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The items below are available from the Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation Lending Library.  To check out any of these resources, please contact tabler@csasisters.org.  Use the links listed here to jump down the page to your topic of interest.

Biographies

  • Born on the Border

    BY RAY YBARRA MALDONADO, ESQ.

    Minutemen Vigilantes, origins of Arizona's anti-immigrant movement, a call for civil disobedience

  • Dreams From My Father

    BY BARACK OBAMA

    Memoir; a story of race and inheritance

  • Fluent in Faith: The Gift of Mary McCormick

    BY DONALD J. MUELLER & JACQ. HANSEN MAGGIORE

    Lay missionary from Wisconsin to Columbia; co-founder of religious communities

  • Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement

    BY LYNNE OLSON

    Portraits of more than 60 women; women's role in the struggle for racial equality from 1830-1970

  • Footsoldier for Peace and Justice: the Story of John Gilman

    BY JOHN GILMAN

    World War II soldier; progressive; defender of those unjustly persecuted

  • Invisible Hands: Voices from the Global Economy

    BY CORRINNE GORIA, ED.

    The human rights crises occurring behind the scenes of the global economy

  • Love is the Measure

    BY JIM FOREST

    Biography of Dorothy Day, founder of The Catholic Worker 

  • The Martin Luther King, Jr. Companion

    BY CORETTA SCOTT KING

    Compilation from MLK's essays, lectures, and speeches

  • Mychal Judge: Take Me Where You Want Me to Go

    BY FRANCIS DEBERNARDO

    A biography on the extraordinary life of Franciscan priest, Mychal Judge.

  • My Bondage and My Freedom

    BY FREDERICK DOUGLASS

    Frederick Douglass' autobiography.

  • My Journey from Silence to Solidarity: Roy Bourgeois, M.M.

    BY ED. MARGARET KNAPKE

    Roy Bourgeois becoming an activist for women's ordination

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

    INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY ROBERT G. O'MEALLY

    The book calmly but dramatically recounts the horrors and the accomplishments of Douglass' early years.

  • Narrative of Sojourner Truth

    INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY IMANI PERRY

    Sojourner Truth transformed herself from a runaway slave to a well-known campaigner for abolition and women's rights.

  • Vessel of Clay: The Inspiration Journey of Sister Carla

    BY JACQUELINE HANSEN MAGGIORE

    Maryknoll Sister; worked with the 4 church women killed in El Salvador -- she died before them

Catholic Church

  • Can Religious Life Be Prophetic

    BY MICHAEL H. CROSBY, OFM CAP.

    Prophets in Scripture and Christian tradition to show the way to renewal

  • Catechism of the Catholic Church

    BY THE HOLY SEE

    Official Catholic Church teachings

  • The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response

    BY NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS

    A pastoral letter on war and peace

  • Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship

    BY U.S. CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS

    A call to political responsibility--revised and published every four years.

  • Gaudete Et Exsultate: On the Call to Holiness in Today's World

    BY POPE FRANCIS

    An Apostolic Exhortation from the Pope

  • A Guide to Religious Ministries for Catholic Men and Women

    BY RELIGIOUSMINISTRIES.COM

    Annual edition: religious communities of priests, brothers and sisters active in the U.S

  • Fratelli Tutti: On Fraternity and Social Friendship

    BY POPE FRANCIS

    Encyclical Letter from the Pope

  • The Joy of the Gospel

    BY POPE FRANCIS

    An Apostolic Exhortation from the Pope

  • Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home

    BY POPE FRANCIS

    Encyclical Letter from the Pope

  • Witness to Integrity

    BY ANITA M CASPARY

    Immaculate Heart of Mary Sisters in conflict with Cardinal James McIntyre of Los Angeles

Cosmology

  • Born With a Bang: The Universe Tells Our Cosmic Story

    BY JENNIFER MORGAN; ILLUS. BY DANA LYNNE ANDERSON

    The universe and the young Earth

  • Born From Lava to Life: The Universe Tells Our Earth Story

    BY JENNIFER MORGAN; ILLUS. BY DANA LYNNE ANDERSON

    The beginning of life on Earth

  • The Cosmic Dance: An Invitation to Experience Our Oneness

    BY JOYCE RUPP; ART -- MARY SOUTHARD

    Prose and poetry; oneness with each other and all of life

  • Creative Energy: Bearing Witness for the Earth

    BY THOMAS BERRY

    Berry offers an inspiring vision of an alternative society in which we recover our connection to the life-sustaining mystery of the earth's creative energy and establish a new set of "biocratic" human priorities based on the needs of the planet.

  • The Dream of Earth

    BY THOMAS BERRY

    A deep understanding of the history and functioning of the evolving universe is a necessary inspiration and guide for our own effective functioning as individuals and as a species. 

  • Eaarth: Making Life on a Tough New Planet

    BY BILL MCKIBBEN

    McKibben shows that we’re living on a fundamentally altered planet – and opens our eyes to the kind of change we’ll need to order to make our civilization endure. 

  • The Great Work: Our Way Into the Future

    BY THOMAS BERRY

    Transitioning from a disrupting force on the Earth to a benign presence

  • Green Sisters: A Spiritual Ecology

    BY SARAH MCFARLAND TAYLOR

    How can we as human beings find ethical and sustainable ways to live with one another and with other living beings on this planet?  This book provides compelling answers from a variety of religious communities.

  • The Holy Web: Church and the New Universe Story

    BY CLETUS WESSELS

    Offers entrée to the world revealed by contemporary science and the difference the new models of our life on earth make to understanding Christianity. 

  • Journey of the Universe

    BY BRIAN THOMAS SWIMME & MARY EVELYN TUCKER

    Readable account of the history of the universe from the Big Band to the present

  • Laudate Deum

    BY POPE FRANCIS

    The second of Pope Francis' Apostolic Exhortations on Climate Crisis 

  • Listening to Nature: How to Deepen Your Awareness of Nature

    BY JOSEPH CORNELL

    A guidebook to a deeper awareness of nature.  You will learn, not mere facts about nature but how to get the feel of nature, through inspiring quotations from famous naturalists, stunning photography, and Cornell’s ever-popular nature awareness activities. 

  • Mammals Who Morph: the Universe Tells Our Evolution Story

    BY JENNIFER MORGAN; ILLUS. BY DANA LYNNE ANDERSON

    The rise of mammals and humans on planet Earth

  • Radical Amazement

    BY JUDY CANNATO

    Contemplative lessons from black; holes supernovas and other wonders of the universe

  • Recovering A Sense of the Sacred: Conversations with Thomas Berry

    BY CAROLYN W. TOBEN

    For ten years, author Carolyn spent many hours in deep discussions with Thomas Berry about his transformational thinking for healing the human-earth relationship through recovery of a sense of the sacred.

  • The Universe is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story

    BY BRIAN SWIMME

    Communicating his ideas in the form of a classical dialogue between a youth and a wise elder, cosmologist Brian Swimme crafts a fascinating exploration into the creativity suffusing the universe. His explication of the fundamental powers of the cosmos is mystical and ecstatic and points directly to the need to activate one’s own creative powers.

  • The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth of the Ecozoic Era

    BY BRIAN SWIMME & THOMAS BERRY

    Unites science and the humanities in a coherent story of the evolution of Earth

  • Under the Sky We Make: How to Be Human in a Warming World

    BY DR. KIMBERLY NICHOLAS

    A book not about facts, but feelings, and the actions that only the people and places we love can inspire.

  • What Does God Look Like in an Expanding Universe?

    BY JIM SCHENK, ED.

    A variety of thinkers, activists, and artists grapple with the questions of God

  • Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto

    BY STEWART BRAND

    Brand shows us exactly where the sources of our dilemmas lie and offers a bold and inventive set of policies and design-based solutions for shaping a more sustainable society. 

Criminal Justice

  • Conscience and Consequence: A prison Memoir

    BY CLARE HANRAHAN

    A political prisoner's six month stay in federal prison

  • Dead Man Walking

    BY SISTER HELEN PREJEAN

    Helen accompanies a man on death row; comes to know the executioners & families of the victims

  • Just Mercy

    BY BRYAN STEPHESON

    Justice and redemption for one man on death row

  • Let None Walk Alone: A guide for family and friends of incarcerated people

    BY SISTER JUANITA UJCIK, OSF

    Real-life stories; information, strategies, resources and common sense

  • Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison

    BY PIPER KERMAN

    A memoir of one woman's year in a federal correctional facility

  • When We Visit Jesus in Prison

    BY DALE S. RECINELLA

    Reflections and stories about a man's prison ministry; sociological and psychological thinking on incarceration

  • Where Justice and Mercy Meet

    BY DONALD J. MUELLER & JACQ. HANSEN MAGGIORE

    The Catholic stance against capital punishment intertwined with racism and mental health

  • The Women in Block 12: Voices from a Jail Ministry

    BY LINDA PISCHKE

    Insights into the journeys of incarcerated women; stories of courage, resilience, and hope

Ecology

  • Eaarth: Making Life on a Tough New Planet

    BY BILL MCKIBBEN

    McKibben shows that we’re living on a fundamentally altered planet – and opens our eyes to the kind of change we’ll need to order to make our civilization endure. 

  • Environmental Stewardship in the Judeo-Christian Tradition

    BY THE ACTION INSTITUTE

    This collection of essays seeks to articulate the broad Judeo-Christian theological principles concerning the environment, and to distinguish those principles from contrary ideas popular in the environmental movement. 

  • The Great Work: Our Way Into the Future

    BY THOMAS BERRY

    We stand at a defining moment in history, one in which the Earth itself calls out to us to embark upon a resacralization of nature, a new ecological beginning (1990).

  • Green Sisters: A Spiritual Ecology

    BY SARAH MCFARLAND TAYLOR

    How can we as human beings find ethical and sustainable ways to live with one another and with other living beings on this planet? This book provides compelling answers from a variety of religious communities.

  • Hydrofracking: What Everyone Needs to Know

    BY ALEX PRUD’HOMME

    Prud’homme explains the basics of hydraulic fracturing, considers the economic and political benefits and explores concerns about health dangers and damage to the environment.

  • Kiss the Ground (DVD)

    NARRATED BY WOODY HARRELSON AND DIRECTED BY JOSH TICKELL AND REBECCA HARREL

    An 85-minute long feature film which unveils a game-changer: We can reverse global warming and the Earth’s soil is the solution. 

  • The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities

    BY WILL ALLEN, CEO OF GROWING POWER

    From the plots of his Milwaukee, WI urban farm to low-income communities across America, Will Allen shows us a new type of heroism.

  • The Hidden Life of Trees (DVD)

    A 2021 FILM BASED ON THE BESTSELLING BOOK BY PETER WOHLLEBEN

    The whole world is talking about the environment, but frequently fails to listen to nature itself. It is Peter Wohlleben’s mission to change that.

  • Listening to Nature: How to Deepen Your Awareness of Nature

    BY JOSEPH CORNELL

    A guidebook to a deeper awareness of nature.  You will learn, not mere facts about nature but how to get the feel of nature, through inspiring quotations from famous naturalists, stunning photography, and Cornell’s ever-popular nature awareness activities. 

  • The Story of Stuff: How our obsession with stuff is trashing the planet, our communities, and our he

    BY ANNIE LEONARD

    We have a problem with Stuff.  With just 3% of the world’s population, the U.S. consumes 30% of the world’s resources and creates 30% of the world’s waste.

  • This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

    BY NAOMI KLEIN

    Author Naomi Klein tackles the most profound threat humanity has ever faced: The war our economic model is waging against life on earth.

  • Under the Sky We Make: How to Be Human in a Warming World

    BY DR. KIMBERLY NICHOLAS

    A book not about facts, but feelings, and the actions that only the people and places we love can inspire.

  • Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto

    BY STEWART BRAND

    Brand shows us exactly where the sources of our dilemmas lie and offers a bold and inventive set of policies and design-based solutions for shaping a more sustainable society. 

Gender Equality

  • The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam

    BY AYAAN HIRSI ALI

    Reflection on Islam and the role of women

  • A Home for ALL: A Catholic Call for LGBTQ Non-Discrimination

    BY FRANCIS DEBERNARDO AND ROBERT SHINE (2 copies)

    A brief 60-page book created for Catholics in the pews, pastoral ministers, and educators to understand why their Catholic faith promotes equality for LGBTQ people, despite some church leaders' opposition. 

  • Narrative of Sojourner Truth

    INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY IMANI PERRY

    Sojourner Truth transformed herself from a runaway slave to a well-known campaigner for abolition and women's rights.

  • Prophetic Women of Bold Love: Spiritualities of Non-Violence

    BY SHAWN MADIGAN, PHD, CSJ

    Women from various parts of the world who have experienced violence and used it to foster peace

Human Trafficking

  • Enslaved

    BY JESSE SAGE AND LIORA KASTEN, EDS.

    Stories of human trafficking, especially of women and children is a thriving industry

  • Girls Like Us

    BY RACHEL LLOYD

    Rachel's memoir of being trafficked for sex

  • How You Can Fight Human Trafficking

    BY THROUGH GOD'S GRACE MINISTRY

    Ideas and resources about how once individual can make a difference.

  • Human Trafficking Around the World

    BY STEPHANIE HEPBURN AND RITA J. SIMON

    Economics, geography, civil unrest, societal inequality, gender disparities -- role in trafficking

  • Justice Awakening: Hou You and Your Church Can Help End Human Trafficking

    BY EDDIE BYUN

    Biblical and practical perspective on addressing human trafficking

  • The Johns: Sex for Sale and the Men who Buy It

    BY VICTOR MALAREK

    A portrait of the men and organizations that foster and drive the sex trade

  • Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States

    BY DENISE BRENNAN

    Personal stories of people who escaped forced labor in the US

  • Not a Choice, Not a Job

    BY JANICE G. RAYMOND

    Exposing the myths about prostitution and the global sex trade

  • Not for Sale

    BY DAVID BATSTONE

    The global slave trade and how to fight it

  • Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality

    BY GAIL DINES

    The economics and cultural power of the pornography industry

  • Walking Prey: How America's Youth are Vulnerable to Sex Slavery

    BY HOLLY AUSTIN SMITH

    Smith's personal story; how to help, not hurt child sex trafficking victims.

Immigration

  • Are We There Yet: Stories From the Border

    BY PAULA SCHWENDINGER, PBVM (2 copies available)

    Individual accounts of crossing the border into the US

  • Blessed Are the Refugees: Beatitudes of Immigrant Children

    BY S. ROSE, L. O'DONOVAN, STAFFF AND VOLUNTEERS

    Stories of immigrant children who are fled Central America

  • Crossing with the Virgin

    BY FERGUSON, NORMA A. PRICE, TED PARKS

    Stories of the journeys of people crossing the US-Mexico borders; help from local people

  • Illegal: Nafta Refugees Forced to Flee

    BY PETER A. GENIESSE

    The role of U.S. politics and trade policies in producing the immigration crisis

  • International Migration: A Very Short Introduction

    BY KHALID KOSER

    Migration's fundamental links with globalization, development, poverty, and human rights.

  • Jesus was a Migrant

    BY DEIRDRE CORNELL

    Biblical stories of migrants; suffering and blessing that accompanies the migrant journey

  • Living in the Shadows: A primer on the human rights of migrants

    BY AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

    An overview of the rights of migrants; an agenda for migrants' rights

  • Moving Millions: How Coyote Capitalism Fuels Global Immigration

    BY JEFFERY KAYE

    The phenomena of immigration; how it impacts all of us

  • A Nation of Nations

    BY TOM GJELTEN

    US immigration since the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act

  • A Promised Land, A Perilous Journey: Theological Perspectives on Migration

    BY ED. DANIEL G. GROODY, GIOACCHINO CAMPESE

    A compilation of essays taking a theological and rights-based approach to the issue of migration

  • Rescuing Regina: the Battle to Save a Friend from Deportation and Death

    BY SR. JOSEPHE MARIE FLYNN

    Sister Josephe's efforts on behalf of Regina reveal the complexity of the US immigration system

Justice

  • The Gospel of Peace and Justice

    BY JOSEPH GREMILLION

    Catholic social teaching since Pope John XXIII

  • Hunger for Hope

    BY SR. SIMONE CAMPBELL (2 copies available)

    Prophetic Communities, Contemplation and the Common Good

  • NAFTA from Below

    BY MARTHA A. OJEDA AND ROSEMARY ENNESY, EDS.

    Maquiladora workers, farmers, and Indigenous Communities speak out about Free Trade in Mexico

  • Saints and Social Justice: A Guide to Changing the World

    BY BRANDON VOGT

    Social justice as lived by 14 different saints

  • The Little Book of Restorative Justice

    BY HOWARD ZEHR

    Workable principles and practices for making restorative justice both possible and useful.

  • Voice of the Voiceless

    BY ARCHBISHOP OSCAR ROMERO

    Romero's Four Pastoral Letters and Other Statements

  • We Cry Justice

    BY LIZ THEOHARIS

    Reading the Bible with the Poor People's Campaign

Non-Violence

  • The End of War

    BY CAPTAIN PAUL K. CHAPPELL

    A unique perspective on war and peace from the perspective of a soldier

  • Hanged on a Twisted Cross: The Life, Convictions and Martydom of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (DVD)

    A FILM BY T. N. MOHAN

    This gripping documentary captures the life, times, and thought of Bonhoeffer.

  • In the Spirit of St. Francis and the Sultan

    BY GEORGE ARDESS AND MARVIN L. ERIER MICH

    Catholics and Muslims Working Together for the Common Good

  • Islam and the Future of Tolerance

    BY SAM HARRIS AND MAAJID HAWAZ

    Addresses the question, "Is Islam a religion of peace or war?"

  • Jesus and Nonviolence: A Third Way

    BY WALTER WINK

    The relation of Jesus and his message to politics and nonviolence.

  • The Paradox of Power: Moving from Control to Compassion in a Violent World

    BY MICHAEL CROSBY

    The creative energy of power can heal

  • The Risk of the Cross

    BY ARTHUR LAFFIN

    Living Gospel non-violence in the nuclear age

  • The Twelve Steps to Peace

    BY JOHNNY F

    The use of the twelve step process to bring about peace

  • Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict

    BY ERICA CHENOWETH & MARIA J. STEPHAN

    Study of countries and territories and their non-violent resistance campaigns

Politics & Economics

  • Abuse of Discretion

    BY CLARKE D. FORSYTHE

    Inside story of Roe v. Wade

  • The Audacity of Hope

    BY BARACK OBAMA

    Thoughts on reclaiming the American Dream

  • Blue Jeans In High

    BY MIKE MCCABE

    The makeover of American politics.

  • Cathonomics: How Catholic Tradition Can Create a More Just Economy

    BY ANTHONY ANNETT

    An ethical and practical guide for readers of all faiths and backgrounds seeking to create a world economy that is more prosperous, inclusive, and sustainable for all.

  • Dollarocracy

    BY JOHN NICHOLS; ROBERT MCCHESNEY

    Money-media and the election process

  • God's Politics

    BY JIM WALLIS

    Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It

  • Hostile Takeover

    BY DAVID SIROTA

    Big money and corruption conquered our government-- how we take it back

  • A Nun on the Bus

    BY SR. SIMONE CAMPBELL

    In 2012, Simone and other sisters rally against Paul Ryan's budget.

  • People Get Ready

    BY ROBERT W. MCCHESNEY; JOHN NICHOLS

    The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy

  • The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

    BY HEATHER MCGHEE

    One of today's most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone, not just people of color.

  • Think and Act Anew

    BY LARRY SNYDER

    How Poverty in America Affects Us all and What We Can Do about It

  • $200 a Day

    BY KATHRYN J. EDIN, LUKE SHAEFER

    Living on Almost Nothing in America

  • Unstoppable

    BY RALPH NADER

    Left-right alliance to dismantle the corporate state
     

  • What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World

    BY NOAM CHOMSKY

    A collection of conversations conducted in 2006 and 2007, which explore the most urgent U. S. issues of that time.

  • Winner-Take-All Politics

    BY JACOB HACKER; PAUL PIERSON

    How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class

Race

  • A History in Indigenous Voices

    BY CAROL CORNELIUS

    Drawing on a rich collection of primary sources, Cornelius walks readers through how, why, and for whom the treaties were made and how the federal government's failure and unwillingness to acknowledge their legitimacy led to the further loss of Indigenous lands.

  • Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America

    BY JOHN LEWIS

    In this heartfelt book, Lewis explores the contributions that each generation must make to achieve change.

  • America's Original Sin

    BY JIM WALLIS

    Racial justice, redemption, reconciliation

  • And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice

    BY DERRICK BELL

    A distinguished legal scholar and civil rights activist employs a series of dramatic fables and dialogues to probe the foundations of America's racial attitudes.

  • Between the World and Me

    BY TA-NEHISI COATS

    Written by Coates as a letter to his then-teenage son about his perception of what the feelings, symbolism, and realities associated with being Black in the United States are. 

  • Braiding Sweetgrass

    BY ROBIN WALL KIMMERER

    Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer gives a wildly new perspective on plant life and their relationship to humans.  

  • …But I'm Not Racist! Tools for Well-Meaning Whites

    BY KATHY OBEAR, EDD

    This is a must-have resource for white people who want support in order to take the next step in their journey toward racial justice.

  • Caste

    BY ISABEL WILKERSON

    Wilkerson describes racism in the United States as an aspect of a caste system—a society-wide system of social stratification characterized by notions such as hierarchy, inclusion and exclusion, and purity.

  • Colored People

    BY HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.

    Henry Louis Gates recounts his life"s journey with the artistry of a griot from the motherland 

  • Dear White America

    BY TIM WISE

    In Dear White America Tim Wise directly addresses white people's growing concerns about political, cultural, and community-level shifts displacing their power and privilege. 

  • Dear White Peacemakers Dismantling Racism with Grit and Grace

    BY OSHETA MORORE; FORWARD BY: JEN HATMAKER

    Dear White Peacemakers is a breakup letter to division, a love letter to God's beloved community, and an eviction notice to the violent powers that have sustained racism for centuries.  

  • Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul

    BY EDDIE S. GLAUDE JR

    A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society. 

  • Dispatches from the Race War

    BY TIM WISE

    Tim Wise provides historical and political background to what happened and why the events fit into longstanding patterns of racial oppression, racism, and victim blaming. 

  • Fierce Love

    BY REV. DR. JACQUI LEWIS

    A healing antidote to our divisive culture, full of evocative storytelling, spiritual wisdom, and nine essential daily practices. 

  • How to be an Antiracist

    BY IBRAM X KENDI

    How to Be an Antiracist is a 2019 nonfiction book by American author and historian Ibram X. Kendi, which combines social commentary and memoir. 

  • From Out of the Shadows: Doubt in the Service of Faith & Other Paradoxes

    BY JACQUELYN SMITHSON HOWARD

    What if you were taught to think for yourself, free to not accept every lesson that was handed to you, and given the freedom to express your opinions 

  • Interrupting White Privilege

    BY LAURIE M CASSIDY & ALEX MIKULICH, EDS.

    White theologians address colleagues and readers on our complicity in the social sin of racism

  • Learning From the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil

    BY SUSAN NEIMAN

    In clear and gripping prose, Neiman urges us to consider the nuanced forms that evil can assume, so that we can recognize and avoid them in the future. 

  • Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself

    BY U.S CATHOLIC BISHOPS

    Articles on racism written by US bishops

  • Me and White Supremacy

    BY LAYLA F. SAAD

    Author Layla F. Saad wrote Me and White Supremacy to encourage people who hold white privilege to examine their (often unconscious) racist thoughts and behaviors through a unique, 28-day reflection process complete with journaling prompts. 

  • My Bondage and My Freedom

    BY FREDERICK DOUGLASS 

    Douglass' second autobiography released during the tense and politically charged years preceding the Civil War.

  • My Grandmother's Hands

    BY RESMAA MENAKEM

    In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology. 

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

    INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY ROBERT G. O'MEALLY

    The book calmly but dramatically recounts the horrors and the accomplishments of Douglass' early years.

  • Narrative of Sojourner Truth

    INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY IMANI PERRY

    Sojourner Truth transformed herself from a runaway slave to a well-known campaigner for abolition and women's rights.

  • Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

    BY ROBERT D. PUTNAM

    How growing income gaps have shaped our children

  • Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity

    BY MICHELE NORRIS

    The prompt seemed simple: Race. Your Thoughts. Six Words. Please Send.

    The answers, though, have been challenging and complicated. In the twelve years since award-winning journalist Michele Norris first posed that question, over half a million people have submitted their stories to The Race Card Project inbox. The stories are shocking in their depth and candor, spanning the full spectrum of race, ethnicity, identity, and class. Even at just six words, the micro-essays can pack quite a punch, revealing, fear, pain, triumph, and sometimes humor. Responses such as: You’re Pretty for a Black girl. White privilege, enjoy it, earned it. Lady, I don’t want your purse. My ancestors massacred Indians near here. Urban living has made me racist. I’m only Asian when it’s convenient.

  • Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome

    BY DR. JOY DEGRUY

    Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing is a 2005 theoretical work by Joy DeGruy Leary 

  • Race Matters

    BY CORNEL WEST

    The book analyzes moral authority and racial debates concerning skin color in the United States 

  • Racial Justice and the Catholic Church

    BY BRYAN N. MASSINGALE

    Fr. Massingale's book provides an outstanding review of racism within the context of American society and the Catholic Church.  

  • Racism Without Racists

    BY EDUARDO BONILLA-SILVA

    Color-blind racism and racial inequality in contemporary America

  • Slavery by Another Name (Book & DVD)

    BY DOUGLAS A BLACKMON

    Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the show of involuntary servitude shortly thereafter. 

    DVD - NARRATED BY LAURENCE FISHBURNE

    A 90-minute documentary that challenges one of American's most cherished assumptions: That slavery in this country ended with the Emancipation Proclamation

  • So You Want to Talk About Race

    BY IJEOMA OLUO

    Each chapter title is a question about race in contemporary America. Oluo outlines her opinions on the topics, as well as advice about how to talk about the issues.  

  • Stamped from the Beginning

    BY IBRAM X. KENDI

    The narrative smoothly weaves throughout history, culminating in the declaration that as much as we'd like it to be, America today is nowhere near the 'postracial' country that the media declared following the election of Barack Obama in 2008   

  • Strength for the Struggle

    BY JOSEPH ELLWANGER

    Ellwanger's insights from the Civil Rights Movement and urban ministry

  • Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle

    BY SHANNEN DEE WILLIAMS

    In Subversive Habits, Shannen Dee Williams provides the first full history of Black Catholic nuns in the United States, hailing them as the forgotten prophets of Catholicism and democracy. 

  • Sundown Towns

    BY JAMES W. LOEWEN

    Loewen (emeritus, sociology, U. of Vermont) exposes the history and persistence of "sundown towns," so-named for the signs often found at their corporate limits warning African Americans and other minorities not to be found in the town after dusk 

  • The 1619 Project

    BY NICOLE HANNAH-JONES

    This book that speaks directly to our current moment, contextualizing the systems of race and caste within which we operate today. 

  • The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice, From the Civil Rights Movement to Today

    BY CHARLES MARSH

    Marsh traces the history of the radical idea of Christian love over the past five decades.

  • The Color of Law

    BY RICHARD ROTHSTEIN

    The Color of Law incontrovertibly makes clear that it was de jure segregation--the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments--that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day. 

  • The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

    BY JAMES MCBRIDE

    A story of a black man's tribute to his white mother.

  • The Color Purple

    BY ALICE WALKER

    The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel highlighting the life and hardships of a young black girl and her family as they go through life in the South and Africa. 

  • The Conversation: How Talking about Racism Can Transform Individuals and Organizations

    BY ROBERT LIVINGSTON

    Livingston's books aims to combat the discomfort and uncertainty that accompany racial conversations by increasing confidence, capacity, and commitment to engaging in racial dialogue.

  • The End of White Christian America

    BY ROBERT P. JONES

    Drawing on more than four decades of polling data, The End of White Christian America explains and analyzes the waning vitality of White Christian America. 

  • The Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America

    BY W.E. DUBOIS

    A look at African Americans’ contributions to the United States by the iconic leader whose life spanned from the Civil War to the civil rights movement. 

  • The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys

    BY EDDIE MOORE & OTHERS

    The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys  brings together research, activities, personal stories, and video interviews to help us all embrace the deep realities and thrilling potential of this crucial American task.

  • The Heart of Racial Justice: How Soul Change Leads to Social Change

    BY BRENDA SALTER MCNEIL & RICK RICHARDSON

    Racism as a spiritual battle

  • The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store

    BY JAMES MCBRIDE

    A mystery story, crime novel, an urban force, a sociological portrait of late 1960s Brooklyn.

  • The Land is Not Empty: Following Jesus in Dismantling The Doctrine of Discovery

    BY SARAH AUGUSTINE, FORWARD BY MARK CHARLES

    In The Land Is Not Empty, author Sarah Augustine unpacks the harm of the Doctrine of Discovery—a set of laws rooted in the fifteenth century.

  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

    BY MICHELLE ALEXANDER

    The US criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control

  • The Sin of White Supremacy: Christianity, Racism, & Religious Diversity in America

    BY JEANINE HILL FLETCHER

    The theology of Christian supremacy gave birth to the ideology of White supremacy

  • The Speeches of Frederick Douglass
  • The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

    BY HEATHER MCGHEE

    One of today's most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone, not just people of color.

  • The Warmth of the Other Suns: The EpIc Story of America's Great Migration

    BY ISABEL WILKERSON

    This book chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of Black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God

    BY ZORA NEALE HURSTON

    Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is the luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930s, whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to 70 years.

  • To Keep The Waters Troubled: The Life of Ida B. Wells

    BY LINDA O. MCMURRY

    To Keep the Waters Troubled is an unforgettable account of a remarkable woman and the and the times she helped to change.

  • Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice

    BY PAUL KIVEL

    Tools for helping white people work for equal opportunity, democracy and justice

  • Waking Up White

    BY DEBBY IRVING

    Irving's story of waking up to the reality of racism

  • White Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White

    BY DANIEL HILL

    This book will give you a new perspective on being white and also empower you to be an agent of reconciliation in our increasingly diverse and divided world.

  • White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

    BY ROBIN DIANGELO

    A look at "whiteness" for what it is; how to make things better

  • White Guilt

    BY SHELBY STEELE

    The age of white supremacy has given way to an age of white guilt—and neither has been good for African Americans.

  • White Like Me

    BY TIM WISE

    White Like Me is a personal account examining white privilege and his conception of racism in American society through Tim Wise's experiences with his family and in his community. 

  • White Rage

    BY CAROL ANDERSON

    An acclaimed historian reframes the conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America.

  • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria

    BY BEVERYLY DANIEL TATUM, PH.D.

    The classic, New York Times-bestselling book on the psychology of racism that shows us how to talk about race in America.

  • You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey

    BY AMBER RUFFIN & LACEY LAMAR

    Amber Ruffin writes with her sister Lacey Lamar with humor and heart to share absurd anecdotes about everyday experiences of racism.

Theology & Spirituality

  • Catholic Social Teaching

    BY EDWARD P. DEBERRI AND JAMES E. HUG

    Overview of the history of the Catholic Church's social teaching

  • The Challenge and Spirituality of Catholic Social Teaching

    BY MARVIN L. KRIER MICH

    Overview Catholic Church's social teaching; biographical stories and ethical analysis

  • Compassion: A Reflection on the Christian Life

    BY HENRI J. M.NOUWEN, DONALD P. MCNEILL. AND DOUGLAS A. MORRISON

    Where do we place compassion in our lives?

  • The Cultural Dictionary of the Bible

    BY JOHN J. PILCH

    100 distinctive, Middle-Eastern notions found in the Bible

  • Dorothy Day -- Selected Writings

    BY ROBERT ELLSBERG, ED.

    Reflects that faith and work of Dorothy Day

  • Dorothy Day -- Writings from Commonweal

    BY PATRICK JORDAN, ED.

    Articles, reviews, and published letters-to-the editor

  • Heart of Flesh: A Feminist Spirituality for Women and Men

    BY JOAN D CHITTISTER

    Feminist spirituality - shaped by compassion, humility, nonviolence, respect

  • A History of God

    BY KAREN ARMSTRONG

    Concept of God shaped and altered by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

  • Jesus Today

    BY ALBERT NOLAN

    The spiritually of Jesus and its relevance for us today

  • A New Heaven, A New Earth: The Bible and Catholicity

    BY DIANNE BERGANT

    The biblical notion of the relationship between human beings and the created world.

  • The Prophetic Imagination Second Edition

    BY WALTER BRUEGGEMANN

    Old Testament Scripture as it relates to contemporary issues

  • Redeeming Administration: 12 Spiritual Habits for Catholic Leaders

    BY ANN M. GARARIDO

    Stories of Catholic Saints depicting the 12 habits

  • A Sacred Voice is Calling

    BY JOHN NEAFSEY

    A personal story of vocation and social conscience

  • Transfiguration

    BY JOHN DEAR

    Finding peace and harmony within in a world torn by violence and hatred through following Jesus

  • Traveling with the Turtle

    BY CINDY PRESTON-PILE AND IRENE WOODWARD

    A Small Group Process in Women's Spirituality and Peacemaking

  • We Hold These Truths

    BY RICHARD W. MILLER, ED.

    Catholicism and American Political Life

  • We Make the Road by Walking: A Year-Long Quest for Spiritual Formation, Reorientation, and Activatio

    BY BRIAN D. MCLAREN

    This book's 50+ readings offer everything you need to explore what a difference an honest, living, growing faith can make in our world today.