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Books

  • Charles Mills – The Racial Contract (Amazon)
  • Charles Mills – Blackness Visible (Amazon)
  • Eduardo Bonilla-Silva – White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-civil Rights Era (Amazon)
  • Eduardo Bonilla-Silva – Racism Without Racists (Amazon)
  • Howard Zinn – A People’s History of the United States (Amazon)
  • Howard Zinn – You Can’t be Neutral on a Moving Train (Amazon)
  • Jim Schutze – The Accommodation (Deep Vellum Publisher)
  • Martin Luther King – Where Do We Go From Here? Chaos or Community (Amazon)
  • Michelle Alexander – The New Jim Crow (Amazon)
  • Michael Phillips – White Metropolis (Amazon); also interviewed on WeTalkDifferent, Episode 94 (link)

Race & Theology

  • Athena Butler – White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America (Amazon)
  • Esau McCaulley – Reading While Black (Amazon)
  • Hollis Phelps – Jesus and the Politics of Mammon (Wipf and Stock)
  • James Cone: The Cross and The Lynching Tree (Amazon)
  • James Perkinson – Rage With A Purpose, Weep Without Regret (JSTOR) (pdf)
  • Jeannie Hill Flether – The Sin of White Supremacy: Christianity, Racism, and Religious Diversity in America (Amazon)
  • Jemar Tisby – Color of Compromise (Amazon)
  • Kristin Kobes Du Mez – Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (Amazon)
  • Mark Knoll – Civil War as a Theological Crisis (Amazon)
  • Michael Emerson and Christian Smith – Divided by Faith (Amazon)
  • Michael Emerson – The Religion of Whiteness: How Racism Distorts Christian Faith (Amazon)
  • Robert P Jones – White Too Long (Amazon)
  • Willie James Jennings – After Whiteness (Amazon)

Standpoint Theory, Feminism, & Race

  • Alison Bailey – The Weight of Whiteness: A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and Ignorance (Rowman Publisher)
  • Donna Haraway – Situated Knowledges (JSTOR) (pdf)
  • Gloria Ladson-Billings – Critical Race Theory – What it is Not! (pdf) (link)
  • Iris Marion Young – Justice and the Politics of Difference (Amazon)
  • Marilyn Frye – Oppression (pdf or public access)
  • Patricia Hill Collins – Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Routledge Publisher)
  • Patricia Hill Collins – The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought (pdf) (jstor)
  • Paula Rothenberg – The Construction, Deconstruction, and Reconstruction of Difference (pdf) (jstor)
  • Peggy McIntosh – White Privilege Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (pdf) (link)
  • Teresa Guess – The Social Construction of Whiteness: Racism by Intent, Racism by Consequence (pdf) (link)

Race & Law

  • Kimberlé Crenshaw – Race, Reform and Retrenchment (Harvard Law Review)
  • Ian Hanley Lopez – White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race (Amazon)
  • Richard Rothstein – Color of Law (Amazon)
  • Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic – Critical Race Theory (Third Edition): An Introduction (Amazon)

Hermeneutics & Interpretation

  • David Tracy – Plurality and Ambiguity (link)
  • Hans-Georg Gadamer – Truth and Method (link)
  • Christian Smith – The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture (link)

Epistemology of Ignorance

  • Boaventura de Sousa Santos, The End of the Cognitive Empire: The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South (Duke University Press)
  • Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Epistemologies of the South Justice Against Epistemicide (Amazon)
  • Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Another Knowledge is Possible: Beyond Northern Epistemologies
  • Charles Mills – Blackness Visible (Cornell University Press)
  • Deborah Heikes – Towards a Liberatory Epistemology (link)
  • José Medina – The Epistemology of Resistance: Gender and Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, and Resistant Imaginations (Amazon)
  • Linda Martín Aloff. “Eurocentrism as an Epistemology of Ignorance” in The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice (Routledge Publisher)
  • Shannon Sullivan and Nancy Tuana – Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance (link)

Understanding Whiteness

Articles on Race

  • Martin Luther King – Letter from a Birmingham Jail (link); also the letter from the 8 clergy men which prompted King to write that letter should be read first (link) (combined pdf)
  • Randall Balmer – The Real Origins of the Religious Right (Politico)
  • Gillian Brockell – The Statue of Liberty was created to celebrate freed slaves, not immigrants, its new museum recounts (Washington Post)

Articles on Epistemology

Media Resources (Videos & Podcasts)

 

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The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.

— Rainer Maria Rilke
About RL Holmes

Born in Detroit
Trained in Savannah
Doctoring in Dallas

Twitter @uthatwhiteguy
Email: ryan@soundsaboutwhite.me