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Black Fire: One Hundred Years of African American Pentecostalism - Estrelda Y. Alexander

The Land is not Empty: Following Jesus in Dismantlin the Doctrine of Discovery - Sarah Augustine

Unsettling Truths: the Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery - Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah

Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare - James H. Cone

Stamped with the Image of God: African Americans as God’s Image in Black - ed. Cyprian Davis and Jamie Phelps

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation - Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Free at Last?: The Gospel in the African American Experience - Carl F. Ellis Jr.

Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America - Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith

The Gospel and My Black Skin: Confronting the Past, Reclaiming the Future - JP Foster

Birmingham Revolution: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Epic Challenge to the Church - Edward Gilbreath

Reconciliation Blues: A Black Evangelical’s Inside View of White Christianity - Edward Gilbreath

Hope and History: Why We Must Share the Story of the Movement - Vincent Harding

In the Shadow of Freedom: The Enduring Call for Racial Justice - Alessandra Harris

Undoing Manifest Destiny: Settler America, Christian Colonists, and the Pursuit of Justice - L. Daniel Hawk

All Oppression Shall Cease: A History of Slavery, Abolitionism, and the Catholic Church - Christopher J. Kellerman, SJ

When God Became White: Dismantling Whiteness for a More Just Christianity - Grace Ji-Sun Kim

All God’s Children: How Confronting Buried History Can Build Racial Solidarity - Terence Lester

A Short History of Christian Zionism: From the Reformation to the Twenty-First Century - Donald M. Lewis

The Protestant Church and the Negro: A Pattern of Segregation - Frank S. Loescher

Nonviolence in America: A Documentary History - ed. Staughton Lynd and Alice Lynd

God’s Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights - Charles Marsh

Racial Justice and the Catholic Church - Bryan N. Massingale

Ownership: The Evangelical Legacy of Slavery in Edwards, Wesley, and Whitefield - Sean McGever

God and Race in American Politics: A Short History - Mark A. Noll

How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity - Thomas C. Oden

The Coming Race Wars: A Cry for Justice, from Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter - William Pannell

The Black Church in the Post-Civil Rights Era - Anthony B. Pinn

Return to Justice: Six Movements That Reignited Our Contemporary Evangelical Conscience - Soong-Chan Rah and Gary VanderPol

Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity - Robert Chao Romero

Birth of a Movement: Black Lives Matter and the Catholic Church - Olga M. Segura

Swing Low, volume 1: A History of Black Christianity in the United States - Walter R. Strickland II

Swing Low, volume 2: An Anthology of Black Christianity in the United States - gen. ed. Walter R. Strickland II

From Nonresistance to Justice: The Transformation of the Mennonite Church Peace Rhetoric 1908-2008 - Ervin R. Stutzman

The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism - Jemar Tisby

The Spirit of Justice: True Stories of Faith, Race, and Resistance - Jemar Tisby

Let Justice Be Done: Writings from American Abolitionists 1688-1865 - ed. Kerry Walters

Plantation Jesus: Race, Faith, and a New Way Forward - Skot Welch and Rick Wilson

Black Religion and Black Radicalism: An Interpretation of the Religious History of Afro-American People - Gayraud S. Wilmore

Faith Communities and the Fight for Racial Justice: What Has Worked, What Hasn’t, and Lessons We Can Learn - Robert Wunthnow