Wednesday, November 23, 2016

SOCIAL JUSTICE READING LIST








The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
Rules for Radicals – Saul Alinsky

Dirty Hands: Christian Ethics in a Morally Ambiguous World - Garth Baker-Fletcher

God of the Rahtid – Robert Beckford
The Cost of Discipleship – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Manchild in a Promised Land – Claude Brown
Katie’s Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the of the Black Community - Katie Cannon

Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
God of the Oppressed – James Cone

A Black Theology of Liberation – James Cone
The Cross and the Lynching Tree – James Cone

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement - 
Angela Davis                                              

The Souls of Black Folk – W.E.B Dubois
Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster - Michael Eric Dyson

The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America - Michael Eric Dyson

Ferguson and Faith: Sparking Leadership and Awakening Community - Leah Gunning Francis
Pedagogy of the Oppressed – Paulo Freire

Hope and History: Why We Must Share the Story of the Movement -  Vincent Harding
The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus’ Teachings and How they have been Corrupted – Obery Hendricks

Blessed are the Peacemakers: A Theological Analysis of the Thought of Howard Thurman and Martin Luther King, Jr.   C. Anthony Hunt
My Hope is Built: Essays, Sermons and Prayers on Religion and Race - C. Anthony Hunt

Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing - Dennis Jacobson

Race, Religion and Resilience in the Neoliberal Age – Cedric Johnson

Is God a White Racist? – William R. Jones
Justice in an Unjust World – Karen Lebacqz

Racism and the Christian Understanding of Man – George Kelsey
Why We Can’t Wait – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Where do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? – Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Malcom X
Where have all the Prophets Gone?: Redeeming Prophetic Preaching in America Marvin McMickle

Pulpit and Politics: Separation of Church and State in the Black Church - Marvin McMickle

Jesus Weeps: Global Encounters on Our Doorstep – Harold Recinos

A Troubling in My Soul: Womanist Perspectives on Evil and Suffering - Emilie Townes
Jesus and the Disinherited – Howard Thurman

The Luminous Darkness: A Personal Interpretation of the Anatomy of Segregation and the Ground of Hope – Howard Thurman
America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege and the Bridge to a New America - Jim Wallis

Prophecy Deliverance – Cornel West

Race Matters – Cornel West
Bonhoeffer’s Back Jesus: Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance - Reggie Williams

No Difference in the Fare: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Problem of Racism - Josiah U. Young

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