disinherited (Howard Thurman, Beacon Press, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005K98IU0)
Might from the Margins: The Gospel's Power to Turn the Tables on Injustice (Dennis R. Edwards, Herald Press, forthcoming Sept 2020, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085PZVS7D)
The Myth of Equality: Uncovering the Roots of Injustice and Privilege (Ken Wytsma, IVP, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07YL98ZH9)
Plantation Jesus: Race, Faith, and a New Way Forward (Skot Welch & Rick Wilson, Herald Press, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C1VZS67)
* The Post-Black and Post-White Church: Becoming the Beloved Community in a Multi-Ethnic World (Efrem Smith, Jossey-Bass, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007ZDV7ZM)
* Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times (Soong-Chan Rah, IVP, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015TBK2UC)
Race & Reconciliation: Healing the Wounds, Winning the Harvest (Jack W. Hayford, Thomas Nelson, https://www.amazon.com/dp/0785211314)
* Race and Place: How Urban Geography Shapes the Journey to Reconciliation (David P. Leong, IVP, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N9R82GA)
Race, Racism, and the Biblical Narratives (Cain Hope Felder, Fortress Press, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002G9U45E)
Racial Justice and the Catholic Church (Bryan N. Massingale, Orbis, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MWZZX1W)
Racial Purity and Dangerous Bodies: Moral Pollution, Black Lives, and the Struggle for Justice (Rima L. Vesely-Flad, Fortress Press, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072MKNCJW)
Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America (Jennifer Harvey, Abingdon Press, https://www.amazon.com/dp/1501878077)
Reconciling All Things: A Christian Vision for Justice, Peace and Healing (Emmanuel Katongole & Chris Rice, IVP, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002T44XQC)
* Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion (Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, IVP, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0794FRTWP)
* Rediscipling the White Church: From Cheap Diversity to True Solidarity (David W. Swanson, IVP, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZG795VM)
Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God (Kelly Brown Douglas, Orbis, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00X603Y7C)
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (Martin Luther King Jr., Beacon Press, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009U9S54K)
Troubling Biblical Waters: Race, Class, and Family (Cain Hope Felder, Orbis, https://www.amazon.com/dp/0883445352)
Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery (Mark Charles & Soong-Chan Rah, IVP, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07V7ZXT1R)
Welcoming Justice: God's Movement Toward Beloved Community (Charles Marsh & John M. Perkins, IVP, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J21LBKQ)
What's Faith Got to Do with It? Black Bodies / Christian Souls: Black Bodies, Christian Souls (Kelly Brown Douglas, Orbis, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HP176HH)
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (Martin Luther King Jr., Beacon Press, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009U9S6EO)
White Lies: Nine Ways to Expose and Resist the Racial Systems That Divide Us (Daniel Hill, Zondervan, forthcoming Oct 2020, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085XNV51B)
Who Will Be A Witness: Igniting Activism for God's Justice, Love, and Deliverance (Drew G. I. Hart, Herald Press, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085Q44RRZ)
Why We Can't Wait (Martin Luther King Jr., Beacon Press, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004FEG3BM)
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You might find this thread of use too:
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Thanks Rosie
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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Thanks, Rosie!
DAL
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Well, now, that's a long reading list, Rosie. Thank you for the suggestions and all the work it took to produce it.
I know Reading Lists don't seem to gather much interest these days, but perhaps creating one would make sure this list doesn't get totally buried over time.
Pastor, North Park Baptist Church
Bridgeport, CT USA
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Very helpful, Rosie. Thanks
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Thanks for the great list, Rosie!
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David Wanat said:
You might find this thread of use too:
Yes, I knew about that thread and had already posted on it when I posted this post (which is a superset of what I posted over there).
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Mark Smith said:
I know Reading Lists don't seem to gather much interest these days, but perhaps creating one would make sure this list doesn't get totally buried over time.
Good suggestion. I'll try to find the time, but I doubt I will be able to. Just in case I do, what would be a proper Topic name for this list? I'd want people to be able to find it if they searched for "Race", "Racism", or "Racial Justice". Can I name it "Race, Racism, Racial Justice"? It's been a long time since I've thought about Reading lists. I've noticed that the most recent ones created have a line like this:
{{?set lcv_id::%holinessOfGod}}
Should I ignore lcv_id? It appears that Logos has some topics and themes connected to this, but no reading lists yet. I'm rusty and cannot remember if LCV includes both topics and preaching themes.
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Popping Rosie's thread back up. And the other one:
https://community.logos.com/forums/t/147606.aspx?ssi=0
I've never quite figured out this subject as regards 'church'. I know it happens, and don't know the solution (as regards 'church').
The volume below, came out about a month ago:
https://www.amazon.com/White-Too-Long-Supremacy-Christianity-ebook/dp/B07Z44Z3QD
I doubt it'd do too well on FL sites ... it gets pretty specific, beginning with a large protestant denomination, and then other mainline denominations. It's hard reading (for me) because it's almost a duplicate of my church-life in the South. Complete with a Bible college with only black students from Africa (and to return ... preachers) . Zero African Americans, until needed for the basketball team.
He does identify 4 theological units that explain the pattern. Being analytical, I go back to 'the writings' to see what happened. Sigh.
Recommended, if you have a thick-skin.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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