Diversity Resources

This is not, by all means, an exhaustive list of resources, but rather a good starting point. If you have suggestions for additions to this list, please email JBU's diversity committee.

Books

• Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation by LaTasha Morrison
• The Myth of Equality: Uncovering the Roots of Injustice and Privilege by Ken Wytsma
• The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby
• How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice by Jemar Tisby
• America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America by Jim Wallis
• Rethinking Incarceration by Dominique Gilliard
• Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God by Kelly Brown Douglas
• The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone
• The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race by Willie Jennings

Videos

• RightNow Media (subscription required, search "studies on racism and racial reconciliation")
• Is there racism in the church today? Pastor Brian Brodersen from K-wave Radio talks with Dr. Tony Evans on the subject of race and the current state of our nation.
• Race: The Power of an Illusion
• The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
• Eyes on the Prize

Articles

• 75 Things White People Can do for Racial Justice
• Beginning Courageous Conversations About Race, Singleton
• Brave Space Guidelines, AWARE-LA
• Challenging Homophobia, Racism and Other Oppressive Moments, LaFavour
• Common Behavioral Patterns That Perpetuate Relations of Domination, Adair & Howell
• Developing A Liberatory Consciousness, Barbara J. Love
• To Equalize Power Among Us, Adair & Howell
• Interactive Native Land Map
• Beloved Community Equity Audit
• Transforming Institutional Values: Revisited, Dias​
• CCCU Advance Magazine (Spring 2020) “Diversity Matters: Race, Ethnicity and Christian Higher Education” – Featuring 15 articles on a variety of diversity topics in higher education

Podcasts

• Brene Brown interview with professor Ibram Kendi, New York Times bestselling author of "How to Be an Antiracist" and the Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. 
• Pass the Mic
• Truth's Table
• Scene on Radio:  Seeing White
• White Lies
• Code Switch by NPR

Organizations

• Be the Bridge
• Christian Community Development Organization
• The Witness: A Black Christian Collective

Historical Events

• Elaine Massacre
• Tulsa Race Massacre - 99th Anniversary May 31-June 1 [Link 1] [Link 2]