These MC USA webinars offer conversations between Mennonites of color about responding to racism within the Mennonite church. See the panelists’ recommended follow-up resources below.
Recommended Resources from our Race, Church & Change panelists
We asked the panelists from our Race, Church & Change webinar series to recommend a few impactful books and/or resources on race, change and the church.
Glen Guyton, first African American executive director of MC USA, ordained minister and keynote speaker/consultant on diversity and inclusion
- Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude Steele
- The End of White Christian America by Robert P. Jones
- I Am a Man by Steve Estes
Felipe Hinojosa, associate professor in the Department of History at Texas A&M University’s College of Liberal Arts, editor for the interdisciplinary online academic forum Latinx Talk and author of Latino Mennonites: Civil Rights, Faith and Evangelical Culture
- The Young Lords: A Radical Historyby Johanna Fernández
- The King of Adobe: Reies López Tijerina, Lost Prophet of the Chicano Movement by Lorena Oropeza
- A Journey to Freedom: Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power Movement by Kent Blansett
- Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington D.C. by Ashanté Reese
- Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century by A. Naomi Paik
Erica Littlewolf, from the Northern Cheyenne tribe of southeastern Montana, works for Mennonite Central Committee Central States with the Indigenous Visioning Circle, where she is committed to the work of decolonization, authentic relationship and healing
- Visit the Doctrine of Discovery: In the Name of Christ web page, hosted by the Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery Coalition, a group of Anabaptist leaders who work together to mobilize the church to dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery.
- Watch the documentary
- Read the study guide & Bible reflection
- Watch the documentary We Were Children on Native American residential schools in Canada.
- Watch Dawnland, available on PBS.org
Sue Park-Hur, MC USA denominational minister of Transformative Peacemaking and founder of ReconciliAsian, a peace center in Los Angeles specializing in conflict transformation and restorative justice for immigrant churches
- I Bring the Voices of Our People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation by Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes
- Unsettling the Word: Biblical Experiments in Decolonization by Steve Heinrichs
- At Home in Exile: Finding Jesus among My Ancestors and Refugee Neighbors by Russell Jeung
- Healing Our Broken Humanity: Practices for Revitalizing the Church and Renewing the World by Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Graham Hill
- The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee
Tobin Miller Shearer, professor of History, director of Undergraduate Studies, director of African American Studies at the University of Montana and author of Daily Demonstrators: The Civil Rights Movement in Mennonite Homes and Sanctuaries
- African American History
- There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America by Vincent Harding
- Race in America
- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
- Racism and the Church
- The Black Christ by Kelly Brown Douglas
- Dear White Christians: For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation by Jennifer Harvey, from the Prophetic Christianity series edited by Bruce Ellis Benson, Melinda Elizabeth Berry and Peter Goodwin Heltzel
- Mennonites and Racism
- Latino Mennonites: Civil Rights, Faith, and Evangelical Culture by Felipe Hinojosa