Moral Monday Group’s Resources on Racism
One’s journey toward better understanding their role in contributing to racism today must first be a personal one. That journey should include deep reflection on one’s own life and background, how racism has influenced one’s thinking, and recognition of what history one must learn (or re-learn through a non-White lens). Addressing systemic racism in organizations and society is the lifelong work we all must choose to take up, and myriad resources address organizational and societal racism. However, this work only can be accomplished with a commitment to also continue the hard “inner work.” The following resources (and related audio/video resources by these authors) are a recommended starting point.
Youth/Adult Resources
Books
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Blindspot by Mahzarin Banaji
How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped from the Beginning, by Ibram X. Kendi
Dear Church by Lenny Duncan
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarnation in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Podcasts
Messiah College Professor Drew Hart gives churches ideas on how to battle racism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWLOyw1kDN4&
The Church Dismantled by Conrad Kanagy, Etown sociology professor and local Mennonite pastor. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1109915/5497774-episode-93-if-gentile-lives-mattered-why-not-black-lives-the-social-conscience-of-white-evangelicals-of-an-earlier-time-and-how-the-dismantling-of-the-church-and-racism-is-the-continued-work-of-the-holy-spirit-
Lutheran Pastor Lenny Duncan – https://www.npr.org/2020/09/09/911005948/black-pastor-wants-his-mostly-white-congregation-to-understand-racial-justice
Movies
Just Mercy – based on the true life story of black attorney Brian Stevenson
The Hate You Give – A young black teen’s struggle between two cultures
Have a resource you would like to add? Reach out to Sister Dottie Almoney at dottie.almoney@stpeterslutheran.org