Saint Philip's works to bring you resources and opportunities to engage in anti-racism work, as well as training to undo racism in ourselves and in our communities.

Suggestion for Lent

Lent of Liberation. Cheri L. Mills. Amazon link.

Deacon Joan Crawford’s bibliography

(from January 16-17, 2021, visitation.)

Websites & Advocacy

What Happens When White Identity Comes Before Christian Faith?

The Long View: Showing Up Consistently for ‘Justice for All.’ Tom Adams

The National Bail Fund Network is helping free people facing pretrial incarceration

Color of Change is advocating racial justice through specific efforts to change corporate and public policies

The Advancement Project is supporting organized communities in their struggles for racial and social justice, providing legal, communications and campaign organizing resources

Collective PAC’s Justice for All Fund is working to recruit, train, and fund Black judicial, prosecutorial and attorney general candidates to ensure more representative leaders for the criminal justice system.

The Episcopal Church: Engage your Faith and Citizenship. Link.

Film, Movies, Shorts, Public Media

Frances Causey’s film The Long Shadow. A local filmmaker examines the modern-day impacts of slavery

Understanding Multiracial Whiteness And Trump Supporters. NPR

I Am Not Your Negro. Directed by Raoul Peck, the film explores the history of racism in the United States through Baldwin's reminiscences of civil rights leaders

Just Mercy. It tells the true story of Walter McMillian, who, with the help of young defense attorney Bryan Stevenson, appeals his murder conviction. The film is based on the memoir of the same name, written by Stevenson

Lee, Spike: The Five Bloods

13th: A 2016 documentary by Ava Duvernay

Bisbee 17. Movie with Southern Arizona history. YouTube link.

Books

Abrams, Stacey: Our Time is Now

Alexander, Michelle: The New Jim Crow, Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Brennert, Alan. Daughter of Moloka’i: A Novel. Two-book series. Amazon link.

Brown, Austin Channing: I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Brueggemann, Walter. Reality, Grief, and Hope

Coates, Ta-Nehisi: Between the World and Me

Cone, James: The Cross and the Lynching Tree

Davis, Angela: Women, Race & Class

Diangelo, Robin: White Fragility

Du Bois, W.E.B: The Souls of Black Folk

Duncan, Lenny: Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US

Fields, Karen E; and Fields, Barbara J: Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life

Hall, Rachel Howzell: Land of Shadows,

Hart, Drew G.I.: Trouble I’ve Seen; Changing the Way the Church Views Racism (2016)

Hartgrove, J. Wilson. Reconstructing the Gospel. Amazon link.

Harvey, Jennifer: Dear White Christians

Isenberg, Nancy: White Trash

Kendi, Ibram X. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. Amazon link.

Lee, Erika: America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States

McBride, James, Deacon King Kong: A Novel. Amazon link.

McCauley, Esau. Reading While Back: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope. Amazon link.

Meacham, Jon. His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope. Amazon link.

Mills, Charles W: The Racial Contract

Morrison, Toni: The Origin of Others

Olua, Ijeoma: So you want to talk about race http://www.ijeomaoluo.com

Rosenberg, Rosalind. Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray. Amazon link.

Saad, Layla F. Me and White Supremacy https://www.meandwhitesupremacybook.com (there’s a workbook, available)

Srinivasan, Bhu. Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism. Amazon link.

Stevenson, Brian: Just Mercy

Thurman, Howard: Jesus and the Disinherited

Tuttle, Will: The World Peace Diet

Wallis, Jim: America's Original Sin

Wilkerson, Isabel. Caste. Amazon link.

Williams, Robert A: Savage Anxieties: The Invention of Western Civilization

Short Videos & Speeches

Martin Luther King Jr: I Have a Dream speech

Martin Luther King Jr: Letter from a Birmingham Jail

N.T. Wright: Undermining Racism

The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II: Sermon at National Cathedral, June 14, 2020

PBS: Slavery by Another Name

Privilege/Class/Social Inequalities Explained in a $100 Race. Watch to end.

Articles

Opinion, AZ Daily Star, Tim Stellar “‘Replacement’ fear looks weird.”

Opinion, AZ Daily Star, Nancy Smith on Ducey’s attempt to circumvent the will of the people on taxes

Opinion, Ellis Carr & Kurt Chilcott: Equitable revitalization critical to Detroit’s future.

Picker, Lenny. Abraham Lincoln’s greatest gift to the Jews. “Forward,” February 15, 2021.

Araujo-Hawkins Dawn. “Majority of White Christians see no pattern in killings.” The Christian Century magazine, article dated September 7, 2020

Kunzru, Hari. “The Wages of Whiteness.” The New York Review of Books. September 24, 2020.

Oldham, Grace. Arizona Republic. September 13, 2020. “Arizona has suppressed Black, Latino, and Native American voters for more than a century.”

Arizona State University, Tempe Campus. Indigenous Act help complete the work of the 19th Amendment. “ASU professor says voting inequalities for Native Americans still exist nearly a century after Congress granted them citizenship.” Link.

Briggs, Williams and Jon Krakauer. The New York Times. “The Massacre That Emboldened White Supremacists.”

Paulsen, David. From Many, One. Episcopal News Service.

Spears, Tianna.Politico magazine. “I Was a U.S. Diplomat. Customs and Border Protection Only Cared That I Was Black.”

American Bar Association. How the Native American Vote Continues to be Suppressed.

National Review: America Begins to See More Clearly Now What Its Black Citizens Always Knew

Evans, David: Let Them Listen: White Christians Need to Make an Investment in Learning about Racism

Presiding Bishop joins Poor People Campaign’s massive online demonstration

Griswold, Eliza. The New Yorker magazine. “How Black Lives Matter Is Changing the Church.” Link.

Hannah-Jones, Nikole. New York Times Magazine: It is Time for Reparations

Safday, Khadeeja, and Keach Hogey. WSJ: Black Executives Are Sharing Their Experiences of Racism, Many for the First Time

The New Yorker: How Racist Was Flannery O’Connor?

Lament Webinars

Published by the Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing, Atlanta, GA

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1A43VLB1hHZtCuWcTLGnPQ?view_as=subscriber

Websites for learning and action

The Jesus Movement & the Poor People's Campaign - Episcopal Justice Assembly -- Jun 10, 2020 06:00 PM EST

Now is the time to build our collective energy and moral vision for racial and economic justice. We will learn from Episcopalians who are leaders in the fight for justice. This is our opportunity to share experiences and reflect on our communal call to faithful action in anticipation of the National Poor People's Digital March on Washington on June 20th. Register here to join the June 10th Assembly.

https://episcopalchurch.org/responding-to-racist-violence

http://www.centerforracialhealing.org

National Museum of African American History and Culture Releases 'Talking About Race' Web Portal

Introduction: The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture today launched Talking About Race, a new online portal designed to help individuals, families, and communities talk about racism, racial identity and the way these forces shape every aspect of society, from the economy and politics to the broader American culture.

Anti-Racism resources for all ages

By Dr. Nicole A. Cooke (updates ongoing)

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/anti-racism-resources

Local places to volunteer time and talent

Standing Up for Racial Justice, local chapter TucsonSURJ@gmail.com

https://www.facebook.com/ALLblacklives/

Poetry and inspiration

The Spiritual Work of Black Lives Matters: https://onbeing.org/programs/patrisse-cullors-and-robert-ross-the-spiritual-work-of-black-lives-matter-may2017/ Black Lives Matter co-founder and artist Patrisse Cullors presents a luminous vision of the spiritual core of Black Lives Matter and a resilient world in the making. She joins Dr. Robert Ross, a physician and philanthropist on the cutting edge of learning how trauma can be healed in bodies and communities. A cross-generational reflection on evolving social change

https://onbeing.org/poetry/this-is-what-was-bequeathed-us/

A Small Needful Fact, poems by Ross Gay

Talking with Children about Race

Conversations about race with our children can be anxiety-producing...and also incredibly spiritually fruitful, shaping an understanding not only of what justice means, but of how justice informs our understanding of the Kingdom of God and how God is calling us to cooperate with grace to shape our communities into the greater likeness of the Kingdom! I'll be gathering resources to try and help you continue the conversations you're already having in your homes, or equip you to start conversations that will honest, truthful, healing...so that we can all do what we can to become Beloved Community together!

Here is the Episcopal Church's Resource Page on Racial Reconciliation

There are a ton of links there, and most of them aren't geared toward having family conversations...but the more informed YOU are, the more informed your children and families will be! f There's a very specific link to Talking Race with Children, but it looks like the link is broken or changed. I think where it was directing, though, was to someplace like this:

The Resource Page for Kids and Race

After the list of organizations, you'll find links to various blogs and articles (including this helpful list of resources divided by age-group).

Another page from the Episcopal Church to visit is this: Responding to Racist Violence.

There’s a link there for the Center for Racial Justice in Education on talking with kids about race…it doesn’t seem to be working right now, but hopefully will be very soon! It takes a while to get to the main site as it is, so imagine there may be a lot of traffic slowing things down!

The Ten Ways to Fight Hate Community Resource Guide from the Southern Poverty Law Center may also be helpful to you in thinking of ways both practical and powerful to act as a family at this time. You can find a PDF of the guide here!