Racial Justice Bibliography | A work of the Racial Justice Collaborative in Theological Education

These are print resources compiled by theological educators for use in a variety of faith community settings. Those of us who are working on this bibliography come from multiple traditions and contexts, so please choose from this list wisely with an eye to your own community’s distinctive perspectives.

Adichie, C. N. (2013). Americanah. Knopf Canada.

Adichie, C. N. (2015). We Should All be Feminists. Anchor Books.

Akintunde, O. (1999). White Racism, White Supremacy, White Privilege, and the Social Construction of Race: Moving from Modernist to Postmodernist Multiculturalism. Multicultural Education, 7(2), 2–8.

Alexander, M. (2010). The new Jim Crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. New Press ; Distributed by Perseus Distribution.

Anderson, C. B. (2009). Ancient laws and contemporary controversies : the need for inclusive biblical interpretation (http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7027196). Oxford University Press.

Anderson, C. (2017). White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Reprint edition). Bloomsbury USA.

Anderson, C. (2016). White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide. Bloomsbury Publishing USA.

Baffes, M. (2018). Text and Context: Vernacular Approaches to the Bible in Global Christianity. Wipf and Stock Publishers.

Baldwin, James. (1962). The fire next time (http://go.utlib.ca/cat/943526). Dell Pub.

Banaji, M. R., & Greenwald, A. G. (2013). Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People. Delacorte Press.

Baptist, E. E. (2014). The half has never been told : slavery and the making of American capitalism (http://go.utlib.ca/cat/9971273). Basic Books.

Barndt, J. R. (1991). Dismantling racism: the continuing challenge to white America. Augsburg.

Bayoumi, M. (2015). This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror. NYU Press.

Bell, L. A. (2010). Storytelling for Social Justice: Connecting Narrative and the Arts in Antiracist Teaching. Routledge.

Bell, D. A. (1992). Faces at the bottom of the well: the permanence of racism. BasicBooks.

Bell, Derrick. (2002). Ethical ambition : living a life of meaning and worth (http://go.utlib.ca/cat/6643508). Raincoast Books.

Benjamin, R. (2009). Searching for Whitopia: an improbable journey to the heart of white America. Hyperion.

Boal, A. (1992). Games for actors and non-actors. Routledge.

Bonilla-Silva, E. (2003). Racism without racists: color-blind racism and the persistence of racial inequality in the United States. Rowman & Littlefield.

Bowens-Wheatley, M., Jones, N. P., & Unitarian Universalist Association (Eds.). (2002). Soul work: anti-racist theologies in dialogue. Skinner House Books.

Brookfield, S. D. (2018). Teaching Race: How to Help Students Unmask and Challenge Racism. John Wiley & Sons.

Campolo, A., & Battle, M. (2005). The church enslaved: a spirituality of racial reconciliation. Fortress Press.

Cannon, K. G. (1995). Katie’s canon: womanism and the soul of the Black community. Continuum.

Cannon, K. G. (1995). Katie’s canon : womanism and the soul of the Black community (http://go.utlib.ca/cat/1443263). Continuum.

Carr, David. (2008). The night of the gun : a reporter investigates the darkest story of his life, his own (http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7620672). Simon & Schuster.

Carruthers, C. (2019). Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements. Beacon Press.

Cleveland, C. (2013). Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart. InterVarsity Press.

Coates, T.-Nehisi. (2015). Between the world and me (http://go.utlib.ca/cat/10147034). Spiegel & Grau.

Coates, T.-N. (2017). We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (First Edition edition). One World.

Coleman, Will. (2000). Tribal talk : black theology, hermeneutics, and African/American ways of “telling the story” (http://go.utlib.ca/cat/3325637). Pennsylvania State University Press.

Coleman, M. A. (2008). Making a way out of no way : a womanist theology (http://go.utlib.ca/cat/6631164). Fortress Press.

Conde-Frazier, E., Kang, S. S., & Parrett, G. A. (2004). A many colored kingdom: multicultural dynamics for spiritual formation. Baker Academic.

Cone, J. H. (2011). The cross and the lynching tree. Orbis Books.

Cone, J. H. (1975). God of the oppressed (http://go.utlib.ca/cat/582380). Seabury Press.

Cone, J. H. (2011). The cross and the lynching tree (http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7794871). Orbis Books.

Cooper, B. (2018). Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower. St. Martin’s Publishing Group.

Crenshaw, K. (1995). Critical race theory: the key writings that formed the movement. New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co.

Davies, S. E., & Hennessee, P. T. (1998). Ending racism in the church. United Church Press.

Delpit, L. D. (2012). “Multiplication is for White People”: Raising Expectations for Other People’s Children. The New Press.

Derman-Sparks, L., & Phillips, C. B. (1997). Teaching/learning anti-racism: a developmental approach. Teachers College Press.

DeYoung, C. P., Gafney, W., & Tinker, G. E. (2008). The Peoples’ Bible: New Revised Standard Version with the Apocrypha. Fortress Press.

Douglas, K. Brown. (1999). Sexuality and the Black church : a womanist perspective (http://go.utlib.ca/cat/2917545). Orbis Books.

Douglas, K. Brown. (2015). Stand your ground : Black bodies and the justice of God (http://go.utlib.ca/cat/10080664). Orbis Books.

Douglas, K. Brown. (2005). What’s faith got to do with it? : Black bodies/Christian souls (http://go.utlib.ca/cat/5591229). Orbis Books. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0510/2005009223.html

Douglas, K. Brown. (1994). The black Christ (http://go.utlib.ca/cat/233942). Orbis.

Douglas, K. Brown. (2005). What’s faith got to do with it? : Black bodies/Christian souls (http://go.utlib.ca/cat/5591229). Orbis Books. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0510/2005009223.html

Douglas, K. Brown. (2015). Stand your ground : Black bodies and the justice of God (http://go.utlib.ca/cat/10080664). Orbis Books.

Drick, B. (2015). White Allies in the Struggle for Racial Justice. Orbis Books.

Du Bois, W. E. B. (1968). The autobiography of W.E.B. DuBois : a soliloquy on viewing my life from the last decade of its first century. (http://go.utlib.ca/cat/4328730). International Publishers.