This document was compiled by the Student Center for Reconciliation. It is intended to serve as a resource to individuals interested in engaged allyship and committed to deepening their anti-racist knowledge and work.
Why Do All the Black Kids Sit Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD. (E-Book available through APU library system)
Reading the Bible from the Margins by Miguel de la Torre
Privilege, Power, and Difference by Alan Johnson
But I Don't See You as Asian: Curating Conversations About Race by Bruce Reyes-Chow
Reconciliation Blues: A Black Evangelical's Inside View of White Christianity by Edward Gilbreath
The Origin of Races and Color by Martin R. Delany
Pondering Privilege by Jody Wiley Fernando
The God of Life by Gustavo Gutiérrez
Roadmap to Reconciliation by Brenda Salter McNeil
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone
No One is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S. - Mexico Border, by Justin Akers Chacón and Mike Davis (E-Book available through APU library system)
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
Uprooting Racism by Paul Kivel
Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery by Na’im Akbar
God of the Oppressed by James Cone
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Joy DeGruy
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X.
Slavery to Mass Incarceration,a five-minute video, narrated by Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative, that concisely contextualizes mass incarceration as an evolution of slavery.