Racial Justice Recommended Reading

Below is a list of readings recommended by the Faith in Action Committee and the Racial Justice Book Group.

  • Black Pioneers in a White Denomination, Mark D. Morrison-Reed
  • Dismantling Racism, The Continuing Challenge to White America, Joseph Barndt
  • Soul Work, Anti-Racist Theologies in Dialogue, edited by Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley and Nancy Palmer-Jones
  • Uprooting Racism, How White People Can Work For Racial Justice, Paul Kivel
  • The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays, Fusion Politics, and the Rise of a New Justice Movement, Rev. Dr. William Barber II and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
  • Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson
  • Uprooting Racism, Paul Kivel
  • Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, by Kevin Bales
  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander