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- Blight, David. Race and reunion : the Civil War in American memory. Harvard University Press, 2001
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- Brown, Dee. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee. Picador, 2007
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- Chin, Elizabeth. Purchasing power : Black kids and America consumer culture. University of Minnesota Press, 2001
- Christology and Whiteness : What would Jesus do? Edited by George Yancy. Routledge, 2012
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- Douglas, Kelly Brown. Stand your ground : black bodies and the justice of God. Orbis Books, 2015
- Douglas, Kelly Brown. What’s faith got to do with it?: Black bodies/Christian souls. Orbis Books, 2005
- Fletcher, Jeannine Hill. The sin of white supremacy : Christianity, racism, and religious diversity in America. Orbis Books, 2017
- Fluker, Walter Earl. The ground has shifted : the future of the Black Church in post-racial America. New York University Press, 2016
- Harvey, Jennifer. Dear White Christians : for those still longing for racial reconciliation. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2014
- Horsford, Sonya Douglass. Learning in a burning house : educational inequality, ideology, and (dis)integration. New York : Teachers College Press, 2011
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- Lewis, Harold T. Yet with a steady beat : the African American struggle for recognition in the Episcopal Church. Trinity Press International, 1996
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- Policing the Planet : why the policing crisis led to Black Lives Matter / edited by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton. New York : Verso, 2016
- Powell, John A. Racing to justice : transforming our conceptions of self and other to build an inclusive society. Indiana University Press, 2012
- Rah, Soon-Chan. The next evangelicalism : freeing the church from Western cultural captivity. IVP, 2015
- Rah, Soon-Chan. Prophetic Lament: A call for justice in troubled times.
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Articles
- Coates, Ta-Nehisi. “The Case for Reparations.” (The Atlantic, May 21, 2014)
Online Resources
- A Letter to the Church on Breaking Free of White Supremacy— By Kelly Brown Douglas, Stephanie Spellers and Winnie Varghese
- Racial Justice from the Equal Justice Initiative
- Resources from the Episcopal Church
- Talking about Race from the National Museum of African American History & Culture