Reading for Racial Justice –
Book Recommendations
There are so many great books on the topics of Race, Racism, Anti-Racism and Faith. Here are a few of Tiffany’s favorite titles to start or continue your reading.
Read Dr Beverly Daniel Tatum’s “Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”: A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity
Read Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith’s Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
Read Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Read Lisa Sharon Harper’s The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right
Read Michael Eric Dyson’s Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
Read Ibram X Kendi’s How to be an Antiracist
Read Austin Channing Brown’s I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Read James H. Cone’s The Cross and the Lynching Tree
Read Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Read Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Read Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me