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Surprising Things We Say That Widen The Diversity Gap
BY MAURA CULLEN Even well-intended people can cause harm Have you ever heard yourself or someone else say: "Some of my best friends are... (Black, White, Asian, etc.)"? "I don't think of you as... (Gay, Disabled, Jewish, etc.)"? "I don't see color, I'm colorblind"? These statements and dozens like them can build a divide between us and the people we interact with. Though well-intended, they often widen the diversity gap sometimes causing irreparable harm personally and professionally. If you've ever wanted to be more effective in your communication with others, or have been afraid of saying the wrong thing, then this concise guide is essential to becoming more inclusive and diversity-smart.
Morgan James Press 2008 141 PP. Paper
$14.95 (in stock)
Black History And Culture Through Speeches, Letters, Editorials, Poems, Songs, And Stories
EDITED BY KAI WRIGHT A wide-ranging archive of more than four centuries of African American history and culture. More than 300 letters, speeches, articles, petitions, poems, songs, and works of fiction tracing the course of black history in America from the first slaves brought over in the 16th century to the events of the present day. All aspects of African American history and daily life are represented here, from the days of abolition and the Civil War to the Civil Rights movement and the current times. Organized chronologically, here are writings from the great political leaders including Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King and Barack. Also Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, James Baldwin, and Bell Hooks.
Black Dog 2009 720 PP. Paper
$22.95 (in stock)
BY BRITAIN YEARLY MEETING Where do Quakers stand? "Racism is a barrier that hides what God is doing in those we meet and in ourselves... the core of our Quaker life is about answering that of God in everyone. - Quaker Life Central Committee, (Britain YM) - Minute 28, June 2003." This useful tract from the Quaker Committee for Racial Equality has four sections on Consider, Contemplate, Act, and Your Meeting.
Britain Yearly Meeting 3 PP. Tract
$1.00 (in stock)
Racism And White Denial In The Age Of Obama
BY TIM WISE Race is, and always has been, an explosive issue in the United States. In this timely new book, Tim Wise explores how Barack Obama's Presidency is taking the race debate to new levels. For many white people, Obama's rise signifies the end of racism as a pervasive social force; a validation of the American ideology that anyone can make it if they work hard, and that institutional barriers against people of color have all but vanished. But is this true? No! The evidence is clear: white privilege and discrimination against people of color are still operative and actively thwarting opportunities, despite the success of individuals like Obama.
Open Media 2009 120 PP. Paper
$13.95 (in stock)
A Black Quaker's "voice From Within The Veil"
BY PAUL CUFFE, EDITED BY ROSALIND WIGGINS Paul cuffe was one of the few black Quakers of his day. Editor Rosalind Wiggins has collected this remarkable man's correspondence and ship's logs. She presents original manuscripts that tell the story of Cuffe's efforts to undercut the slave trade by forming a trading cooperative in Sierra Leone, thus linking the United States, England, and small West African nations. Wiggins shows the obstacles Cuffe faced: the War of 1812, a trade embargo, the network of African American organizations that provided him with help; and his concern for education within the black community.
Howard University Press 1996 528 PP. Cloth
$10.00 (in stock)
Taking On The Systems Of White Supremacy And Racism
BY CHIP SMITH White supremacy is more than mere prejudice. The Cost of Privilege tears through the matrix of "race relations" to expose a power structure that has shaped all economic, political and cultural life in the United States, since colonial settler days. On one side of the color line are systematic oppression, super-exploitation and demonization of people of color. On the other, a systematic awarding of privileges, large and small, to everyday working people who cling desperately to "whiteness" and often don't even recognize the role their lives play in a much bigger scheme. "This is the most comprehensive and clear analysis of racism and national oppression that I've seen." - Kozomi
Camino Press 2007 480 PP. Paper
$19.95 (in stock)
A History Of Mulitcultural America
BY RONALD TAKAKI Upon its first publication, A Different Mirror was hailed by critics and academics everywhere as a dramatic new retelling of our nation's past. Beginning with the colonization of the New World, it recounted the history of America in the voice of the non-Anglo peoples of the United States--Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and others--groups who helped create this country's rich mosaic culture. This new edition of A Different Mirror is a remarkable achievement that grapples with the raw truth of American history and examines the ultimate question of what it means to be an American.
Back Bay Books 2008 560 PP. Paper
$17.99 (in stock)
How To Create A World Without Rankism
BY ROBERT FULLER, PAMELA GERLOFF Fuller and Gerloff offer advice on the best ways to forcefully but compassionately bring rankist behavior to light. They include examples of rankism in action as well as the often surprisingly simple things people have done to counteract it. Perhaps most importantly, they show how we can prevent rankism from taking root in the first place. Dignity for All will help you map out your own personal strategy for creating a society in which every human being feels truly valued and respected.
BK 2008 86 PP. Paper
$13.95 (low stock)
36th Annual J Barnard Walton Lecture 2nd Edition 2006
BY DEBORAH ANN SAUNDERS "Don't go home the way you came." The 1999 Walton Lecture challenges Friends to live our testimonies, especially the testimony of equality. The author describes a personal and dynamic path inviting us to move out of our comfort zone and truly make our meetings reflect diversity.
Southeastern Yearly Meeting 2006 36 PP. Paper
$4.00 (in stock)
Beacon Hill Friends House Weed Lecture Series
BY HAROLD WEAVER Dealing with race in the United States brings many Friends to a stand-still. We brim with good intentions, but what to do? In his talk, Hal Weaver does more than just lay out the history and current state of this painful issue. He asks us to consider some answers. This thoughtful pamphlet can be the start of some deep and difficult reflection and discussion.
Beacon Hill Friends House 2008 39 PP. Paper
Quakers, African Americans And The Myth Of Racial Justice
BY DONNA MCDANIEL AND VANESSA JULYE There is a common misconception that most Quakers assisted fugitive slaves and involved themselves in civil rights activism because of their belief in equality. While there were Friends committed to ending enslavement and post-enslavement injustices, Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship reveals that racism has been as insidious, complex, and pervasive among Friends as it has been generally among people of European descent. The book documents the spiritual and practical impacts of discrimination in the Religious Society of Friends in the belief that understanding the truth of our past is vital to achieving a diverse, inclusive community in the future.
Quaker Press of FGC 2009 548 PP. Cloth
$45.00 (in stock)
Quaker Press of FGC 2009 548 PP. Paper
$28.00 (in stock)
BY THE FGC COMMITTEE FOR MINISTRY ON RACISM AND WREN ALMITRA This guide is designed to help readers explore more deeply the issues discussed in the book Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship: Quakers, African Americans and the Myth of Racial Justice by Donna McDaniel and Vanessa Julye. Filled with quotes, queries, and suggested activities, the guide can be used in meetings, reading groups, or individually.
Quaker Press of FGC 2009 Looseleaf
$18.00 (backorder)
BY FGC'S COMMITTEE FOR MINISTRY ON RACISM AND WREN ALMITRA This is a downloadable .pdf version of the study guide. When you order, after we confirm your purchase, we will send you a link to download the publication. This guide is designed to help readers explore more deeply the issues discussed in the book Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship: Quakers, African Americans and the Myth of Racial Justice by Donna McDaniel and Vanessa Julye. Filled with quotes, queries, and suggested activities, the guide can be used in meetings, reading groups, or individually.
Quaker Press of FGC 2009 PDF DOWNLOAD Blank
Some Black And Quaker Efforts 1680-1900
EDITED BY ELIZA COPE-HARRISON Essays by Margaret Hope Bacon, Charles L. Blockson, Roger Lane, Emma Jones Lapsansky, and Jean R. Soderlund discuss the Quaker role in the emancipation and education of African Americans.
Awbury Arboretum 1997 60 PP. Paper
$11.50 (low stock)
A Video Drama About Racism
FROM THE MENONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE A video that challenges white viewers to think about the privileges which come with being white in North America. A good discussion starter to begin the process of dismantling white racism
Mennonite Central Committee 1995 23 MIN. Video
$20.00 (backorder)
Congregations Building Multiracial Community
BY SHERYL KUJAWA-HOLBROOK Contrary to the oft-repeated truism, there are churches in America where Sunday is not the "most segregated day of the week," as Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook convincingly demonstrates in her compelling exploration of congregations tackling racial justice issues. Yet the truism continues to haunt many congregations, and Kujawa-Holbrook reveals, through story and thoughtful analysis, what it means to create and live out multiracial community. Focusing on six congregations from different denominations, geographical regions, and settings, the author shows us the joys and struggles in their intentional pursuits of a more diverse and just community.
Alban Institute 2003 248 PP. Paper
$19.00 (in stock)
BY DAMALI AYO A satirical look at race relations, premised on the renting of a token negro for events or occasions to gain white folks credibility as racially aware. The book gives insights for both the rental and the rentee based on the authors 30 years of experience. The most awful standard racial gaffes and insensitive comments are illuminated in a novel and memorable way. There are photo dramatizations (The expression on the rentals face as the rentee says "I was black in a previous life" is priceless…)and there are special tip boxes.
Lawrence Hill 2005 196 PP. Paper
A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy As The Largest Slave-trading Dynasty In U.s. History
BY THOMAS DEWOLF A trailblazing memoir about one family's quest to face its slave-trading past, and an urgent call for reconciliation. In 2001, Thomas DeWolf discovered that he was related to the most successful slave-trading family in U.S. history, responsible for transporting at least ten thousand Africans. This is his memoir of the journey in which ten family members retraced their ancestors' steps through the notorious triangle trade route-from New England to West Africa to Cuba-and uncovered the hidden history of New England and the other northern states. A companion book to the film Traces of the Trade.
Beacon Press 2009 626 PP. Paper
$16.00 (in stock)
Everday Interactions That Anger, Annoy, And Divide The Races
BY LENA WILLIAMS, FOREWORD BY CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT "A clear, honest yet humorous picture of the little things that often interfere with communication and friendship between blacks and whites. . . . Reading It's the Little Things is a must for those of us who are working to improve relationships and under-standing across racial lines." - Alvin Poussaint
Harvest Books 2002 288 PP. Paper
$14.00 (in stock)
BY NIYONU SPANN Niyonu Spann's passion for equal rights permeates this lecture-booklet. Her poignant queries require soul searching. Booklet includes words to three of her songs sung a cappella at the lecture. This is the record of the 2007 Michener lecture.
Southeastern Yearly Meeting 2007 20 PP. Paper
$5.00 (in stock)
How A Cantor And His Family Transformed A Klansman
BY KATHRYN WATTERSON Watterson tells how a Grand Dragon of the KKK, who was also a major Midwestern link in America's white supremacy movement, renounced his racist and Nazi activities after being befriended by a Jewish cantor and his family. Stories of the African-American, Vietnamese and Jewish communities and their history in Nebraska, as well as an examination of the inner life of one of the nation's terrorists in the white supremacy movement, provide a larger context for this story about hatred and love, courage and transformation, in America today. "Not by the Sword is," according to Cornel West, "one of the most powerful, painful, yet healing stories about our most explosive issue - race."
Northeastern Univ. 2001 363 PP. Paper
$7.50 (in stock)
The Religioius Society Of Friends And Colonial Racism - The 2006 James Backhouse Lecture
BY POLLY DAKSI WALKER "Although the original Quaker settlers held good intentions [in the United States], they were part of a larger system of colonial racism that legitimized the appropriation of Indigenous peoples and lands. Not only in the Americas, but also in colonized lands across the globe, a wrong spirit wrought devastation on all Indigenous peoples through a system of colonial racism." - the author, from the introduction In this lecture, Polly Walker draws on her Cherokee forebears and on interviews she conducted with Indigenous Australians to illustrate the damage and distress to Indigenous peoples caused by the continuing legacy of colonial racism in the United States and in Australia.
Australia Yearly Mtg. 2006 71 PP. Paper
$12.50 (in stock)
The Journey To Liberation
BY DERALD WING SUE "This uncompromising anti-racist manifesto written for a white audience is concerned less with Klansmen and skinheads than with the white woman clutching her purse when minority teenagers draw near; the white man flinching at getting in an elevator full of black men; even the well-meaning but patronizing liberal teacher in a ghetto school. Sue, a Chinese-American psychologist, argues that the countless daily slights inflicted by such `unconscious and unintentional racists,' do more harm to minorities than the occasional hate-crime. The book includes a seven-phase program for reconstructing a non-racist white identity." - Publishers Weekly
Jossey Bass 2003 297 PP. Cloth
$22.95 (low stock)
1492-present
BY HOWARD ZINN Consistently lauded for its lively, readable prose, this revised and updated edition of A People's History of the United States turns traditional textbook history on its head. Howard Zinn infuses the often-submerged voices of blacks, women, American Indians, war resisters, and poor laborers of all nationalities into this thorough narrative that spans American history from Christopher Columbus's arrival to an afterword on the Clinton presidency. "One reason these atrocities are still with us is that we have learned to bury them in a mass of other facts, as radioactive wastes are buried in containers in the earth." - Howard Zinn
Harper Perennial 2003 730 PP. Paper
$18.95 (in stock)
BY ALLAN G. JOHNSON Privilege, Power and Difference is a groundbreaking tool for people to examine systems of privilege and difference in our society. Written in an accessible, conversational style, Johnson links theory with engaging examples in ways that enable readers to see the underlying nature and consequences of privilege and their connection to it. "Allan Johnson teaches us how to think critically about inequality and oppression without getting mired in guilt and despair. He gently but firmly removes the blinders that keep us from seeing our own privileges and how those privileges harm others. Then he shows us how to walk the talk and turn our beliefs in justice and equality into practice."-Schwalbe
McGrawHill 2006 184 PP. Paper
Beginners Guide Series
BY ALANA LENTIN Despite the fact that we've spent hundreds of millions of dollars promoting tolerance, racism is still prevalent today. In fact, since 9-11 the subject of race, and exactly what this means, has become more important than ever before. Alana Lentin traces the development and mutation of ideas about race, through political history right up to modern debates about ethnicity and xenophobia, and considers the implications of a raceless society amid concerns about diluted traditions and identities. Thought-provoking and intelligent, this invaluable resource exposes the roots of racist thought, and reveals how it has remained a part of our everyday lives.
Oneworld - Oxford 2008 166 PP. Paper
$14.95 (low stock)
Growing Beyond Racism
BY VANESSA JULYE In this keynote address for the July 2005 New York Yearly Meeting annual sessions, Vanessa Julye addresses the reality of racism within the Religious Society of Friends. Stories from generations of her family, and the experiences of other Black Friends across time, make vivid the sense of isolation and barriers people of color face in the white, middle-class Friends culture. Vanessa Julye goes beyond critique, however, to present significant questions and additional resources as a ministry to heal and to empower Friends to "move further along the spectrum of racism."
Quaker Press of FGC 2006 32 PP. Paper
$8.00 (in stock)
The Paradox Of Race
BY PATRICIA J. WILLIAMS In these five eloquent and passionate pieces Patricia J. Williams asks how we might achieve a world where "color doesn't matter"--where whiteness is not equated with normalcy and blackness with exoticism and danger. Drawing on her own experience, Williams delineates the great divide between "the poles of other people's imagination and the nice calm center of oneself where dignity resides," and discusses how it might be bridged as a first step toward resolving racism. Williams offers us a new starting point--"a sensible and sustained consideration"--from which we might begin to deal honestly with the legacy and current realities of our prejudices.
Noonday Press 1998 80 PP. Paper
$11.00 (backorder)
The Quakers And The Abolitionist Dilemma, 1820-1865
BY RYAN P. JORDAN This study explores the limits of religious dissent in antebellum America, and reminds us of the difficulties facing reformers who tried peacefully to end slavery. In the years before the Civil War, the Society of Friends opposed the abolitionist campaign for an immediate end to slavery and considered abolitionists within the church as heterodox radicals seeking to destroy civil and religious liberty. In response, many Quaker abolitionists began to build "comeouter" institutions where social and legal inequalities could be freely discussed, and where church members could fuse religious worship with social activism.
Indiana University Press 2007 175 PP. Cloth
$29.95 (in stock)
Fit For Freedom, Not For Friendship - Paperback
Fit For Freedom Study Guide
The Seed Cracked Open
Fit For Freedom, Not For Friendship - Hardcover
Letting Go Of Illusion, Engaging Truth, Healing!
How To Rent A Negro
Dignity For All
Inheriting The Trade
35 Dumb Things Well-intended People Say
The African American Experience
