Books for Adults
My Grandmother’s Hands– Resmaa Menakem
The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World Paperback – Desmond Tutu , Mpho Tutu
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness – Austin Channing Brown
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness – Michelle Alexander
Dear Church : A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US – Lenny Duncan
The Police Killings No One Is Talking About – Stephanie Woodard
Decolonizing Antiracism – Bonita Lawrence and Enakshi Dua
Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism, Second Edition- Rosalind S. Chou and Joe R. Feagin
Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama- Diane C. Fujino
War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony – Nelson A Denis
A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn
White Privilege Books
Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race – Debby Irving
Me and White Supremacy : Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor- Layla Saad, Robin Diangelo
White Fragility : Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism – Robin DiAngelo
Citizen: An American Lyric – Claudia Rankine
Podcasts- Videocasts
Seeing White – Podcast
Town Hall: Listening to Latino/a/x Lutheran Faith Leaders
Nativity LGBTQ+ Family Week Videos
ELCA Ethnic Ministry Strategic Plans
• Strategy Toward Authentic Diversity
• Declaration of the ELCA to People of African Descent
• American Indian and Alaska Native Strategic Plan
• African Descent Strategic Plan
• Arab and Middle East Strategic Plan
• Asian and Pacific Islander Strategic Plan
• Latino Strategic Plan
• Many Voices Tell the Story