Here’s a list of books that the social justice group has read. Most of these books are available in the church library.
here’s a list of all of the books and films this group has read and discussed. most of these books are available from our church library if you’d like to borrow one!
1) Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman
2) Waking Up White: And Finding Myself In A Story Of Race by Debby Irving
3) The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby
4) Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen” by Jose Antonio Vargas
5) The Far Away Brothers by Lauren Markham
6) The Glass House Chronicles: The Sharp Decline of an All American Factory Town by Brian Alexander
7) I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
8) The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
9) At Home in Exile: Finding Jesus Among my Ancestors and Refugee Neighbors by Russell Jeung
10) From This American Life: Starbucks Racial Sensitivity Training as observed by an NPR reporter who was invited to attend.
12) Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon
13) Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward, a novel (about justice in Mississippi per Alice)
14) The Innocent Man by John Grisham
15) The Confession also by John Grisham
16) Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
17) Half the Sky, by Nicholas Kristoff and Cheryl WuDunn
18) Real American by Julia Lythcott-Harris
19) Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm by Sheri Fink
20) Who We Be: The Colorization of America by Jeff Chang
21) Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Remembrance. By Reggie L. Williams
22) Strangers in Their Own Land by Ariel Russell Hochschild
23) I am Not Your Negro. Movie.Available on You Tube, Amazon video, Vudu if you would like to watch it in advance
24) Moonlight –movie
25) Dare We Speak of Hope by Allan Boesak
26) Strangers in a Strange Land by Charles Chaput
27) Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
28) Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
29) Between the World and Me by James Baldwin
30) Dog Whistle Politics by Ian Haney López
31) America’s Original Sin by Jim Wallis
32) What Happened to Nina Simone? Netflix movie
33) Negroland by Margo Jefferson
34) The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
35) Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
36) Black Man White Coat by Damon Tweedy
37) Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
38) The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs
39) High Price by Carl Hart
40) A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind