Racial Healing Commission – Suggested Reading Lists – Adults
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Nonfiction:
Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman
Waking Up White by Debby Irving
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America by Jim Wallis
Black Cloud Rising by David Wright Falade
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
Healing Our Broken Humanity: Practices for Revitalizing the Church and Renewing the World by Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Graham Hill
Ripe Fields: The Promise and Challenge of Latino Ministry by Juan Oliver
Beyond the Messy Truth by Van Jones
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
The Great Migration: Journey to the North by Eloise Greenfield
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson
SAY IT LOUD! On Race, Law, History and Culture by Randall Kennedy
The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle by Malinda Maynor Lowery
Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Color in the South by Warren Eugene Milteer Jr.
The Race Beat by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? By Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Spirituals and the Blues by James H. Cone
My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
Memoirs:
Going to School in Black and White: A Dual Memoir of Desegregation by Cindy Waszak Geary and Lahoma Smith Romocki
The Water Is Wide by Pat Conroy
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
Fiction:
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
Hell of a Book: A Novel by Jason Mott
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
When Ghosts Come Home by Wiley Cash