Conversations guided by the Racism Study Pack will be held in the St. John's Social Hall
Wednesdays, July 29 & Aug. 5 from 6:00-7:15pm.
Come at 5:30 for a potluck dinner!
Wednesdays, July 29 & Aug. 5 from 6:00-7:15pm.
Come at 5:30 for a potluck dinner!
The Racism Study PackWhy Is It So Difficult To Talk About Racism | July 29
There are many reasons why it is difficult to talk about race and racism. There are also many reasons we must and should have this conversation. Racism 101 | Aug. 5 Toward a definition of racism and deeper understanding of its many aspects. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack | Extra “I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group” ... Also Free Online ...Overcoming Racial Faith | Willie James Jennings
Duke Divinity School - Western Christianity has become entangled with racism, and overthrowing this racial faith requires understanding its core components 8 Facts About Race Every White Person Needs to Know to Help Fight Racism | Darnell Moore "This past school year, I taught a course on black women and prisons at a predominantly white university in central New York. Once, in the middle of a frank class discussion on white privilege and institutional racism ..." Racism Didn't Take A Vacation While You Were Out (complete with extended bibliography) | Laura Cheifetz You want to fight racism? Enough talking. Let’s do something concrete. Here are some ideas. Opening the Question of Race to the Question of Belonging | ONBeing (audio) w/ Krista Tippett & john a. powell “Race is a little bit like gravity,” john powell says: "experienced by all, understood by the few." *A More Comprehensive Reading List has been compiled by the folks at The Table UCC in La Mesa, CA, and can be seen here. |
A Few BooksThe New Jim Crow | Michelle Alexander
"This book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama signals a new era of colorblindness. With dazzling candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." But I Don't See You As Asian | Bruce Reyes-Chow ... curates a collection of cringe-inducing statements about race such as, “If they can say it, why can't I?" ” "Do you know martial arts?" and “He’s a different kind of Black,” hoping to turn awkward moments into a dialogue between friends. Between The World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Racing to Justice | john a. powell Culled from a decade of writing about social justice and spirituality, these meditations on race, identity, and social policy provide an outline for laying claim to our shared humanity and a way toward healing ourselves and securing our future. The Warmth of Other Suns | Isabel Wilkerson In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. Radical Reconciliation | Allan A. Boesak & Curtis Paul-DeYoung Too many initiatives for reconciliation, fail to remove the weeds of injustice at the roots, and thus stop short of completing the work required. Such political arrangements usually favor the rich and powerful, but deprive the powerless of justice and dignity. This is a form of political pietism, and when Christians refuse to name this situation for what it is, they are practicing Christian quietism. True reconciliation is radical. |