{"id":43194,"date":"2020-06-01T17:15:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T21:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?p=43194"},"modified":"2022-08-03T12:03:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T16:03:21","slug":"dismantling-white-privilege-power-and-supremacy-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/dismantling-white-privilege-power-and-supremacy-reading-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Dismantling White Privilege, Power, and Supremacy: Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following reading list for AY20-21 course STH TC858 “Dismantling White Privilege, Power, and Supremacy” is published courtesy of course co-professors Bishop Susan Hassinger<\/a> and Dean Teddy Hickman-Maynard. Much of the required reading list is available as eBooks through the STH Library for BU students, faculty, and staff\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Required Reading\/Viewing<\/h3>\n
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  • Anzaldua Gloria E. & Analouise Keating, eds.\u00a0This Bridge We Call Home: Radical visions for Transformation <\/em>(Routledge, 2002), pp. 540-576<\/li>\n
  • Barndt, Joseph,\u00a0Becoming an Anti-Racist Church <\/em>(Fortress Press, 2011)<\/li>\n
  • Brown Douglas, Kelley, Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God <\/em>(Orbis Books, 2015)<\/li>\n
  • Coates, Ta-Nehisi, Between the World and Me <\/em>(Spiegel & Grau, 2015)<\/li>\n
  • DiAngelo, Robin, White Fragility: Why It\u2019s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism <\/em>(Beacon Press, 2018)<\/li>\n
  • Dube, Musa W., Power, Privilege and Profits: a Global Reflection <\/em>(speech; on Blackboard Learn)<\/li>\n
  • Hart, Drew G.I., Trouble I\u2019ve Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism <\/em>(Herald Press, 2016)<\/li>\n
  • Harvey, Jennifer, Whiteness and Morality: Pursuing Racial Justice through Reparations and Sovereignty <\/em>(Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)<\/li>\n
  • King, Martin Luther, Jr.<\/em>: Letter from the Birmingham Jail<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Pregeant, Russell, For the Healing of the Nation: A Biblical Vision <\/em>(Cascade Books, 2016)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Recommended Reading and Viewing<\/h3>\n

    African-American, Black Perspectives \u2013 from both African-American writers and others<\/strong><\/p>\n

      \n
    • Davis, Reginal F, The Black Church: Relevant or Irrelevant in the 21st<\/sup> Century <\/em>(Smith & Helwys Publishing, 2010)<\/li>\n
    • Dyson, Michael Eric, Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America <\/em>(St. Martin\u2019s Press, 2017)<\/li>\n
    • Harding, Vincent, There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America <\/em>(A Harvest Book, Harcourt Brace & Company, 1981) \u2013 scholarly history of American slavery beginning from the shores of Africa through the passage of the 13th<\/sup> Amendment to the Constitution by a black scholar, professor, writer, and activist<\/li>\n
    • James, Marlon, \u201cWhy I\u2019m Done Talking about Diversity \u2013 or, Why We Should Try an All-White Diversity Panel\u201d<\/li>\n
    • Lincoln, C. Eric, Race, Religion, and the Continuing American Dilemma, revised edition <\/em>(Hill and Wang, 1999 \u2013 focuses particularly on the role of the black church<\/li>\n
    • Melish, Joanne Pope, Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and \u2018Race\u2019 in New England, 1780-1860)<\/em> Cornell University Press, 1998) \u2013 traces the roots of slavery, abolitionism, and racism in New England \u2013 including treatment of free persons of color<\/li>\n
    • Tatum, Beverly Daniel, PhD, \u201cWhy Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?\u201d and Other Conversations about Race <\/em>(Basic Books, 1997) \u2013 a psychologist explains the development of racial identity<\/li>\n
    • Ward, Jesmyn editor, The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race <\/em>(Scribner, 2017)<\/li>\n
    • West, Cornel, Prophesy Deliverance! An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity <\/em>(Phladelphia, Westminster Press, 1982)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Asian-American Perspectives<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      • Choi, Hee An, A Postcolonial Self: Korean Immigrant Theology and Church<\/em> (SUNY Press, 2015)<\/li>\n
      • Choi, Hee An, Korean Women and God: Experiencing God in a Multi-religious Colonial Context <\/em>(Orbis Books, 2005)<\/li>\n
      • Lee, Jung Young, Marginality: The Key to Multicultural Theology <\/em>(Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995)<\/li>\n
      • Liu, Eric, The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker <\/em>(Vintage Books, 1998) \u2013 essays by a second-generation Chinese-American political commentator & writer<\/li>\n
      • Wu, Frank, Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White <\/em>(Basic books, 2002)<\/li>\n
      • Article in Washington Post: \u201cHow the Asians Became White\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Latinx\/Hispanic Perspectives<\/strong><\/p>\n

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        • Anzaldua, Gloria Evangelina, Borderlands\/LaFrontera: the New Mestiza<\/em> (aunt lute books, 1999, 4th<\/sup> ed.<\/li>\n
        • Anzaldua, Gloria E. & Keating, Analouise, eds., This Bridge We Call Home: Radical isions for Transformation <\/em>(Routledge, 2002)<\/li>\n
        • Reyes, Patrick B., Nobody Cries When We Die: God, Community, and Surviving to Adulthood <\/em>(Chalice Press, 2016)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Biblical, Theological, & Ethics Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

            \n
          • Cone, James H., The Cross and the Lynching Tree <\/em>(Orbis Books, 2011)<\/li>\n
          • Felder, Cain Hope, Troubling Biblical Waters: Race, Class and Family <\/em>(Orbis Books, 1989 \u2013 a study of the scriptures, with a re-examination of the place of blacks in the Bible, as well as mandates for justice<\/li>\n
          • Myers, Ched, Marie Dennis, Joseph Nangle O.F.M., Cynthia Moe-Loebeda, & Stuart Taylor, Say to This Mountain: Mark\u2019s Story of Discipleship <\/em>(Orbis Books, 1996)<\/li>\n
          • Rieger, Joerg, Globalization and Theology <\/em>(Abingdon Press, 2010)<\/li>\n
          • Thurman, Howard, Jesus and the Disinherited<\/em><\/li>\n
          • West, Traci C., Disruptive Christian Ethics: When Racism and Women\u2019s Lives Matter <\/em>(Westminster John Knox Press, 2006) \u2013 focusing on the intersection of racism and women\u2019s subjugation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

            General, Related to US History, Culture and Contemporary Reality<\/strong><\/p>\n

              \n
            • Alexander, Michelle, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness <\/em>(The New Press, 2012)<\/li>\n
            • Blum, Edward J. & Paul Harvey, The Color of Christ:\u00a0 the Sons of God and the Saga of Race in America <\/em>(The University of North Carolina Press, 2012)<\/li>\n
            • Goza, Joel Edward, America\u2019s Unholy Ghosts: The Racist Roots of Our Faith and Politics <\/em>(Cascade Books, 2019)<\/li>\n
            • Haney Lopez, Ian, Dog WhistlePolitics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class <\/em>\u00a0(Oxford University Press, 2014)<\/li>\n
            • Harvey, Jennifer, Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children I a Racially Unjust America <\/em>(Abingdon Press, 2017)<\/li>\n
            • Lowen, James W., Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong <\/em>(A Touchstone Book, Simon & Schuster, 1999)<\/li>\n
            • Lowen, James W., Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong <\/em>\u00a0(A Touchstone Book, Simon & Schuster, 1995)<\/li>\n
            • Takaki, Ronald, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America <\/em>(Little, Brown and Company, 1993)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

              Personal Perspectives, Memoirs, Fiction, Poetry, Prayers, Movies<\/strong><\/p>\n

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              • Angelou, Maya, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings<\/em><\/li>\n
              • Angelou, Maya, The Heart of a Woman<\/em><\/li>\n
              • Baldwin, James, The Fire Next Time (<\/em>Dell Publishing, 1963)<\/li>\n
              • Bernard, Emily, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother\u2019s Time, My Mother\u2019s Time, and Mine <\/em>(Alfred A. Knopf, 2019)<\/li>\n
              • Douglass, Frederick, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave \u2013 written by Himself \u2013 1845 <\/em>(published by Barnes & Noble, 2002)<\/li>\n
              • Hurston, Zora Neale (ed. Alice Walker), I Love Myself \u2013 When I A Laughing \u2013 and Then Again When I am Looking Mean and Impressive <\/em>(The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1979)<\/li>\n
              • Irving, Debby, Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race <\/em>(Elephant Room Press, 2014)<\/li>\n
              • Jarrett-Schell, Peter, Seeing My Skin: (A Story of Wrestling with Whiteness) <\/em>(Church Publishing Incorporated, 2019)<\/li>\n
              • Johnson, James Weldon, God\u2019s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse <\/em>(Viking Press, 1927)<\/li>\n
              • Kidd, Sue Monk, The Invention of Wings <\/em>(Penguin Books, 2014)<\/li>\n
              • King, Martin Luther, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail<\/em><\/li>\n
              • King, Martin Luther, Jr., A Gift of Love: Sermons from \u201cStrength to Love\u201d and Other Preachings <\/em>(Beacon Press, 1981)<\/li>\n
              • Wise, Tim, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son (the Remix: Revised and Updated Edition) <\/em>Soft Kull Press, an Imprint of Counterpoint, 2008, 2011.<\/li>\n
              • Movie: Harriet\u00a0 (about Harriet Tubman)\u00a0 <\/em>2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                Countering Racism and White Privilege\/Power\/Supremacy (& intersections of oppression)<\/strong><\/p>\n

                  \n
                • Billings, David, Deep Denial: The Persistence of White Supremacy in United States History and Life <\/em>(Crandall, Dostie & Douglass Books, Inc., 2016)<\/li>\n
                • DeGruy, Dr. Joy, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America\u2019s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing <\/em>(Joy DeGruy Publications, 2017)<\/li>\n
                • DeLeon-Hartshorn, Iris, Tobin Miller Sharer, & Stoltzfus, Regina Shands, Set Free: A Journey Toward Solidarity Against Racism (<\/em>Herald Press, 2001)<\/li>\n
                • Eberhardt, Jennifer L., PhD, Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do <\/em>(Viking, 2019)<\/li>\n
                • Frankenburg, Ruth, The Social Construction of Whiteness: white women, race matters <\/em>(University of Minnesota Press, 1993)<\/li>\n
                • Ivory, Luther D., Toward a Theology of Radical Involvement: The Theological Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. <\/em>(Abingdon Press, 1997)<\/li>\n
                • Robinson, Randall, The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks, <\/em>(A Dutton Book, 2000)<\/li>\n
                • Shearer, Jody Miller, Enter the River: Healing Steps from White Privilege toward Racial Reconciliation <\/em>(Herald Press, 1994)<\/li>\n
                • Stevenson, Bryan, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption <\/em>(New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2014)\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n
                • Thandeka, Learning to Be White <\/em>(Continuum, 2002)<\/li>\n
                • Tochluk, Shelly, Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It <\/em>(2nd<\/sup> edition) (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2010)<\/li>\n
                • Villanueva, Edgar, Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance <\/em>(Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                  Perspectives on Communication & Dealing with Cross-Racial, Cross-Cultural Settings in Faith Communities<\/strong><\/p>\n

                    \n
                  • Kondrath, William M., God\u2019s Tapestry: Understanding and Celebrating Differences <\/em>(Alban Institute, 2008)<\/li>\n
                  • McSpadden, Lucia Ann, Meeting God at the Boundaries: Cross-Cultural \u2013 Cross-Racial Appointments <\/em>(General Board of Higher Education & Ministry, The United Methodist Church, 2003)<\/li>\n
                  • McSpadden, Lucia Ann, Meeting God at the Boundaries, A Manual for Church Leaders <\/em>(General Board of Higher Education & Ministry, the United Methodist Church, 2003)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                    The following reading list for AY20-21 course STH TC858 “Dismantling White Privilege, Power, and Supremacy” is published courtesy of course co-professors Bishop Susan Hassinger and Dean Teddy Hickman-Maynard. Much of the required reading list is available as eBooks through the STH Library for BU students, faculty, and staff\u00a0here.\u00a0 Required Reading\/Viewing Anzaldua Gloria E. & Analouise […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[200,203],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43194"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50498,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43194\/revisions\/50498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}