While this is by no means an exhaustive list of titles on theology, race, racism, and justice, we hope to highlight some noteworthy items available in the BC Libraries’ collections, and especially works by black theologians and leaders. For further resources, please see the BC Libraries Statement on Racism and Current Events. As always, the TML staff is here provide assistance if you have further questions around resources.
Articles:
“Authentically Black, and Truly Catholic”: A Survey of the Study of Black Catholics (by Kevin Winstead)
Black Liberation Theology and Black Catholics: A Conversation (by James Cone)
Cyprian Davis and the Black Intellectual Vocation (by Bryan Massingale)
Has the Silence Been Broken? Catholic Theological Ethics and Racial Justice (by Bryan Massingale)
Racism and the Vocation of the Theologian (by M. Shawn Copeland)
Warrants for Reconstruction: Christian Hegemony, White Supremacy (by Jeannine Hill Fletcher)
Books:
Anti-Blackness and Christian Ethics (edited by Vincent W. Lloyd; print copy)
Augustus Tolton: The Church is the True Liberator (by Joyce Duriga; print copy)
Beyond Apathy: A Theology for Bystanders (by Elizabeth Vasko)
Black and Catholic in the Jim Crow South: The Stuff that Makes Community (by Danny Duncan Collum; print copy)
Black Theology and Black Power (by James Cone; print copy)
A Black Theology of Liberation (by James Cone)
The Cambridge Companion to Black Theology (edited by Dwight N. Hopkins)
Constructing Solidarity for a Liberative Ethic: Anti-Racism, Action, and Justice (by Tammerie Day; print copy)
Daniel Rudd: Calling a Church to Justice (by Gary Bruce Agee; print copy)
Dear White Christians: For those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation (by Jennifer Harvey; print copy)
Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race and Being (by M. Shawn Copeland; print copy)
For My People: Black Theology and Black Church (by James Cone)
Hearing Past the Pain : Why White Catholic Theologians Need Black Theology (by Jon Nilson)
The History of Black Catholics in the United States (by Cyprian Davis)
I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation (by Chanequa Walker-Barnes; print copy)
Jesus and the Disinherited (by Howard Thurman)
Knowing Christ Crucified: The Witness of African American Religious Experience (by M. Shawn Copeland)
Moral Issues and Christian Responses (edited by Patricia Beattie Jung)
The Oxford Handbook of African American Theology (edited by Katie G. Cannon)
A Postcolonial African-American Re-Reading of Colossians (by Annie Tinsley; print copy)
Race: A Theological Account (by J. Kameron Carter)
Racial Justice and the Catholic Church (by Bryan Massingale)
Said I Wasn’t Going to Tell Nobody: The Making of a Black Theologian (by James Cone)
The Sin of White Supremacy: Christianity, Racism, and Religious Diversity in America (by Jeannine Hill Fletcher; print copy)
Standing in the Shoes my Mother Made: A Womanist Theology (by Diana Hayes; print copy)
The Subversive Power of Love: The Vision of Henriette Delille (by M. Shawn Copeland)
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. (by Martin Luther King, Jr.; print copy)
T & T Handbook on African American Theology (edited by Antonia Michelle Daymond)
Thea Bowman: Faithful and Free (by Maurice J. Nutt; print copy)
Theology and race : black and womanist traditions in the United States (by Andrew Prevot; print copy)
Toward a Womanist Ethic of Incarnation: Black Bodies, The Black Church, and the Council of Chalcedon (by Eboni Marshall Turman; print copy)
Uncommon Faithfulness: The Black Catholic Experience (by M. Shawn Copeland)
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism (by Robin J. DiAngelo)
Why We Can’t Wait (by Martin Luther King, Jr.)
If you have questions about the availability of materials or would like to suggest other titles for the Theology and Ministry Library’s collection, please contact Jennifer Butler at jennifer.butler@bc.edu. The library staff is always eager to learn of ways that they can improve their services to the BC community.