Recommended Reading

As noted, this is a Little Book about a very BIG topic. With this brief introduction to this approach to racial healing, we encourage you to continue your research, expand your understanding, and enhance your effectiveness in this important work. We offer the following resources, with chapter-by-chapter relevance, to get you started. Many more recommendations can be found at www.comingtothetable.org/lbrh.

Chapter 2: Trauma Awareness and Resilience

•   The Little Book of Trauma Healing, and Peace After Trauma website, with resources, webinars and a STAR-basics self-paced course: https:/peaceaftertrauma.com/ (both by Carolyn Yoder)

•   The Body Keeps the Score, by Bessel van der Kolk

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

•   The fundamentals of epigenetics: https://www.whatisepigenetics.com/fundamentals/

Chapter 3: Restorative Justice

•   The Little Book of Restorative Justice, by Howard Zehr

•   Restorative Justice in Urban Schools: Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline, by Anita Wadhwa

•   A Restorative Justice Reader, edited by Gerry Johnstone

•   Returning to the Teachings: Exploring Aboriginal Justice, by Rupert Ross

Chapter 4: Uncovering History

•   An Indigenous People’s History of the United States, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

•   A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes, by Adam Rutherford

•   Stamped from the Beginning, by Ibram X. Kendi

•   The Cross and the Lynching Tree, by James Cone

•   The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein

Chapter 5: Making Connections

•   The Healing Art of Storytelling, by Richard Stone

•   Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation, by Derald Wing Sue

•   The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, by Don Miguel Ruiz

Chapter 6: Circles, Touchstones, and Values

•   The Little Book of Circle Processes, by Kay Pranis

•   Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture, by Christina Baldwin

•   Wild & Wise: Sacred Feminine Meditations for Women’s Circles & Personal Awakening, by Amy Bammel Wilding

•   Circle Forward: Building a Restorative School Community, by Carolyn Boyles-Watson and Kay Pranis

Chapter 7: Working Toward Healing

•   Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out, by Ruth King

•   Radical Forgiveness, by Colin Tipping

•   Zero Limits: The Secret Hawaiian System for Wealth, Health, Peace, and More, by Joe Vitale and Ihaleakala Hew Len

•   My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, by Resmaa Menakem

•   Free Your Mind: An African American Guide to Meditation and Freedom, by Cortez R. Rainey

Chapter 8: Taking Action

•   The White Ally Toolkit: https://www.whiteallytoolkit.com/

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

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

•   Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum

•   The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks, by Randall Robinson

Chapter 9: Liberation and Transformation

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

•   Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist, by Franchesca Ramsey

•   Privilege, Power, and Difference, by Allan G. Johnson

•   Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America, by Michael Eric Dyson