BLM and Black Theology

 

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Following the death of George Floyd there has been an increase in interest in Black Lives Matter, Black Theology and anti-racist material. Here is a list of resources that you might find helpful in looking further into how churches and individual Christians might think more deeply about and respond to these issues.
 

October 2020

 

Online resources

• SCM List of anti-racism resources
• Resmaa Manakem: Notice The Silence Notice The Rage Podcast
• Doing Theology in the era of Black Lives Matter – Greenbelt Talk
• Theology as Survival – Greenbelt Talk
• What the movement for black lives teaches us about Jesus – Greenbelt Talk
• But I’m not racist am I? – Greenbelt Talk
• White Saviour Complex Narratives – Greenbelt Talk
• No Justice, No Peace: Religion and Protest – Radio 4
• We need to talk about race: black experience in white majority churches – St Pauls event
• Black Lives Matter: Is the Church complicit? – A transatlantic conversation
• BLM, Covid 19 and the White Church Response – zoom webinar

Non-Fiction

• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race – Reni Eddo-Lodge
• How To Be An Antiracist – Ibram X.Kendi
• Your Silence Will not Protect you – Audre Lorde
• White Fragility – Robin Diangelo
• Natives – Akala
• Sister Outsider – Audre Lorde
• White – Richard Dyer
• Black and British – David Olosuga
• BRIT(ish) – Afua Hirsch
• Me and White Supremacy – Layla Saad
• Black, Listed: Black British Culture Explored: Jeffrey Boakye
• A Black Theology of Liberation – James Cone
• God of the Oppressed – James Cone
• The Cross and the lynching tree – James Cone
• Sisters in the Wilderness – Delores Williams
• Womanist Midrash – Wil Gafney
• We need to talk about race – Ben Lindsay
• Black Theology in Britain – ed Anthony Reddie
• Black Theology: SCM Guide – Anthony Reddie
• Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God – Kelly Brown Douglas
• Ghost Ship: Institutional Racism and the Church of England – A.D.A France Williams

Fiction

• Beloved – Toni Morrison
• The White Boy Shuffle – Paul Beatty
• Girl, Women, Other – Bernardine Evaristo
• If Beale Street Could Talk – James Baldwin
• Queenie – Candice Carty Williams
• N-W – Zadie Smith
• The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead
• Salvage the Bones – Jesmyn Ward