This research guide highlights books and other resources that promote diversity and address discrimination. All books are part of the collection at Ryan Library and are available for borrowing. Ryan Library is committed to laboring alongside the university in its work to support and sustain diversity and fully supports PLNU's Statement of Inclusivity and Commitment to Anti-Racism, which states:
"As a Christian community shaped by grace, truth, and holiness as a way of life, Point Loma Nazarene University is committed to pursue and reflect the diversity, inclusion, and equity of the kingdom of God portrayed in scripture."
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Please direct questions, comments, or book recommendations to librarian Robin Lang at rlang@pointloma.edu.
Roadmap to Reconciliation by Brenda Salter McNeil
The Force of Non-Violence by Judith Butler
Prophetic Lament: A call for justice in troubled times by Soong-Chan Rah
Embrace God's Radical Shalom for a Divided World by Leroy Barber
Microaggressions in Ministry by Cody J Sanders
Aliens in the Promised Land edited by Anthony B. Bradley
Disunity in Christ by Christena Cleveland
The Beginning of Difference: Discovering Identity in God's Diverse World by Theodore Hiebert
Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith by Mae Elise Cannon, Lisa Sharon Harper, Troy Jackson, and Soong-Chan Rah
Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Black and White in Christian America by Jason E. Shelton and Michael o. Emerson
Critical Race Theory
Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence by Judith Butler
White Out: Understanding White Privilege and Dominance in the Modern Age by Christopher S. Collins and Alexander Jun
The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America in Michael Eric Dyson
What Truth Sounds Like by Michael Eric Dyson
Racial Formation in the United States by Michael Omi and Howard Winant
Black in America by Enobong Hannah Branch and Christina Jackson
We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
How to Read a Protest by L. A. Kauffman
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance---A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle L. McGuire
Making All Black Lives Matters by Barbara Ransby
Law Enforcement in the Age of Black Lives Matter: Policing Black and Brown Bodies edited by Sandra E. Weissinger and Dwayne A. Mack
The Black Campus Movement by Ibram H. Rogers
The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Primary Sources:
ProQuest’s Black Freedom Struggle in the United States: Challenges and Triumphs in the Pursuit of Equality provides a selection of primary sources "about the foundation of ongoing racial injustice in the U.S. – and the fights against it."
Journal Articles (these require PLNU OneLogin):
Rankine, P. (2021). Time for Anti-Racism: A Way Forward for America and Higher Education. Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 37(24), 10–11.
Kempf, A. (2020). If We Are Going to Talk About Implicit Race Bias, We Need to Talk About Structural Racism: Moving Beyond Ubiquity and Inevitability in Teaching and Learning About Race. Taboo: The Journal of Culture & Education, 19(2), 115–132.
The rights guaranteed by the state to its citizens.Books highlighted here cover race, discrimination, gender, and discrimination within the LGBTQ+ community. To borrow one of these books, look for the call # below the book's cover image.
The Cross and the Lynching Tree by 
Roadmap to Reconciliation: moving communities into unity, wholeness, and justice by 
Stony the Road: reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow by 
Church in Color: youth ministry, race, and the theology of Martin Luther King Jr. by 
Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions, by 
Racial Formation in the United States by 
Rediscipling the White Church: from cheap diversity to true solidarity by 
A Multitude of All Peoples: engaging ancient Christianity's global identity by 
Beyond the Binary: Thinking about Sex and Gender by The 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.
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16th President of the United States (1861–65)
American writer whose antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) had great political influence and advanced the cause of abolition.
US antislavery and women's-suffrage campaigner. A former slave, she ran away and became involved with religious groups.
