Prepared by: Corridor District Dismantling Racism Team
ARTICLES
- Brown, It’s the End of the World As We Know It – United Methodist Insight (um-insight.net)
- Duke Divinity School article on Valerie Cooper receiving Julian Abele Award
- NCJustice.org article “Race As A Weapon” on the impact of COVID-19
- New York Times “1619” Series
- UM News article on UMW Charter for Racial Justice adopted 1978
- Williams, Caroline, New York Times op-ed, “You Want A Confederate Monument?”
BLOGS
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
- Buckley, Ray, My Grandmother’s Moccasins
- Cherry, Matthew A., Hair Love
- Coles, Robert, The Story of Ruby Bridges
- Evans, Shane, We March
- Nyong’o, Lupita, Sulwe
- Tutu, Desmond, God’s Dream
DOCUMENTARIES
African American stories & experiences
- 13th by Ava du Vernay
- 3 ½ Minutes, 10 Bullets (about the “loud music” incident at a Jacksonville gas station in 2021.
- I Am Not Your Negro (about James Baldwin)
- Celebrate Black History Month 2021
- Eyes on the Prize (documentary on the civil rights movement)
- Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992 (chronicles relationship between LA’s Black community and LAPD in the decade before the Rodney King riots)
- Meeting David Wilson
- Say Her Name The Life and Death of Sandra Bland
- Slavery by Another Name
- Teach Us All (inequalities in the American public school system)
- The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
- The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
- The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
- The Central Park Five
- The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
- Whose Streets? (about Ferguson, Missouri, uprising)
- Wilmington on Fire documentary
Asian American stories and experiences
Immigration
- American Arab
- Which Way Home? documentary
Native American stories and experiences
- Almost An Island
- And Now We Rise
- Apache 8
- Bloody Memory
- Growing Native Great Lakes: Turtle Island
- Home From School
- Lake of Betrayal
- Lumbee Native American Wants Recognition
- Searching for Sequoyah
- Sisters Rising
- Standing Bear’s Footsteps
- The Blackfeet Blood
- The People’s Protector
- Tribal Justice
- Vision Maker Media has documentaries for both adults and children
ESSAYS
- Kimmerer, Robin Wall, Braiding Sweetgrass
FICTION
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, Americanah
- Baldwin, James, Go Tell It on the Mountain
- Baldwin, James, The Fire Next Time
- Ellison, Ralph, Invisible Man
- García, Cristina, The Aguero Sisters
- García Márquez, Gabriel, One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Kidd, Sue Monk, The Invention of Wings
- Hobson, Brandon, Where the Dead Sit Talking
- Hurston, Zora Neale, Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Morrison, Toni, Beloved
- Ng, Celeste, Little Fires Everywhere
- Orange, Tommy, There There
- Randall, Alice, The Wind Done Gone
- Reid, Kiley, Such A Fun Age
- Walker, Alice, The Color Purple
- Whitehead, Colson, The Nickel Boys
- Whitehead, Colson, The Underground Railroad
- Wright, Richard, Native Son
FILMS
- Best of Enemies (dramatization of a true story of the relationship between Durham civil rights activist Ann Atwater and KKK leader C.P. Ellis. The book is by Osha Davidson).
- BlacKkKlansman
- Chi-Raq
- Dark Girls
- Do The Right Thing
- Get Out
- Harriet (not a documentary but a cinematic telling of the story of Harriet Tubman)
- Hidden Figures
- Invictus
- Judas and the Black Messiah
- Just Mercy
- Loving
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
MUSIC
- Billie Holliday, Strange Fruit
- Pum Vculcke Vrrakuecetv – Native American Album sung in the Creek language (Appropriate for Native American Ministries Sunday)
NON-FICTION
History
- Baptist, Edward, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism.
- Blackmon, Douglas, Slavery By Another Name
- Blay, Yaba One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race
- Kendi, Ibram,Stamped from the Beginning
- Skloot, Rebecca, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- Tutu, Desmond, No Future Without Forgiveness
- Tyson, Tim, Blood Done Sign My Name
- Tyson, Tim, The Blood of Emmett Till
Immigrant experiences/migration
- DeLeón, Jason, The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail
- Elizondo, Virgilio, The Future is Mestizo: Life Where Cultures Meet
- Ferguson, Kathryn, Crossing with the Virgin: Stories from the Migrant Trail
- Gonzalez, Karen, The God Who Sees: Immigrants, the Bible, and the Journey to Belong
- Grande, Reyna, The Distance Between Us
- Holmes, Seth, Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the U.S.
- Urrea, Luis Alberto, The Devil’s Highway
- Wilkerson, Isabel, The Warmth of Other Suns
Indigenous Peoples
- Curtice, Kaitlin, Native: Identity, Belonging, & Rediscovering God
- Dudley, Joseph Iron Eye, Choteau Creek: A Sioux Reminiscence
- Enns and Myers, Healing Haunted Histories
- Lowery, Malinda Maynor, Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
- Roberts, Gary L., Massacre at Sand Creek: How Methodists Were Involved in an American Tragedy
Memoirs
- Angelou, Maya, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Brown, Austin Channing, I’m Still Here
- Chang, David, Eat A Peach
- Coates, Ta-Nehisi, Between the World and Me
- Curry, Michael, Love is the Way: Holding Hope in Troubling Times
- Dyson, Michael Eric, Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America (hybrid of memoir and call to action)
- Hinton, Anthony, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
- Irving, Debbie, Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race (Good intro for congregations starting conversations)
- Kaur, Valarie, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
- Kendi,Ibram, How To Be an Anti-Racist (hybrid of memoir and anti-racist analysis)
- Lincoln, C. Eric, Coming Through the Fire: Surviving Race and Place in America
Slavery
- Glymph, Thavolia, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
- Gordon-Reed, Annette, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
- Patterson, Orlando, Slavery and Social Death
- Caroline Randall Williams: author, chef, activist, and teacher, writer-in-residence at Vanderbilt University.
Theology
- Cone, James, The Cross and The Lynching Tree
- Douglas, Kelly Brown, Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God
- Jennings, Willie James, The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race
- Jennings, Willie James, After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging
- Jun, et al, White Jesus: The Architecture of Racism in Religion and Education
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., ed. Cornel West, The Radical King
· Rasmus, Rudy, ed.,I’m Black. I’m Christian. I’m Methodist
White Supremacy
- Alexander, Michelle, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
- Bonilla-Silva, Edouardo, Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America
- Charles, Mark, and Rah, Soon Chang, Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery
- DiAngelo, Robin, What Does It Mean to Be White? Developing White Racial Literacy
- DiAngelo, Robin, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
ONLINE
- Christena Cleveland: activist and public theologian
- NC Conference of the UMC Anti-Racist webpage
- NC Conference of the UMC Media Center anti-racist resources
- UMC Council of Bishops, Statement on the Scourge of Racism. All the activities of the Council of Bishops against racism can be found here.
- UMC Discipleship: How to Have a Courageous Conversation: Racism | Discipleship (teachable.com)
- UMC Discipleship: Discipleship Ministries | The Pentecost Challenge: Introduction (umcdiscipleship.org)
- Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources
- UMC General Commission on Religion and Race www.gcorr.org
POETRY
PODCASTS
- “1619” podcast
- Code Switch (NPR)
- Cultural Humility podcast
- Deep Reckonings
- Ear Hustle
- For the Love with Jen Hatmaker (episodes focusing on racial justice)
- Guerilla Muse
- Latino USA (NPR)
- Nice White Parents (Serial/NYTimes)
- Deep Reckonings from the NC Conference
- Shoebox Stories
- The Michelle Obama Podcast
- This Land (Documentary podcast dealing with Native land rights in Oklahoma and peace treaties)
SMALL GROUP OR SUNDAY SCHOOL STUDIES
- Justice or Just Us? By Rob Fuquay
- Fear of the Other: No Fear in Love, by Will Willimon
- Dialogues on Race, by SparkHouse
- How to Fight Racism Video Study, by Jemar Tisby
STREAMING/TELEVISION
- Little Fires Everywhere on Hulu
- Pose on Netflix
- The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead) on Prime Video
VISUAL ARTS
WEBSITES
- Center for Justice and Renewal
- Dismantling Racism
- Zine on white supremacy culture written by Tema Okun and illustrated by Laura Donovan, https://www.dismantlingracism.org/uploads/4/3/5/7/43579015/zine_02.pdf
- Hope 4 Humanity: H4H focuses on migrant experiences