We thank the many CTS members who have helped gather these resources. If you have a resource you would like to add, or if you would like to help edit/update this document, please send an email to ddillon@providence.edu. We welcome any contributions/corrections and are happy to update as needed.

Lists/Collections of Resources

Collection of anti-racism resources

Asians4RacialJustice Resources (the “Racial Justice & Resources Tab” has broad applications)

#BlackCatholicSyllabus curated by Tia Noelle Pratt

Gonzaga's page for mission/BLM (h/t Kevin Brown)

Helpful Books -- Theological

Carter, J. Kameron.  Race: A Theological Account.Oxford University Press, Oxford U.K. ; New York, 2008.

Laurie M. Cassidy and Alex Mikulich (editors), Interrupting White Privilege: Catholic Theologians Speak Out

James H. Cone, A Black Theology of Liberation

Cone, James H. God of the Oppressed.Orbis Books, Maryknoll, N.Y., 1997.

Cone, James H. The Cross and the Lynching Tree. Orbis Books, Maryknoll, N.Y., 2011.

Copeland, M. Shawn. Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being. Fortress Press, 2009. 

Copeland, M. Shawn et al (eds). Uncommon Faithfulness: The Black Catholic Experience. Orbis, 2013.

M. Shawn Copeland, Knowing Christ Crucified: The Witness of African American Religious Experience

M. Shawn Copeland, Discipleship in a Time of Impasse

Davis, Cyprian. The History of Black Catholics in the US. Herder & Herder, 1995.

Davis & Phelps (eds.). “Stamped With the Image of God”: African Americans as God’s Image in Black. Orbis, 2004. 

Douglas, Kelly Brown. The Black Christ. 1993.

Douglas, Kelly Brown.. Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God. Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York, 2015.

Joseph Drexler-Dries, Decolonial Love: Salvation in Colonial Modernit

Katie Grimes, Christ Divided: Antiblackness as Corporate Vice

Diana L. Hayes, Standing in the Shoes My Mother Made: A Womanist Theology

Diana L. Hayes and Cyprian Davis, Taking Down Our Harps: Black Catholics in the United States

 

Jeanine Hill Fletcher, The Sin of White Supremacy: Christianity, Racism, and Religious Diversity in America

 

Jennings, Willie J. The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race. Yale UP. 2011.

Lloyd, Vincent W., and Andrew L. Prevot. Anti-Blackness and Christian Ethics. Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York, 2017.

Massingale, Bryan.  Racial Justice and the Catholic Church 

Pramuk, Christopher Hope Sings, So Beautiful

Prevot, Andrew L. Theology and Race: Black and Womanist Traditions in the United States. Brill, Leiden ; Boston, 2018.

Thurman, Howard. Jesus and the Disinherited 

Townes, Emilie. Embracing the Spirit 

Delores S. Williams, Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk

Helpful books -- Non-theological 

Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Carol Anderson, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

Barbara Applebaum, Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy

Angela Davis, Freedom Is A Constant Struggle

Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility

Ibram Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist 

Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

George Yancy, White Self-Criticality beyond Anti-Racism

Helpful articles

Bryan Massingale’s June 2020 article on white privilege

Joseph S. Flipper, "The Ressourcement of Black Catholicism in Cyprian Davis, OSB,"  Modern Theology, 2019: 1-17.

James Cone, “Whose Earth is it Anyway?” Cross Currents.

Matthew Immergut and Laurel Kearns, “When Nature Is Rats and Roaches: Religious Eco-Justice Activism in Newark, NJ,” Journal for the Study of Religion, Natureand Culture 6, no. 2 (2012): 176-195.

Aruna Gnanadason, “The Integrity of Creation and Earth Community: An Ecumenical Response to Environmental Racism,” Union Seminary Quarterly Review 58, no. 1-2 (2004).

Willie J. Jennings,  “Disfigurations of Christian Identity: Performing Identity as Theological Method,” in Lived Theology: New Perspectives on Method, Style, and Pedagogy (eds. Marsh, Slade, Azaransky), Oxford (2017).

David M. Perry, “What to Do When Nazis are Obsessed with Your Field.” Pacific Standard, Sept. 6, 2017

Christopher M. Bellitto,  “Teaching the Crusades: Religion, Violence, and Mythistory.” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 25 (2018): 159-65

 

Karen Teel, "Getting Out of the Left Lane: the Possibility of White Antiracist Pedagogy."  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/teth.12156

 

Karen Teel, "Whiteness in Catholic Theological Method" https://academic.oup.com/jaar/article-abstract/87/2/401/5482067 

 

Jews, Christians and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern Times 

 

Muslim and Christian Contact in the Middle Ages 

 

The Public Medievalist Special Series: Race, Racism and the Middle Ages  

 

Gonzaga University Flannery Lectures in Catholic Theology (hosted by the Religious Studies Department and the Flannery Chair in Catholic Theology)

• Andrew Prevot, “Unrestricted Love: Blackness and Catholicity as Interrelated Marks of Christian Life”

• Jeanine Hill Fletcher, “Love in a Weighted World: The Broken Heart of Catholic Identity”

• M. Shawn Copeland, “Toward a Mystical-Political Theology of Solidarity”

• Bryan N. Massingale, “Cultured Indifference: The Culture of Racism and Catholic Ethical Reflection”

 

Other Online Articles, Video Presentations, and Blogs

• James H. Cone, “Strange Fruit: The Cross and the Lynching Tree”

• M. Shawn Copeland, “The Disturbing Aesthetics of Race”

• M. Shawn Copeland, “Memory, #BlackLivesMatter, and Theologians”

• M. Shawn Copeland, “Black Theology and a Legacy of Oppression”

• M. Shawn Copeland, “To Follow Jesus”

• M. Shawn Copeland, “The Fierce Urgency of Now”

• M. Shawn Copeland, “Discipleship in a Time of Impasse”

• Jon Nilson, “Confessions of a White Racist Catholic Theologian”

• Bryan N. Massingale, “King and I: Martin Luther King Jr.”

• Bryan N. Massingale, “When Profiling is ‘Reasonable,’ Injustice Becomes Inexcusable”

• Bryan N. Massingale, “Two Nations Under God”

• Bryan N. Massingale, “African American Catholics and the Quest for Racial Justice”

• Bryan N. Massingale, “Ignorance, Indifference, and Fear”

• Bryan N. Massingale, “Let’s Be a Church Where Black Lives Matter”

• Bryan N. Massingale, “The Church’s Appalling silence on Racism”

• Bryan N. Massingale, “How Martin Luther King Jr.’s Prayer Life Moved Him to Act for Justice”

• Bryan N. Massingale, “What Will it Take to Redeem the Soul of America?”

• Bryan N. Massingale, “To Dismantle Racism, We Must Heal the Human Spirit”

• Bryan N. Massingale, “Right and Full Memory, Jesus Tells Us, Is Key to Eternal Life”

• Andrew Prevot, “Race, Roots, and Blood”

• Andrew Prevot, “The Hope of Exodus in Black Theology”

Helpful websites

Dismantling Racism website

Colorlines

Hispanic Theological Initiative Open Plaza

Daily Theology Category Archives: Racism

https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/what-white-people-can-do-for-racial-justice-f2d18b0e0234

 

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/beyond-the-hashtag-how-to-take-anti-racist-action

 

Video--the difference between being non-racist and anti-racist

https://sojo.net/articles/our-white-friends-desiring-be-allies

 

Video--simple explanation of systemic racism in American history

 

https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/

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