Resources for Racial Reconciliation
Websites, Videos, Bibliographies and Study Resources
From The Episcopal Church Resources for Racial Reconciliation and Justice
- Presiding Bishop’s Office
- A Way Forward: Reflections, Resources & Stories Concerning Ferguson, Racial Justice & Reconciliation: advocacy.episcopalchurch.org/episcopal/AWayForward
- Resolution A183, Recommended Study Book of the Triennium: newjimcrow.com/
- Lenten series on racial justice from ChurchNext: www.churchnext.tv/library/categories/social-justice Especially recommended: “Spirituality and Racial Justice” with Presiding Bishop Michael Curry
- Videos and readings from Trinity Institute 2016, “Listen for a Change: Sacred Conversations for Racial Justice”: www.trinitywallstreet.org/trinity-institute/2016/resources Especially recommended: the Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas’ video presentation
- Fifty Years Later: The State of Racism in America, by The Episcopal Church and the Diocese of Mississippi: www.episcopalchurch.org/page/state-racism
- Racial Justice Bibliography, compiled by theological educators: rjb.religioused.org/
- Province I Resources: www.province1.org/exploring-diversity-and-nurturing-cultural-competency
- Beloved Community: Commission for Dismantling Racism in the Diocese of Atlanta: www.episcopalatlanta.org/Dismantling_Racism/
Formation and Training Organizations
- Crossroads Antiracism Organizing and Training: www.crossroadsantiracism.org
- Duke Center for Reconciliation: divinity.duke.edu/initiatives/cfr
- Kaleidoscope Institute: www.kscopeinstitute.org/
- People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (especially the Undoing Racism Program): www.pisab.org
- Seeing the Face of God in Each Other: www.episcopalchurch.org/library/document/seeing-face-godeach-other-antiracism-training-manual-episcopal-church
- Traces of the Trade (based on the film of the same name): www.tracesofthetrade.org
- VISIONS Inc.: www.visions-inc.org
- The Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation: winterinstitute.org
Book Recommendations
- Becoming the Anti-racist Church: Journeying Toward Wholeness by Joseph Barndt (Mar 1, 2011)
- Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace by Miroslav Volf (Jan 24, 2006)
- Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History by Thomas Norman DeWolf
- It’s the Little Things: The Everyday Interactions that Get under the Skin of Blacks and Whites by Lena Williams (January, 2002)
- Lifting the White Veil: An Exploration of White American Culture in a Multiracial Context by Jeff Hitchcock, J. ( January , 2002)
- No Future Without Forgiveness by Desmond Tutu (Oct 17, 2000)
- Racial Sobriety: A Journey from Hurts to Healing by Clarence Earl Williams (August 28, 2002)
- Reconciliation: The Ubuntu Theology of Desmond Tutu by Michael Jesse Battle (July 1, 2009)
- Remember: The Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison (May 2004)
- Seeing God in Each Other by Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook (Editor) (March, 2006)
- The Church Enslaved by Tony Campolo and Michael Battle (May, 2005)
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (Jan 5, 2010)
- Where the Edge Gathers: Building a Community of Radical Inclusion by Yvette A. Flunder
- White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise (September, 2011)
- Yet With a Steady Beat: The African American Struggle for Recognition in the Episcopal Church by Harold T Lewis (January, 1996)