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Racial Justice Resources, Chapter 5: Culture & Womanism

You may read previous chapters here.

 Chapter 1: Disclaimers, Baby Steps, Intersectionality, and Critical Race Theory
Chapter 2: For Church Study, Feminist Work, & Theology
Chapter 3: News Sources & Organizations, Whiteness & White Supremacy
Chapter 4: History & Poetry

Culture, Etc.

 Between the World & Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Yellow: Race in America Between Black and White, by Frank Wu
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century, Updated & Expanded Edition, by Grace Lee Boggs with Scott Kurashige
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race, by Beverly Daniel Tatum
African American Religious Thought: An Anthology, by Cornel West and Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.

Womanism

 Womanism gets its own category.

 Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk, by Deloris Williams 
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose, by Alice Walker
Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne, by Wilda C. Gafney 
An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation, by Nyasha Junior
Womanist Theological Ethics: A Reader, edited by Katie Geneva Cannon, Emilie M. Townes, Angela D. Sims
Katie's Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community, by Katie Geneva Cannon
Feminist and Womanist Essays in Reformed Dogmatics, edited by Amy Plantinga Pauw and Serene Jones 
When Momma Speaks: The Bible and Motherhood from a Womanist Perspective, by Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder
Ain't I a Womanist, Too?: Third Wave Womanist Religious Thought, by Monica A. Coleman
Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology, by Pamela R. Lightsey
Just a Sister Away: A Womanist Vision of Women's Relationships in the Bible, by Renita J. Weems
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