What To Read This Month: July. The Antiracist edition

I read a ton of books.  Every month I plan to share some recommendations with you.  Here are a few that you should read in July (and beyond):

• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X Kendi 

• The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby

• White Awake: An Honest Look at What it Means to be White by Daniel Hill

• Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique Morris

• Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-First Century by Monique Morris

• Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class by Mary Patillo-McCoy

• Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian by John Piper

• Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America by Michael Emerson 

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson 

• Heal Us, Emmanuel by Doug Serven

• White Fragility: Why It’s so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

• How to Be Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi

There are many many more books out there, this list is simply a starting point. I am appreciative of this moment we are in where people are seeking to learn about justice and reconciliation.