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United Methodists Stand Against Racism

We recognize racism as a sin.

We commit to challenging unjust systems of power and access.

We will work for equal and equitable opportunities in employment and promotion, education and training; in voting, access to public accommodations, and housing; to credit, loans, venture capital, and insurance; to positions of leadership and power in all elements of our life together; and to full participation in the Church and society.

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Recommended Reading

  • The Punished Self

  • The Racial State

  • The Condemnation of Blackness

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

  • Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

  • The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Woodward, 1955 (MLK, Jr called it the “historical bible of the civil rights movement”)

  • Slavery by Another Name: Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, by Douglass A. Blackmon

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

  • So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

  • How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi (has a workbook version)

  • Stamped From the Beginning:The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X.

    Kendi. 2016

  • Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You , (a young adult version of Kendi’s award-winning book,

    will be published with Jason Reynolds by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers in March

    2020)

  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad (has a workbook version)

  • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum

  • I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (a Black woman

    given a White man’s name) by Austin Channing Brown

  • American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the American Underclass by Douglass

    Massey & Nancy A. Denton 1993

  • The Fire Next Time , by James Baldwin (in The New Jim Crow)

  • I Bring the Voices of My People by Chanequa Walker-Barnes

  • Latino Americans and The 500-Year Legacy That Shaped A Nation by Ray Suarez.