An ongoing Conversation on Racism’s presence and effect on Society
In keeping with the Guild’s commitment to diversity and to deepening our understanding of the societal impact of racism on each of us, the Heart to Heart Dialogue group has been meeting once a month for two years. The following selection of 40 books has been compiled from a list of books read by Guild graduates and/or used in the AP program.
A Good Cry
Nikki Giovanni
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Been in the Struggle: Pursuing an Antiracist Spirituality
Regina Shands Stoltzfus
Black & Native Attention As Miracle
Loam
Brothers in the Beloved Community
Marc Andrus
Caste: The Origins of our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson
Crisis Contemplation: Healing The Wounded Village
Barbara Holmes
Do The Work! – An Antiracist Activity Book
W. Kamau Bell & Kate Schatz
Embodied Spirits-Stories of Spiritual Directors of Color
edited by Sherry Bryant-Johnson, Rosalie Norman-McNaney, & Therese Taylor-Stinson
Enneagram for Black Liberation: Return to Who You Are Beneath the Armor You Carry
Chichi Agorom
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton, edited by Kevin Young & Michael S. Glaser
How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens
Alice Walker
Kaleidoscope: Broadening the Palette in the Art of Spiritual Direction
edited by Ineda Pearl Adesanya
Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out
Ruth King
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma
Resmaa Menakem
My Selma: True Stories of a Southern Childhood at the Height of the Civil Rights Movement
Willie Mae Brown
No Future Without Forgiveness
Desmond Tutu
One Person, No Vote: How Voting Suppression is Destroying our Democracy
Carol Anderson
Our Stories – An Introduction to South Asian America
anthology of 64 authors made with SAADA.org
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
Race and the Cosmos
Barbara A. Holmes
Race and the Unconscious: An Africanist Depth Psychology Perspective on Dreaming
Fanny Brewster
See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
Valerie Kaur
So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X Kendi
The Anti-Racist Hero
Jennifer Bacon
The Beautiful Struggle
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Darkness Divine
Kristen Harper
The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual and Community
Malidoma Patrice Some
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
The Night is Long, But Light Comes in the Mornin
Catherine Meeks
The Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race
Fanny Brewster
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone
Heather McGhee
The Trauma of Caste – A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing & Abolition
Thenmozhi Soundararajan
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson
Unlearning White Supremacy
Alex Mikulich
Walking the Way of Harriet Tubman: Public mystic and Freedom Fighter
Therese Taylor-Stinson and Barbara A. Holmes
White Fragility: Why it is so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Michael Eric Dyson and Robin DiAngelo