Resources
Learn more about racism, slavery and Reparations and what other organizations are doing in these areas.
Who Is Doing The Work
This has group and individual racial study resources from the United Methodist Church, General Commission on Religion and Race. One of these is “Living Out Our Calling”.
UCC (United Church of Christ) White Privilege: Let's Talk study.
The story of slavery at The Whitney Plantation.
dRworksBook
The Dismantling Racism Works web workbook.
Books
Look for these and others on Bookshop.org.
Baradaran, Meehrsa. The Racial Wealth Gap: A Brief History: W. W. Norton & Company, 1925
Brook, Daniel. The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2019
Brown, Dorothy. Getting to Reparations: How Building a Different America Requires a Reckoning with Our Past: Crown Publishing, 2026
Cha-Jua, Sundiata Keita, ed. Berry, Mary Frances, ed. Franklin, V. P. ed. Reparations and Reparatory Justice: Past, Present, and Future Reparation and Reparatory Justice: Past, Present, and Future: University of Illinois, 2024
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me: One World, 2015
Cross, Christina J. Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist Between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families: Harvard University Press, 2025
Darity, William A. and A. Kirsten Mullen. From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century: University of North Carolina Press, 2020
Diangelo, Robin. Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm: Beacon Press, 2021
Diangelo, Robin. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism: Beacon Press, 2018
Goza, Joel Edward. Rebirth of a Nation: Reparations and Remaking America: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, 2024
Hannah-Jones, Nikole. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story: One World, 2021
Jarrett-Schell, Peter. Reparations: A Plan for Churches: Church Publishing, 2023
Jones, Robert P. The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future: Simon & Schuster, 2023
Kendi, Ibram X. How to Be an Antiracist: One World, 2019
Kendi, Ibram X., Blain, Keisha N. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019: One World, 2021
Magee, Rhonda V. The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness: Penguin Random House, 2019
Major, Barbara Crain and Barndt, Joseph. Deconstructing Racism: A Path Toward Lasting Change: Fortress Press, 2023
McGhee, Heather. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together: One World, 2021
Menakem, Resma A. My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies: Central Recovery Press, 2017
Montero, David. The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations: Legacy Lit, 2024
Obear, Kathy. …But I’m Not Racist!: Tools for Well-Meaning Whites: The Difference Press, 2017
Rose, Tricia. Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives- and How We Break Free: Basic Books, 2024
Singh, Anneliesse A. The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism & Engage in Collective Healing: New Harbinger Publications, Inc., 2019
Smith, Clint. How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America: Little, Brown, and Company, 2021
Tisby, Jemar. How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey toward Racial Justice: Zondervan, 2021
Tisby, Jemar. The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church’s Complicity in Racism: Zondervan, 2019
Wilkerson, Isabel. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents: Random House, 2020
Williams, Justin Michael, Tygielski, Shelly. how we ended racism: Realizing a New Possibility in One Generation: Sounds True, 2023