Recommended Books & Videos
Fr. Bryan Massingale: How the church can combat racism and white privilege
Race in the Classroom: Seeing Color
SERIES: Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
Reading List
On 6/9/20 the Jesuit Schools Network meeting of Directors of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion shared resources for understanding the work of anti-racism. These books were personally recommended as excellent resources.
America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege and the Bridge to New America by Jim Wallis
Black Labor, White Wealth: The Search for Power and Economic Justice by Claud Anderson
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta Hammond
How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World of Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
Not Light, But Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom by Matthew R. Kay
Racial Justice in the Catholic Church by Bryan N. Massingale
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Waking Up White in America by Debbie Irving
White Fragility: Why it’s so Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo