Welcome to the Biblical Justice Resources book list. These resources cover a variety of topics at a number of levels. This list is intended to cover numerous viewpoints on multiple issues. While the goal is for this list to become extensive, it should not be considered exhaustive.
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Memoir/narrative nonfiction
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. - Clayborne Carson
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass
My Bondage and My Freedom - Frederick Douglass
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America - Barbara Ehrenreich
The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Alex Haley
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life, Freedom, and Justice - Anthony Ray Hinton
The Other Side of the River: A True Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America’s Dilemma - Alex Kotlowitz
Holler if You Hear Me: The Education of a Teacher and His Students - Gregory Michie
Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup
His Name Is George Floyd - Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa
Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America - Helen Thorpe
Up From Slavery - Booker T. Washington
Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence - Keith Ellison
Anthropology
Deep South: A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class - Allison Davis, Burleigh B. Gardner, and Mary R. Gardner
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City - Matthew Desmond
Black Like Me - John Howard Griffin
History
Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63 - Taylor Branch
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 - Taylor Branch
At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68 - Taylor Branch
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West - Dee Brown
To The Mountaintop: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Mission to Save America: 1955-1968 - Stewart Burns
Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare? - James H. Cone
Charleston in Black and White: Race and Power in the South After the Civil Rights Movement - Steve Estes
The Lynchings in Duluth - Michael W. Fedo
Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America - Juan González
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America - Ibram X. Kendi
A Good Time For The Truth: Race in Minnesota - ed. Sun Yung Shin
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration - Isabel Wilkerson
How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America - Clint Smith
The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future - Robert P. Jones
Slavery’s Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State - Christopher P. Lehman
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice - Raymond Arsenault
political/social issues
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America - Richard Rothstein
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - Robin DiAngelo
Toward an End to Hunger In America - Peter K. Eisinger
We Do This ’til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice - Mariame Kaba
How to be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide - Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Race to Incarcerate - Marc Mauer
A Different Shade of Gray: Midlife and Beyond in the City - Katherine S. Newman
So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo
Peacemaking Circles: From Crime to Community - Kay Pranis, Barry Stuart, and Mark Wedge
Unequal Under Law: Race in the War on Drugs - Doris Marie Provine
Fear of Judging: Sentencing Guidelines in the Federal Courts - Kate Stith and Jose A. Cabranes
Race Matters - Cornel West
Philosophy
The Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B. DuBois
Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paolo Freire
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics - bell hooks