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Books
New books are available through Quaker bookstores, if not in your local store. Friends General Conference publishes and sells books: http://www.quakerbooks.org/new-books
Bacon, Margaret Hope. Sarah Mapps Douglass: Faithful Attender of Quaker Meeting: View from the back bench. Philadelphia, PA: Quaker Press of FGC. 2003.
Barndt, Joseph. Dismantling Racism: The Continuing Challenge to White America. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress. 1991. The author is a pastor and co director of a program that works to dismantle racism. He addresses the scope of racism, challenges the church, and outlines a vision for moving forward.
Bordewich, Fergus, Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America. Amistad/HarperCollins. 2005. Brings in long-buried sources of information; story of a bi/multi-racial movement.
Brown, Charles K, III. Pray and Pay Attention or How to Enjoy Meeting for Business. Melbourne Beach, FL: SEYM Michener Memorial Fund. 1991. The author was presiding clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting during the late 1960s when Meetings in Philadelphia were challenged by the black community to assist the black economic development of the city. He shares the experience, referring to journal entries made at the time, and by doing so, offers an example of clerking in a difficult situation.
Dalton, Harlan. Racial Healing: Confronting the Fear Between Blacks and Whites. New York: Doubleday. 1995. The author encourages races not to remain estranged, but to put everything on the table about differences. He uses as an example his own assumptions of black and white and invites others similarly.
de Leon-Hartshorn, Iris, Tobin Miller Shearer, and Regina Shands Stoltzfus. Set Free: a journey toward solidarity against racism. Scottsdale, PA: Herald Press. 2001. Three authors share their experiences. They are Mennonite, and are also active with a program to assist the exploration of racism, and they are ethnically diverse.
Feagin, Joe R. Systemic Racism: A Theory of Oppression. New York: Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group. 2006. The author teaches and writes on racism. This book presents in scholarly and personal terms a systems theory of racism, with a review of history, and pointing to stories that repeat the systemic patterns of old.
Harding, Vincent. There Is A River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers. 1981. A must-read perspective on the history of Blacks in America, for once not told from the White perspective.
Hitchcock, Jeff. Lifting the White Veil: An Examination of White American Culture in a Multiracial Context. Roselle, NJ: Crandall, Dostie and Douglas Books. 2002. The author is a Plainfield New Jersey Quaker (New York Yearly Meeting) with a longtime commitment to working for racial justice.
Ignatiev, Noel. How The Irish Became White. New York: Routledge, 1995.
James, David and Jillian Wychel. Loving the Distances between: Racism, Culture and Spirituality. Alderley, Queensland, Australia: Margaret Fell Quaker Booksellers and Publishers, The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia, 1991. The authors are New Zealand Anglo Friends who were active with their Yearly Meeting in the 1980s national focus on integrating the indigenous peoples of New Zealand with the Anglo culture people who have power. This is a moving account of the learning they experienced.
Jaspin, Eliot. Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America. New York: Basic Books. 2007. This courageous piece of research documents how, during the last century, the Black populations of a number of places in this country were expelled by Whites from the counties where they had lived. The last chapter is a moving testimony of hope. It tells the story of a Forsythe county Georgia White family's commitment to racial justice and equality through four generations of women, from the time one of them was raped and killed early this century, to witnessing the lynching of black men who were blamed for the crime, and the subsequent expulsion of Blacks from that county, until the present day, when two of them who live in Haddonfield, NJ carry of the legacy of teaching racial justice and tolerance.
Jensen, Robert. The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White privilege. San Francisco, CA: City Lights Publishers. 2005.
Julye, Vanessa. The Seed Cracked Open: Growing Beyond Racism. Philadelphia: Quaker Press of Friends General Conference. 2006. Based on Vanessa Julye’s keynote address given at New York Yearly Meeting July 25, 2005, Silver Bay, New York, this short publication shares personal stories and history in an invitation to others to be open to growth and change in relation to racism.
Julye, Vanessa and Donna McDaniel. Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship. Scheduled. Chronicles the relationship between Friends of European descent, and Friends and non-Friends of African descent.
Kivel, Paul. Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice. Gabriola Island, British Columbia: New Society Press. 2002. Author works with men and boys in Oakland. He draws on this experience and experience of being Jewish to present his thinking on ways to recognize privilege and actively work to build awareness and sensitivity to racism.
Kochman, Thomas. Black and White Styles in Conflict. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 1983. A professor of communication addresses the difference in observed styles of conflict between blacks and whites, and the resulting assumptions of behavior that may need rethinking.
Lipsitz, George. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 1998.
McIntosh, Peggy. White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies. Working Paper Series No. 189, Wellesley, MA: Center for Research on Women, Wellesley College. 1988. An excellent aid in helping White people understand their White privilege.
Polacco, Patricia. Pink and Say. New York: Philomel Books, a div. of Puttnam & Grosset. 1994. Pink and Say is the true story of two Union soldiers--one black and one white--during the U.S.Civil War and how they develop a friendship and stick together. The book has a picture book format, with moving illustrations. There are lesson plans and other aids available (check on the web), to add and enhance readers' experiences. This is a worthy read for adults as well as youth.
Rutstein, Nathan. Healing Racism in America: A Prescription for the Disease. Springfield, MA: Whitcomb Publishing, Inc. 1993. The author writes from his experience, and is a founder of the Institutes for the Healing of Racism. This approach is presented by the author from his own experience. He reviews the results of racism and offers some ideas about what is at stake, and what people can do.
Tatum, Beverly Daniel. Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? New York: Basic Books. 1999. The author, a psychologist, writes about why it is necessary for Black adolescents to support each other in developing a sense of belonging.
Takaki, Ronald. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. Boston: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company. 1993. This is the history we should have been taught in school, but most likely weren’t.
Thandeka. Learning To Be White: Money, Race and God in America. New York: Continuum International Publishing. 2002. The author is a Unitarian Universalist minister and is African American. Some of her observations are unique. Her writing is based on her research, and offers the view that being white is a cultural learning experience. She challenges whites to work on the invisibility of their condition.
Tinker, George F. The Gospel and Native American Cultural Genocide. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993. The author was the first speaker at the Pendle Hill Monday Night Forum series on "Justice Across the Racial Divide", in 2002 - 2003.
Wise, Tim. White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son. New York: Soft Skull Press. 2005. Writing in an almost conversational style, Tim Wise courageously addresses what it means to be white in America.
Wu, Frank H. Yellow. Race in America Beyond Black and White. New York: Basic Books. 2002. The author is professor of law at Howard University in Washington, DC.
