Congregation-Wide
Anti-Racism
Learning & Action Initiative
RESOURCES FOR
Anti-Racism
We are committed to an anti-racist society and community. Part of our shared commitment toward ethical and spiritual growth is to move into places of discomfort and denial and educate ourselves, individually and together, about the realities of white supremacy. Here are some related readings that we recommend to you for private study and shared conversation:
http://www.blacklivesuu.com/teach-in-resources/
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White Supremacy Culture (A list of characteristics)
https://collectiveliberation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/White_Supremacy_Culture_Okun.pdf
http://www.dismantlingracism.org/
http://www.dismantlingracism.org/resources.html
UUA Resources:
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The Anti-Racist Cookbook, A Recipe Guide for Conversations About Race That Goes Beyond Covered Dishes and “Kum-Bah-Ya” by Robin Parker and Pamela Smith Chambers (2005)
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*Black Pioneers in a White Denomination by Mark D. Morrison-Reed (1980)
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Dismantling Racism, The Continuing Challenge to White America by Joseph Barndt (1991)
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*Can We Talk About Race? And Other Conversations in an Era of School Regregation by Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D (2007)
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*SOUL WORK, Anti-Racist Theologies in Dialogue edited by Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley and Nancy Palmer-Jones (2003)
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*Uprooting Racism, How White People Can Work For Racial Justice by Paul Kivel (2002)
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Allies for Racial Equality recommended books:
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The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays, Fusion Politics, and the Rise of a New Justice Movement Rev. Dr. William Barber II and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove {UUA Common Read 2016-17}
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Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson {UUA Common Read 2015-16}
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Uprooting Racism Paul Kivel
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Other books or resources:
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Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy by Kevin Bales
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander