In Search of Shalom: A Race & Justice Book Discussion Series

We’re thrilled to share this new InterVarsity reading group welcoming all scholars to discuss what it means to work toward human flourishing in harmony with God and each other. This opportunity is sponsored by our colleagues in InterVarsity’s Black Scholars and Professionals (BSAP) network, part of Graduate and Faculty Ministries (GFM).

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Book/Additional Resource List

September: Introduction to Racial Justice – Why Should We Care as Christians?

• The Very Good Gospel (IVP)
• 5 hours

October: Race and Health

• Michelle Albert (Head of Association of Black Cardiologists)
• The 1619 Project Episode 4: How the Bad Blood Started
• The fullest look yet at the racial inequity of coronavirus (NYT)
• Four allegories on race and racism – Camara Jones Tedx Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNhcY6fTyBM
• David Williams – Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? https://youtu.be/aTIPBQMpF9Y
• PBS – Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? Media and Documents https://unnaturalcauses.org/media_and_documents_video.php or Audio https://unnaturalcauses.org/media_and_documents_audio.php (Camara Jones’ interview)
• https://www-tc.pbs.org/unnaturalcauses/assets/resources/in_sickness_and_wealth_transcript.pdf

November: Education

• Teach Us All (on Netflix) – race and education, goes over issues like the school to prison pipeline, housing discrimination and public schools, segregation
• School Segregation, the Continuing Tragedy of Ferguson – Nikole Hannah Jones
• For white folks that teach in the hood
• Push out: the criminalisation a of black girls in schools
• Savage Inequalities – Jonathan Kozol

December: Incarceration

• Ava DuVernay’s 13th (1hr 40min)
• Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores – Dominique DuBois Gilliard (IVP)
• Additional Resources:
  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness – Michelle Alexander (The New Press)

January: Economic Inequality

• 1619 Project Essay: How America’s Vast Racial Wealth Gap Grew: By Plunder – Trymaine Lee
• Netflix Explained: Racial Wealth Gap (16 min)
• Additional Resources:
  • The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran (Belknap Press 2019)
  • The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the US Racial Wealth Divide by Meizhu Lui, Bárbara Robles, Betsy Leondar-Wright, Rose Brewer, Rebecca Adamson
  • The New Press, 2006
  • 1619 Podcast Episode 2: The Economy that Slavery Built
  • The Color of Law, Rothstein
  • The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap – Matt Taibbi

February: Immigration

• Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion and Truth in the Immigration Debate – Matthew Soerens, Jenny Yang, Leith Anderson (IVP)
• America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States – Erika Lee (Basic Books, 2019)
• (https://www.saltproject.org/progressive-christian-blog/2018/12/5/jesus-was-a-refugee)

March: Wrapping Up, Next Action Steps

• Faith-Rooted Organizing: Mobilizing the Church in Service to the World (Heltzel and Salvatierra) (IVP)

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