Reconciling All Things: A Christian Vision for Justice, Peace and Healing
Our world is broken and cries out for reconciliation. But mere conflict resolution and peacemaking are not enough.
Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice That Restores
Dominique Gilliard explores the history and foundation of mass incarceration, examining Christianity’s role in its evolution and expansion.
Roadmap to Reconciliation: Moving Communities into Unity, Wholeness and Justice
We can see the injustice and inequality in our lives and in the world. We are ready to rise up.
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
For twenty years, Gregory Boyle has run Homeboy Industries, a gang-intervention program located in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world.
The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice from the Civil Rights Movement to Today
A noted theologian explains how the radical idea of Christian love animated the African American civil rights movement and how it can power today's social justice struggles.
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Widely heralded as a “masterful” (Washington Post) and “essential” (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law offers “the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation” (William Julius Wilson)
The Cross and the Lynching Tree
The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the African American community.
The Dangerous Act of Worship: Living God's Call to Justice
What's at stake in our worship? Everything. Worship is the dangerous act of waking up to God and God's purposes in the world. But something has gone wrong with our worship.
The Future of Whiteness
White identity is in ferment.
The Heart of Racial Justice: How Soul Change Leads to Social Change
Racial and ethnic hostility is one of the most pervasive problems the church faces.
The New Jim Crow
Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement.
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
Taking a look at white supremacy, this work argues that racism is a matter of interests as well as attitudes, a problem of property as well as pigment.
The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus' Teachings and How They Have Been Corrupted
Who was Jesus? And how was this first-century political revolutionary, whose teachings are meant to lead the way to freedom, turned into a meek and mild servant of the status quo?
The Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear
A modern-day civil rights champion tells the stirring story of how he helped start a movement to bridge America’s racial divide.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history.
Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery
Injustice has plagued American society for centuries.
We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation
In these provocative, powerful essays acclaimed writer/journalist Jeff Chang (Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, Who We Be) takes an incisive and wide-ranging look at the recent tragedies and widespread protests that have shaken the country.
We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future
In the lead-up to the recent presidential election, Donald Trump called for a complete ban on Muslims entering the United States,
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine)