TI2016 Resources

WATCH

You can watch videos from the conference here.

Videos of Our Speakers:

Duke University sociology professor Eduardo Bonilla-Silva offers some suggestions to white Americans who want to challenge the systems and institutions that give them privileges based on skin color.

Renouncing Privilege at the well in Samaria

The Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas finds a lesson about racial privilege in the story of Jesus's encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well.

Trinity Videos on Race:

Changing the Narrative

In this excerpt of his speech at the first of the Pre-TI Dialogues series, Bryan Stevenson, attorney, author, and advocate, urges us to change the narrative of racial difference created to justify slavery that still infects our country today.

Start Talking

The Most Rev. Dr. Thabo Makgoba, whose family was forcibly relocated when he was a teenager by the apartheid government and who is now Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has some practical advice for discussions about race and justice: start small.

Rebooting Our Prisons

Larry White, who runs a program inside New York prisons called Hope Lives for Lifers, once served a 25 years-to-life sentence and has a few recommendations, born of experience, of how a society should deal with crime and punishment.

READ

To help you get a taste of Trinity Institute and prepare for the rich conversations at this year’s conference on racial justice, below is a list of reading recommendations. These books from some of our speakers as well as other important voices are a great preface to the issues that we’ll discuss at TI2016, including structural racism, mass incarceration, and policy change.

Books by our speakers:

Michele Norris (bio) The Grace of Silence: A Family Memoir	Nicholas Kristof (bio) & Sheryl WuDunn A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (bio) Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America	Emilie Townes (bio) Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil
Kelly Brown Douglas (bio) Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God	Kelly Brown Douglas (bio) What’s Faith Got to Do with It?: Black Bodies/Christian Souls
Victor Rios (bio) Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys	Anna Deavere Smith (bio) Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
Anna Deavere Smith (bio) Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities

Other Suggested Reading:

Cornel West Race Matters	Michelle Alexander The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Bryan Stevenson Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption	Alice Goffman On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
Jennifer Harvey Dear White Christians: For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation	Howard J. Ross Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives
Claude M. Steele Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do	Shelly Tochluk Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It
john a. powell Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society	Derrick Bell Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
Keri Day Unfinished Business: Black Women, the Black Church, and the Struggle to Thrive in America	J. Kameron Carter Race: A Theological Account
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americanah