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Anti-Racism Resources: Deep Work, Equity, Imago Dei

Resources to support anti-racism pedagogy, social justice and cross disciplinary course offerings at APU

Imago Dei - Created in the image of God

Yancy, George.  Christology and Whiteness:  What Would Jesus Do?  Routledge, 2012.  EBOOK

Dixson, Adrienne D. and Celia K. Rousseau.  Critical Race Theory in Education:  All God's Children Got a Song.  Routledge, 2006.  EBOOK

Williams, Reggie L.  Bonhoeffer's Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance.  Baylor University Press, 2014. Theology (BX4827.B57 W545 2014)

 

Acknowledging Systems and Ideologies

Wallis, Jim. America's Original Sin:  Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America.  Brazos Press, 2016.   ECampus (E185.615 .W3125 2016)

Roediger, David R. Working Toward Whiteness:  How America's Immigrants Became White:  The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs.  New York: Basic Books, 2005.  ECampus (E184.A1 R644 2005)

DeWolf, Thomas Norman and Sharon Leslie Morgan.  Gather at the Table: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade.  Boston, MA, Beacon Press, 2012.  Link+

Hill, Daniel.  White Awake:  An Honest Look at What it Means to be White.  Downers Grove, IL, IVP Books, 2017.  Link+

Wilkerson, Isabel. Caste:  the Origins of Our Discontent.  Routledge, NY, 2020.  Link+

Yancy, George.  Reframing the Practice of Philosophy:  Bodies of Color, Bodies of Knowledge.  State University of New York Press, 2012.  EBOOK

Banaji, Mahzarin and Anthony Greenwald.  Blindspot:  Hidden Biases of Good People.  New York:  Delacorte Press, 2013.  LINK+

 

Deep Work

Tisby, Jemar (2019). The Color of Compromise: the Truth About the American Church’s Complicity in Racism.  Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan

Yancy, George and Susan Hadley.  Narrative Identities:  Psychologists Engaged in Self Construction.  Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2005.  EBOOK

King, Ruth.  Mindful of Race:  Transforming Racism from the Inside Out.  Boulder, CO:  Sounds True, 2018.  LINK+

Saad, Layla.  Me and White Supremacy:  Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor.  Naperville, IL:  Sourcebooks, 2020.  LINK+

Dyson, Michael Eric.  Tears We Cannot Stop:  A Sermon to White America.  New York, St. Martins Press, 2017.  LINK+