11 Important Books on Racial Justice
11 Important Books on Racial Justice
By: Brittany Shields
Happy MLK Day!
Today is the day we look back on the freedoms that Martin Luther King Jr. fought for and celebrate his courage and the progress that was made because of it.
Racial justice is still very much a topic of conversation, especially in the last few years with the creation of the Black Lives Matter movement.
There is much to be considered when we think about racial justice (and social justice) today. I’ve read many books on it and these are the books I believe are the most important.
They are not the mainstream books like White Fragility or How to Be an Antiracist.
They don’t deny racism, but they do not necessarily play into the mainstream narrative that racism is everywhere, all the time.
They are intelligent, compelling, and oh so important.
They ask hard questions. They counter the popular narrative with more than just opinions. They challenge our ways of thinking and promote clarity and charity.
You won’t hear much about these books in the media, but they will broaden your perspective and give you a fuller picture of all of what racial justice means today.
Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth: 12 Questions Christians Should Ask about Social Justice by Thaddeus J. Williams
The Intolerance of Tolerance by D.A. Carson
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas a Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation by Candace Owens
The Secular Creed: Engaging Five Contemporary Claims by Rebecca McLaughlin
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity— and Why This Harms Everybody by Helen Pluckrose & James Lindsay
Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism’s Looming Catastrophe by Voddie T. Baucham Jr.
Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian by John Piper
How the Nations Rage: Rethinking Faith and Politics in a Divided Age by Jonathan Leeman
What is the Mission of the Church?: Making Sense of Social Justice, Shalom, and the Great Commission by Kevin DeYoung and Greg Gilbert
Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage by Dan Crenshaw
Bonus Books: (books I read after creating this post)
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Talking About Race by Isaac Adams
Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Sowell
Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal by Matthew T. Martens
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