racial justice resource list

Get involved

• Like and follow the RHV Racial Identity and Inclusion Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/RHVracialidentity

• Join a RHV Racial Justice Life Group: https://www.riverheightsvineyard.org/life-groups

• Like and follow the Be the Bridge Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/beabridgebuilder

Faith-based

• White Awake: An Honest Look at What it Means to be White - Daniel Hill (book)

• Be the Bridge- Latasha Morrison (book)

• How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice - Jemar Tisby (book)

• I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World made for Whiteness - Austin Channing Brown (book)

• Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America - Michael Emerson (book)

• One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love - John M. Perkins (book)

• Let Justice Roll Down - John M. Perkins (book)

• Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times - Soong-Chan Rah (book)

• The Cross and the Lynching Tree - James H. Cone (book)

• Liberation and Reconciliation: A Black Theology - J. Deotis Roberts (book)

Housing inequities

• Jim Crow of the North (movie) (https://www.tpt.org/minnesota-experience/video/jim-crow-of-the-north-stijws/)

• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America - Richard Rothstein (book)

Criminal justice inequities

• 13th (movie)  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8&t=2s)

• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption - Bryan Stevenson (book/movie)

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander (book)

Native American inequities

• Impact of Unresolved Trauma on American Indian Health Equity (movie) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS7WKxDtkwY)

Educational inequities

• Teach Us All (movie)

History

• The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism (book/movie)

• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America - Ibram X. Kendri (book)

• A People’s History of the United States - Howard Zinn (book)

• The Myth of Equality: Uncovering the Roots of Injustice and Privilege - Ken Wytsma (book)

• Jesus of the Disinherited - Howard Thurman (book)

• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration - Isabel Wilkerson (book)

• The Half has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism - Edward Baptist (book)

• Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America - Juan Gonzalez (book)

• An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (book)

• Selma (movie)

Other

• How to be an Anti-racist - Ibram X. Kendi (book)

• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race - Beverly Daniel Tatum (book)

• When They See Us (movie)

• Race: The Power of Illusion (movie)

• Song: “I am Tired” (song) by Aretha Scruggs can be purchased at ArethaScruggs.com, along with her other projects