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Racism and Racial Reconciliation: Home

Recent Library Books on Racism and Reconciliation (2021--24)

Confronting Racial Injustice : theory and praxis for the church (2023)

African Biblical Studies : unmasking embedded racism and colonialism in biblical studies (2023)

Heathen: religion and race in American history (2022)

Healing Conversations on Race : four key practices from scripture and psychology (2023)

Black Lives, White Lies: the Need for White Christians to Fight Racism in America (2021)

Recollecting Americas Original Sin : a pilgrimage of race and grace (2022)

Becoming Human: the Holy Spirit and the rhetoric of race (2022)

EBOOK: The church cracked open : disruption, decline, and new hope for beloved community

N : my encounter with racism and the forbidden word in an American classic

Just Care: ethical anti-racist pastoral care with women with mental illness

EBOOK: Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

Nice White Ladies : the truth about White supremacy, our role in it, and how we can help dismantle it

Improvising Reconciliation: Confession after the Truth Commission

(EBOOK): Hostile heartland : racism, repression, and resistance in the Midwest

The Color of Compromise :: the truth about the American church's complicity in racism

Becoming a White Antiracist: a practical guide for educators, leaders, and activists

I Bring the Voices of My People: a womanist vision for racial reconciliation

White Evangelical Racism : the politics of morality in America

Scrap Racism!!!: the church's response to racism

Praying with Our Feet: pursuing justice and healing on the streets

Black suffering : silent pain, hidden hope

Forgiveness, peacemaking, and reconciliation

White Too Long: the legacy of white supremacy in American Christianity

Trouble I've seen : changing the way the church views racism

Scrap Racism!!!: the church's response to racism

The Assault on Elisha Green : race and religion in a Kentucky community

We Testify with Our Lives: how religion transformed radical thought from black power to Black Lives Matter

Also see our LibGuide on MLK, DEI, and Racial Reconciliation

Journal articles on racism--from Luther Sem Library databases

Atla-Religion full-text articles--a sampling from recent years

Recent full-text articles from variety of Luther Sem databases

Websites and other resources on racism

Also see these Library links:

"Racism and Racial Reconciliation as viewed through the lens of two icons" (H.W. Thurman, M.L. King)
"Asian American Pacific Islanders": prejudice and heritage
James Cone: a bibliography
"Racism has a cost for everyone": TED talk with Heather C. McGhee (Sum of Us author)
LibGuide on Justice & Social Issues