Pursuing Racial Justice

Bellarmine Chapel Resource List

(Prepared by: BDRT - Bellarmine Dismantling Racism Team)

US Catholic Bishops’ Pastoral Letter on Racism:

  “Brothers and Sisters to Us” (1979)  

www.usccb.org/saac/bishopspastoral.shtml

  25th Anniversary Resources on “Brothers and Sisters To Us” (2004)

www.usccb.org/saac/25thperry.shtml

www.usccb.org/saac/25thanniv.shtml

  Research Report Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of “Brothers and Sisters To Us”

(Implementation Assessment- Principal Findings & Recommendations)

www.usccb.org/saac/ExecutiveSummary-GrayScaleFinal.pdf

Catholic Diocesan Resources:

  Archdiocese of Cincinnati – Office of African American Catholic Ministries

www.catholiccincinnati.org (select “Offices of Archdioc.”/“A-E”/“African-Amer. Ministries”)

  Article: “Taking Down Our Harps – Black Catholics in the United States ”

www.catholiccincinnati.org (search ‘Exact Phrase’… “Taking Down Our Harps”)

Diocese of Gary , Indiana - Bishop Dale Melczek’s Pastoral on Sin of Racism

Office of African-American Ministry: www.dcgary.org/office-african.htm

“Created in God’s Image” document: www.dcgary.org/pdf/Created-In-Gods-Image.pdf

“Created in God’s Image” study guide: www.dcgary.org/pdf/Gods-Image-Study-Guide.pdf

Archdiocese of Chicago – Office of Racial Justice

                     www.archchicago.org/departments/racial_justice/racial_justice.shtm

Catholic Groups Working Against Racism:

  Call to Action - “Anti-Racism Initiative” – www.cta-usa.org

 Catholic Charities USA – Report on “Poverty and Racism: Overlapping Threats…”

www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/NetCommunity/Document.Doc?id=614

www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=950&srcid=193

  Black Catholic Information Mall – www.bcimall.org

  Institute for Recovery from Racism/Racial Sobriety – www.racialsobriety.org

   Children’s Stories on Diversity & Race:

             “Black Like Kyra, White Like Me”, Judith Vigna.

“God’s Dream”, Archbishop Desmond Tutu & Douglas Carlton Abrams. (in narthex)

            “Swimmy”, Leo Lionni. (A little black fish among red fish finds how to protect them all!)

            “The Colors of Us”, Karen Katz.

            "Whoever You Are", Leslie Staub.

Books:

Barndt, Joseph. Understanding and Dismantling Racism: The 21^st Century Challenge…

Cassidy, Laurie M. and Mikulich, Alex. Editors.  Interrupting White Privilege: Catholic

Theologians Break the Silence. Orbis, 2007

Cone, James. Malcolm and Martin. Orbis Books

Ellison, Ralph. Native Son.

Gaines, Patrice. Laughing In the Dark.

Kivel, Paul. Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice.

Morrison, Tony. The Bluest Eye.

West, Cornell. Race Matters.

Williams, Clarence E. Racial Sobriety: A Journey from hurts to healing. 2002

Films / Videos:

            "Bowling for Columbine" (documentary about violence in America)

            "Eyes on the Prize"  (documentary about the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 60's)

                                     "Freedom on My Mind" (documentary on Mississippi voter registration struggles, 1961-64)

"The Long Walk Home" (featuring Sissy Spacic and Whoopie Goldberg)

"Malcolm X" (Spike Lee film, featuring Denzel Washington)

"Mr. and Mrs. Loving" (Racially mixed couple who took case to Supreme Court.)

"The Order of Myths" (Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama is still completely segregate)

"The Power of One" (powerful story of racial unity among youth amidst South African apartheid)

"Rosewood" (Based on historical event. Children who survived “recently” got compensated.)

"Scottsboro: An American Tragedy" (9 young men are falsely convicted of rape in 1931)

"To Kill a Mockingbird" (based on Pullitzer Prize novel, widely read book on race in America )

"Traces of the Trade" ( New England family member discovers family history in slave trade)

"The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till" (Story of a young man murdered for whistling at a white woman)

"The War" (features Kevin Costner, whose daughter befriends a new African-American student)