Organizations and other Communities
http://www.ncmslc.org: multicultural student leadership conference.
Intentional Communities
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Book & Print Resources
More Than Equals: Racial Healing:
By: Spencer Perkins and Chris Rice
(PUBInterVarsity)''Racial division and the church's silent complicity reveals a 'disabled gospel,'---strong enough to save but too weak to reconcile. The authors contend we can bridge racial barriers by building Christian relationships across them,''---
Breaking Down Walls: A Model for Reconciliation in a Age of Racial Strife
By: Raleigh Washington Glen Kehrein
The walls of hostility between races are real, and need to be torn down and destroyed, according to Raleigh Washington and Glen Kehrein, founders of Rock Church and Circle Urban Ministries. Taking the New Testament call to break down the walls of hostility seriously, these two men, from divergent backgrounds, offer the possibility of true reconciliation between the races.
Dismantling Racism
By: J. Barndt
This book does not intend to attack or to produce guilt, but its message is tough and demanding. It begins by analyzing racism as it is today and the ways it has changed or not changed over the past few decades. Most important, the book focuses on the task of dismantling racism, how we can work to bring it to an end and build a racially just, multiracial, multicultural society.
All God's Children: A Biblical Critique of Racism
By: Steven McKenzie
Racism is as contemporary a problem as the church burnings on the nightly television news, but it is not a new problem. A century ago, many people used the Bible to defend racist beliefs and practices. Now, Steven McKenzie insists that the Bible's true message leads Christians away from the evils of racism and narrowness of bigotry to God's vision of humanity, free from racial division.
Coming Together: The Bible's Message in an Age of Diversity
By: Curtiss Paul Deyoung
Building on the insights of scholars from the major cultural and racial groups around the world, the author explores the cultural diversity found within the pages of the Bible. If you've ever wondered what the Bible says about such injustices as racism, sexism, and classism, then this book will be an essential addition to your library.
Healing the Wounds, Winning the Harvest: Race and Reconciliation, Spirit-Filled Life Kingdom Dynamics Study Guides
By: Jack Hayford
God wants us to celebrate our ethnic diversity within the unity of His one people, which overcomes all divisions among Christians, including racism. From helping us see forms of racial pride and their harmful effects to nurturing a cross-cultural ministry, "Race and Reconciliation" focuses on God's call for the church to be in daily life what it already is in Christ--reconciled and unified. This guide charts a course through repentance, reconciliation, healing, and effective ministry together. Includes practical ways to heal wounds caused by prejudice because of skin color and/or cultural background. The writers are pastors of a multi-racial congregation who have experienced firsthand the process they recommend
Ending Racism in the Church
By: Susan Davies
"From the Publisher:" Presents case studies of churches or community agencies working to end racism, and includes discussions from diverse scholars and practioners who describe the subtle ways in which racism undermines the gospel's thrust.
One Blood: the Biblical Answer to Racism
By: Ken Ham Carl Wieland Dan Batten
The Bible says in Acts 17:26 that God has "made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth." So, is there really such a thing as "the white race" or "the black race"? You will be astounded at the easy-to-understand scientific facts, and how they line up with the often-overlooked simplicity of God's Word.
Winning the Race to Unity: Is Racial Reconciliation Really Working
By: Clarence Shuler
There is a tension in this country between the races, and sadly, it is no difference in the body of Christ. It has been said that Sunday morning is the most segregated hour of the week. Why are we missing the mark? Because we have not taken seriously our Savior's instruction to love our neighbor as ourselves. We have not been willing to serve each other. Clarence Shuler discusses the seen and unseen prejudices that lurk on all sides of the issue. Speaking both to white and black Christians, he lays out the problems without pretense and suggest practical and biblical ways to solve them.
Enter the River: Healing Steps from White Privilege Toward Racial Reconciliation
By: Jody Shearer
Shearer explores definitions of prejudice and racism, the different effects of racism on white persons and people of color, affirmative action, and many other issues. The accessible presentation provides a strong foundation for study and action.
LET THE WALLS FALL DOWN
By: Bishop Phillip Porter
Experience the power of reconciliation when you let the walls fall down! In this motivational book, Porter shares practical steps to help you become a "bridge builder" who spans the racial and denominational gaps between you and others. He'll show you that a more fulfilling, successful life awaits you on the other side of your walls. 200 pages, softcover from Creation.
The Hispanic Challenge: Opportunities Confronting the Church
By: Manuel Ortiz
Ortiz first explores the unique needs and concerns of Hispanics in the United States . Then he turns to key missiological issues, including Protestant-Catholic relationships, justice, racial reconciliation and ecclesiastical structures. The book focuses on leadership training, education, and contains interviews with Hispanic leaders which describe their models of ministry.
Cross-Cultural Conflict: Building Relationships for Effective Ministry
By: Duane Elmer
With a particular focus on Asian and Hispanic cultures (at home and around the world) and on African culture, Duane Elmer walks readers through various types of conflict and shows how they can be handled effectively and appropriately.
Peace Is the Way: Writings on Nonviolence from the Fellowship of Reconciliation
By: Edited by Walter Wink
These sixty original and classic essays cover the theory, practice, and spirituality of nonviolence, as well as document the struggle for racial justice and the cause of reconciliation. Together they offer a comprehensive and inspiring chronicle of the global movement for peace, ideal for students, activists, and all who wish to share in building a more just and peaceful world.
A Mighty Long Journey Description: Edited by Timothy George and Robert Smith Jr .
This is a collection of essays, sermons, and speeches chronicling the journey to racial reconciliation in the American Church . Writers and pastors from various backgrounds reflect on the state of affairs of race relations in the church, the sins of the past, repentance in the present, and redemption for the future. Moving and inspiring, revealing and honest, these reflections will contribute a balm of healing to weary travelers and a well of inspiration for those joining the journey.
Separate No More
By: Norman Anthony Peart
Offers practical insight into how churches and individuals can become active participants in the ministry of racial reconciliation.
Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
By: Michael Emerson Christian Smith
In recent years, America 's evangelical movement has brought its characteristic passion to the problem of race, notably in the Promise Keepers movement and in reconciliation theology. But the authors of this new study reveal that despite their good intentions, evangelicals may actually be preserving America 's racial chasm.
Letters Across the Divide
By: David Anderson, Brent Zuercher
In this stirring book, two friends--a black minister and a white businessman--discuss candidly the hang-ups, stereotypes, and sins that inhibit interracial friendships. Some people may think that racism is no longer a problem in our society, but David Anderson and Brent Zuercher make an effective case for just the opposite: both blacks and whites still harbor wrong assumptions and resentments toward each other. Believing that the church is called to a deeply felt reconciliation between the races, Anderson and Zuercher strive to understand each other. They hash out their differences, giving voice to feelings most of us have had but would never express out loud. The result is a book that provokes thought, arouses emotion, and ultimately spurs action, stressing that the most effective way of dealing with the many facets of racial reconciliation is through real and connected friendships.
Prejudice and the People of God
By: A. Charles Ware
An experienced voice discusses the long avoided issue of racism in the church. The multiculturalism of recent years shows the world's growing awareness that, although we are different, we wought to appreciate one another's diversity and achieve unity in a shrinking global environment. But the world's best attempts at unity are doomed to fail, says Dr. Charles Ware, president of a growing multiethnic Christian college, because the foundation is unstable. The Bible has the answers to interracial tensions-but we've done a poor job of finding and practicing them. The church, which ought to demonstrate unity, is instead torn by racial division. What does God have to say about race relationships? This book traces the history of misunderstandings behind racism, examines the biblical model for reconciliation, and describes the role of love in the church and community.
No Partiality: The Idolatry of Race and the New Humanity
By: Douglas Sharp
No Partiality: The Idolatry of Race and the New Humanity is about how we make sense of race and racism. The phrase "make sense" is being used in its literal meaning: how we manufacture ideas and practices on the basis of the stimulation of our senses. Race and racism are not only concepts that have been made by human beings, but are also the principal way we in the U.S. have made sense of ourselves and others. In this way Douglas Sharp sets the stage for his analysis of how our language of race has evolved and how it has built a world of racism. He moves then to theoretical constructions of race, including its psychological, sociopolitical and socioeconomic dimensions. Race, Sharp argues, is an idol. In his book, he weaves together the themes he has developed into a model for building a theology of racial reconciliation for a new humanity.
United By Faith: The Multi-racial Congregation
By: Curtiss Paul DeYoung
In the last four decades, desegregation has revolutionized almost every aspect of life in the United States: schools, businesses, government offices, even entertainment. But there is one area that remains largely untouched, and that is the church. Now comes a major new call for multiracial congregations in every possible setting--a call that is surprisingly controversial, even in the twenty-first century.
GRACE MATTERS
By: Chris P. Rice
In 1981, white college student Chris Rice thought he would take a few months off from his studies to volunteer at the famed Voice of Calvary ministry in a tough urban neighborhood in Jackson, Mississippi. There he met Spencer Perkins--eldest son of John Perkins, legendary African American evangelist and civil rights movement activist--and was forever changed. Chris and Spencer struggled with each other and in the larger Antioch community. The ultimate resolution came not through working harder or searching more diligently for a way forward but through a profound gift of God's grace. This very personal, at times painful memoir is not only a story of racial reconciliation but also of a friendship that traversed in what Chris and Spencer called a "culture of grace."
Living in Color: Embracing God's Passion for Diversity
By: Randy Woodley , John Dawson
Living in Color exposes the history of racism and ethnocentricity that afflict our nations and churches today. A Keetoowah Cherokee, Randy Woodley provides fascinating insight into Native American culture and a biblical model for racial reconciliation and healing of all people. Above all, this book celebrates God's beautiful plan to reveal Himself through every unique individual, family and culture.
The Gospel in Black & White: Theological Resources for Racial Reconciliation
By:Dennis L. Okholm (Editor)
Some of the church's most exciting black and white thinkers here address issues of theological method, hermeneutics, soteriology, ecclesiology, and social ethics with an eye to closing the gaping wounds of racism and serving God's kingdom across color lines.
One Church, Many Tribes : Following Jesus the Way God Made You
By:Richard Twiss , John Dawson
In this captivating chronicle of the Native American story, Rosebud Lakota Sioux Richard Twiss sifts through myth and legend to reveal God's strategy for the world's First Peoples. With wit, wisdom and passion, Twiss shows God's desire to use the cultures of First Nations peoples-in all their mystery, color and beauty-to break through to those involved in new age mysticism, eastern religions-even Islam.
Audio and Audiobooks
Breaking Down Walls - Audiobook
By: Raleigh Washington
Raleigh Washington and Glen Kehrein show us where and how to start the reconciliation process between the races. In The first tape, you'll learn what prejudice feels like, first hand. You'll also catch Coach Bill McCartney's vision for unity within the body of Christ. Then in tape two, you'll find great hope as you listen to the eight principles of racial reconciliation. Principles you can build into all your relationships, right away. Learn how to build and maintain solid relationships, right away. Learn how to build and maintain solid relationships with yor Asian, African, Hispanic, White, and Native American brothers. 2 Cassettes, 180 minutes
Dominion - Audiobook
By: Randy Alcorn
When a shocking murder drags him into the disorienting world of inner-city gangs and radical conflict, columnist Clarence Abernathy desperately seeks answers to the violence and to his own struggles with race and faith. Encouraged by fellow columnist Jake Woods (the main character from Randy Alcorn's bestseller Deadline), Clarence forges an unlikely partnership with redneck homicide detective Ollie Chandler. Despite their differences, the two find themselves united in their fight against the powers of darkness vying for Dominion. Filled with insight, and with characters so real you'll never forget them, this bestseller is a dramatic story of spiritual searching, racial reconciliation, and hope. 9 hours on 6 cassettes. Read by Frank Muller
Videos/Movies
Africans in America (Series)
Distributed by : PBS Video (1998)
This four-part series examines the history of American slavery from its birth in the early 1600s to the beginning of its end at the onset of the Civil War in 1860. In addition to photographs and scholarly commentary, Africans in America uses actors to read first-person accounts (4 hrs. 52 min.)
Black and White in Exile
Distributed by: Edge Video (1997)
This six-part documentary chronicles the experiences of Cuban and Haitian exiles in the United States since the 1960s. Using photojournalistic images, Black and White in Exile deals with the complex themes of assimilation and the often divisive issues of immigration, especially when race and politics collide. The series explores several subjects, including the quest for equity in terms of government treatment of each group; economic opportunities and achieving political power; and interracial and cross-cultural hostility, followed by cooperation and ultimately coalition.
Blue Eyed
Distributed by California Newsreel (1993)
A day after Martin Luther King's assassination in 1968, Iowa schoolteacher Jane Elliott introduced an audacious experiment in her third-grade class designed to expose white children to the trauma of racial discrimination. For the next 28 years, Elliott used this acclaimed blue-eyed/brown-eyed exercise in antiracist training for schools, universities and corporations. This video offers viewers the chance to observe a full-length workshop. Viewers join 40 participants _ teachers, police officers, school administrators and social workers who are black, white, Hispanic, male and female _ in an intensive encounter session. (93 min.)
The Color of Fear
Distributed by: StirFry Seminars & Consulting (1994)
Eight North American men of Asian, European, Latino, African-American and Native American backgrounds gather under the direction of seminar leader Lee Mun Wah to discuss racism. In emotional and often heated exchanges, the participants challenge the privileged status of white Americans and recount their anguished experiences with discrimination. (90 min.)
Facing Racism
Distributed by: Films for the Humanities and Sciences (1996 )
This video is from the four-part Making Peace series focusing on 11 people who work neighbor-to-neighbor to heal the conditions that create violence in American communities. In this concluding segment, five individuals (white, Jewish, African-American, Latino and Asian) track their progress through an intensive three-day workshop in Berkeley, California, called Unlearning Racism. (57 min.)
Family Name
Distributed by: First Run/Icarus (1997)
As a white child attending school in Durham, North Carolina, Macky Alston thought it curious that many of his African-American classmates shared his last name. It was not until his father, a minister and civil rights leader, finally gave him a book about the history of the Alston family that Macky learned the disquieting facts about the Alston's slave-owning past. This first-person documentary tracks Macky's efforts to disinter long-buried secrets and establish familial connections between the white and African-American branches that bear the Alston name.
(89 min.)
Foreign Talk
Distributed by: National Asian American Telecommunications Association (1993)
This video recounts the experiences of a young Chinese-American woman as she encounters the hostility of two black men. Foreign Talk takes the form of conversation between the young woman and the men who encounter each other on a train in San Francisco, shortly after the Rodney King/Los Angeles rebellions. Their exchange first shows the tensions between two cultures, then reveals thought-provoking possibilities for human relationships.
Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley Street
Distributed by: New Day Films ( 1996)
At the end of World War II, once-prosperous Dudley Street in the Dorchester/Roxbury section of Boston underwent a steady economic decline. White flight to the suburbs, abandonment and red-lining by banks all played a role. Frustrated by decades of ineffectual governing, African-American, Latino, Cape Verdean and European-American residents united to revitalize their community. This inspirational documentary is both a cautionary tale of urban policies turned sour and a how-to manual on community activism. (58 min.)
Homecoming: Sometimes I am Haunted by Memories of Red Dirt and Clay
Distributed by: California Newsreel (1998)
This story of African-American land loss chronicles the history of black farmers from the Civil War to the present. The documentary examines land ownership and rural economics in the South. It records the struggles of blacks for land of their own, pitting them against both Southern whites and the federal agencies responsible for helping them. (56 min.)
Not In Our Town
Distributed by: The Working Group ( 1995)
Documentary about the people of Billings, Montana who joined together to stand up for Native American, African-American and Jewish neighbors who were under attack by white supremacists. Believing that "If a community doesn't respond, then the community accepts" racism, Billings residents moved into action and took a stand in response to a series of hate crimes. (27 min.)
Sa-I-gu
Distributed by: National Asian American Telecommunications Association (1993)
Shown from the perspective of Korean women shopkeepers, this video is about the April 29, 1992 riots in Los Angeles after four white police officers accused in the beating of Rodney King, a black man, received a verdict of "not guilty." Sa-I-Gu (literally April 29) explores the embittering effects of the riots on these shopkeepers, who suffered more than half of the billion dollars in material losses. Interviews conducted three months later portray their experiences and feelings about the rioting and their relations with blacks. (39 min)
Skin Deep
Distributed by: California Newsreel (1995)
Filmmaker Frances Reid follows a diverse group of students from the University of Massachusetts, Texas A & M, Chico State and U.C. Berkeley as they participate in an intensive three-day racial awareness workshop in northern California. In the documentary the students interact in group sessions that challenge deeply held attitudes about race. It also accompanies the participants back to their respective campuses and to their homes in an attempt to understand why they think the way they do. (53 min.)
True Colors
Distributed by: Corvision Media, Inc. (1996)
To test levels of prejudice based on skin color, ABC's Prime Time host Diane Sawyer follows two friends, college-educated men in their mid-30s, one black and one white, through a variety of everyday situations. Using a hidden camera, the film explores their experiences. Pretending to be new in town, John and Glen separately try to rent an apartment, answer an ad for a job, buy a car and shop. The video chronicles the disturbing differences in the way they are treated in identical situations. (19 min.)
