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
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
- Joe Feagin – The White Racial Frame: Centuries of Racial Framing and Counter-Framing (Routledge Publisher or Amazon, 3rd Edition)
- Mark Lewis Taylor – Remembering Esperanza (Author’s Site)
- Robert P Jones – White Too Long (Amazon)
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)