Recommended Reading List

Issues Related to Race, Reconciliation and Responsibility

Sharif Abdullah, Creating A World That Works for All, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1999.

Gordon W. Allport, The Nature of Prejudice. New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1979.

Arthur Ashe, Days of Grace. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.

Derrick Bell. And We Are Not Saved. New York: Basic Books, 1987.

Derrick A. Bell. Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism in America. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1992.

Jack A. Brill and Alan Reder. Investing from the heart: The Guide to Socially Responsible Investments and Money Management. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1992.

Harlon L. Dalton. Racial Healing: Confronting the Fear Between Blacks and Whites. New York: Doubleday, 1995.

Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth. Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years. New York: Kodansha America Inc., 1993.

William Dudley and Charles Cozic, eds. Racism in America: Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego, California: Greenhaven Press, Inc., 1991.

Clyde W. Ford. We Can All Get Along. New York: Dell Publishing, 1994.

Sam Fulwood, III. Waking from the Dream: My Life in the Black Middle Class. New York: Anchor Books, 1996.

Henry Louis Gates and Cornel West. The Future of the Race. New York: Knopf, 1996.

William W. Goldsmith and Edward J. Blakely. Separate Societies: Poverty and Inequality in U.S. Cities. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992.

William B. Gudykunst. Bridging Differences: Effective Intergroup Communication. Newbury Park, California: Sage, 1991.

Lani Guinier. The Tyranny of The Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy. New York: The Free Press, 1994.

Andrew Hacker. Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1992.

Michael Henderson. Forgiveness: Breaking the Chain of Hate, Wilsonville, OR: Book Partners, 1999.

Michael Henderson. The Forgiveness Factor. Salem, OR: Grosvenor Books, 1996.

bell hooks. Killing Rage: Ending Racism. New York: Owl Book, 1995.

Ellen Levine, ed. Freedom’s Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1993.

Glenn C. Loury. One By One From the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America. New York: The Free Press, 1995.

Robert Mann. The Walls of Jericho: Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Russell and the Struggle for Civil Rights. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1996.

Reed Massengill. Portrait of a Racist: The Man Who Killed Medgar Evers?. New York: St. Martin’s Press, Inc., 1994.

Barbara Mathias and Mary Ann French. 40 Ways to Raise a Nonracist Child. New York: HarperPerennial, 1996.

Partricia and Fredrick McKissack. Taking a Stand Against Racism and Racial Discrimination. New York: Franklin Watts, 1990.

Joseph V. Montville, Walking Through History. Washington, D.C.: Johns Hopkins Center for Strategic & International Studies, 199_.

Nell Irvin Painter. Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol. New York: W. W. Norton, 1996.

Spencer Perkins and Chris Rice. More Than Equals. Wheaton, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 1992.

Patricia Raybon. My First White Friend. New York: Viking, 1996.

Chris P. Rice, Grace Matters: A True Story of Race, Friendship, and Faith in the Heart of the South. Jossey-Bass 2002.

Paul Robeson, Jr. Paul Robeson, Jr. Speaks to America. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.

Randall Robinson. The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks. Dutton, 2000. Book Review

David Rusk. Cities Without Suburbs. Washington, DC: The Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1993.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. The Disuniting of America. New York: Norton, 1993.

David Schoem and Sylvia Hurtado, Editors. Intergroup Dialogue: Deliberative Democracy in School, College, Community, and Workplace. U. of Michigan Press, 2001. Includes a chapter on the work of Hope in the Cities written by Karen E. Greisdorf.

Lester P. Schoene and Marcelle E. DuPraw. Facing Racial and Cultural Conflict: Tools for Rebuilding Community. Washington, DC: Program for Community Proble Solving, 1992.

Shelby Steele. The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America. New York: St. Martin’s Press, Inc., 1990.

Study Circles Resource Center. Why Can’t We All Just Get Along? Pomfret, Connecticut: Study Circles Resource Center, 1993.

Studs Terkel. Race: How Blacks & Whites Think & Feel About the American Obsession. New York: Doubleday, 1992.

Cornel West. Race Matters. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993.

Midge Wilson and Kathy Russell. Divided Sisters: Bridging the Gap Between Black Women and White Women. New York: Anchor Books, 1996.

Workers of the Writers Program of the work Projects Administration in the State of Virginia. The Negro in Virginia. North Carolina: John F. Blair, Publisher, 1994.