A note: In this list you will find a range of sources that I have, personally, found to be helpful in my own growth in cross-cultural love, even when I come into disagreement with certain ideas, arguments, and proposals in some of these works. If you approach these resources in the right way, it can be an act of devotion to the Lord. As you wrestle with the material, I encourage you to do so with an awareness of the Spirit’s presence and his desire to lead us all in faith and repentance with an eye toward personal and corporate formation.

Articles & Reports

• Dr. Kenny Gibbs, ICCM Blog Series Advancing Gopsel Reconciliation
• Frederick Douglass, The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro , July 5th, 1852
• Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, Letter From Birmingham Jail
• Charles Marsh, The Civil Rights Movement As Theological Drama, Modern Theology 18:2 April 2002
• Esau McCaulley, What the Bible Has to Say About Black Anger
• Ekemini Uwan, There’s No Going Back to ‘Normal’
• Mychal Denzel Smith, White Millennials are products of a failed lesson in colorblindness
• Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations”, Atlantic Monthly , June 2014
• PCA Position Paper on Racism & Racial Reconciliation (2018)

Church History & Theology

• Mark A. Noll, From Every Tribe and Nation (Turning South: Christian Scholars in an Age of World Christianity): A Historian’s Discovery of the Global Christian Story
• Philip Jenkins, The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity
• Justo L. Gonzalez, Mañana: Christian Theology from a Hispanic Perspective
• Justo L. Gonzalez, The Mestizo Augustine: A Theologian Between Two Cultures
• Charles Marsh, God’s Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights
• Charles Marsh, Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Michael Emerson and Christian Smith, Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
• Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews, Doctrine and Race: African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism Between the Wars
• Rita Roberts, Evangelicalism and the Politics of Reform in Northern Black Thought
• Brian Bantum, The Death of Race: Building a New Christianity in a Racial World
• Doug Serven, Russ Whitfield,  Irwyn Ince, Duke Kwon, et al, Heal Us, Emmanuel (written by PCA pastors and elders in reflection on our denomination)
• Leon Brown, Irwyn Ince, Russ Whitfield, et al, All Are Welcome: Toward A Multi-Everything Church
• David Swanson, Rediscipling the White Church
• Jemar Tisby, Color of Compromise
• Irwyn L. Ince Jr., The Beautiful Community: Unity, Diversity, and the Church At Its Best (Forthcoming)
• Duke L. Kwon and Gregory Thompson, Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair (Forthcoming)

Books

• David R. Roediger, Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White
• W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk
• James Forman Jr, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
• Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow
• Douglas A Blackmon, Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
• Erika Lee, America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
• Ed. John Kuo Wei Tchen and Dylan Yeats, “Yellow Peril!: An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear
• Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
• Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
• Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria
• Daniel Hill, White Awake: An Honest Look At What It Means to Be White
• Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
• Juan Gonzalez and Joseph Torres, News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media
• Edward Flannery, The Anguish of the Jews: Twenty-Three Centuries of Anti-Semitism
• Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-year Untold History of Class in America
• Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert, When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor…and Yourself
• Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
• Kamal Al-Solaylee, Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to everyone)
• Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind

For Children & Families

• The Gospel in Color For Parents: A Theology of Racial Reconciliation for Parents by Curtis A. Woods and Jarvis J. Williams
• The Gospel in Color For Kids: A Theology of Racial Reconciliation for Kids by Curtis A. Woods and Jarvis J. Williams
• God’s Very Good Idea by Trillia Newbell
• God Made Me AND You: Celebrating God’s Design for Ethnic Diversity by Shai Linne
• The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
• Viola Desmond Won’t Be Budged! by Jody Nyasha Warner and Richard Rudnicki
• Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis by Jabari Asi
• Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison
• Black, White and Tan by Nicole C. Mullen

Websites/Blogs

• The Witness: A Black Christian Collective
• Talking About Race from the National Museum of African American History & Culture

Watch, Listen, & Think

• Film directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, Just Mercy 
• Documentary Film Directed by Raoul Peck, “I Am Not Your Negro”
• Grace, Justice, & Mercy: An evening with Bryan Stevenson & Tim Keller
• Documentary film, Latino Americans
• Documentary film, Asian Americans
• Documentary film by Ken Burns, The West.
• Documentary film by Blackside, Eyes On the Prize

Organizations

• The Grace DC Institute for Cross-Cultural Mission
• And Campaign
• Be The Bridge
• Equal Justice Initiative