Race

Racial Righteousness Resource List

These are some resources to help us process and be discipled in racial righteousness.

As with any resource list, these are all worthy for learning, but doesn’t mean we endorse every idea—nor does it excuse each of us from praying and thinking through as a community.

Watch:

• Just Mercy (free)

• 13th Netflix documentary

• TED Talks

• Pastor Drew’s “Bible & Basketball” YouTube channel (Asian-Black dynamic)

Read:

• The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism 

• Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores 

• The Cross and the Lynching Tree

• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria

• Beyond Colorblind: Redeeming Our Ethnic Journey

Asian-American Specific:

• Asian Americans PBS documentary

• Asian-American Complicity in Racism

• Dismantling Barrier Between Asians & Blacks

• Three Things Asian Americans Owe to the Civil Rights Movement

• At Home in Exile: Finding Jesus among My Ancestors and Refugee Neighbors

• The Making of Asian America: A History

• American Born Chinese (graphic novel)

• Boxers & Saints (graphic novel)

Social Media: Black Pastors & Christian Leaders:

• Richard Villodas Jr [FB] [IG] [Tw]

• Efrem Smith [FB] [IG] [Tw]

• Alex Gee [FB] [IG] [Tw]

• Brenda Salter McNeil [FB] [IG] [Tw]

• Dominique Gilliard [FB] [IG] [Tw]

• Eugene Cho [FB] [IG] [Tw] (yes, he’s not black, but worth following)

Websites:

• www.joincampaignzero.org - data driven approach to reducing police killings

• www.eji.org - criminal justice reform, racial justice, public education

Poems:

• The Kids Who Die

• Who but The Lord?

• Refugee in America

• I, Too

• Harlem

• Let America Be America Again

• Caged Bird

• We Wear the Mask

• Ballad Of Birmingham

• Afterimages

Music: Racial Righteousness & Lament [Spotify Playlist]

Credit: Some of these resources are from the ECC.