NOTES

CHAPTER 1: BEYOND COLORBLIND

1. Desmond Tutu and John Hope Franklin, “A Journey Towards Peace,” PBS interview, February 9, 2001, www.pbs.org/journeytopeace/meettutu/future.html.

2. Naomi Murakawa, The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), 7.

3. Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (New York: The New Press, 2012), 179.

4. Desmond Tutu, “Ten Pieces of Wisdom from Desmond Tutu to Inspire Change Makers in 2016,” Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation, January 3, 2016, www.tutufoundationusa.org/2016/01/03/ten-quotes-from-desmond-tutu-to-inspire-change-makers-in-2016.

5. Oscar Wilde, The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, ed. Russell Jackson and Ian Small (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 126.

6. United States Census Bureau, “About Hispanic Origin,” January 26, 2017, www.census.gov/topics/population/hispanic-origin/about.html.

7. Though ethnic stories also intersect with and are affected by our gender and sexuality, we will be focusing on ethnicity for the purposes of this book.

8. James Choung, True Story (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2008), 205-18.

CHAPTER 2: ETHNICITIES MADE FOR GOOD

1. Soong-Chan Rah, The Next Evangelicalism (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2009), 33.

2. Richard Twiss, Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2015), 125.

CHAPTER 3: THE CRACKS IN OUR ETHNICITY

1. “Asian American Teenage Girls Have Highest Rates of Depression,” National Alliance on Mental Illness, January 1, 2011, www.nami.org/press-Media/press-releases/2011/asian-american-teenage-girls-have-highest-rates-of#sthash.1b1W6nP4.dpuf.

2. “Suicide Among Asian Americans,” Asian American Psychological Association, May 2012, https://aapaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/AAPA-suicide-factsheet.pdf.

3. Krishna Ramanujan, “Health Expert Explains Asian and Asian-American Students’ Unique Pressures to Succeed,” Cornell Chronicle, April 19, 2006, www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2006/04/health-expert-explains-asian-students-unique-pressures-succeed.

4. Miroslav Volf, Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996), 81.

5. Hansi Lo Wang, “‘Awoken’ By N.Y. Cop Shooting, Asian-American Activists Chart Way Forward,” Code Switch, NPR, April 23, 2016, www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/04/23/475369524/awoken-by-n-y-cop-shooting-asian-american-activists-chart-way-forward.

6. Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (New York: The New Press, 2012), 6, 7, 98.

7. Lynn Langton and Matthew R. Durose, “Police Behavior During Traffic and Street Stops, 2011,” Bureau of Justice Statistics, September 24, 2013, www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=4779; and Sharon LaFraniere and Andrew W. Lehren, “The Disproportionate Risks of Driving While Black,” New York Times, October 24, 2015, www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/us/racial-disparity-traffic-stops-driving-black.html.

8. “Mental Health and African Americans,” U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Mental Health, http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/omh/browse.aspx?lvl=4&lvlid=24; and Vickie M. Mays, Susan D. Cochran, and Namdi W. Barnes, “Race, Race-Based Discrimination, and Health Outcomes Among African Americans,” Annual Review of Psychology 58 (January 2007): 201-25, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4181672/.

9. Mark Charles, Wirelesshogan, www.wirelesshogan.com.

10. This form follows the well-known prayer Teresa of Avila wrote of her difficulty in trying to truly love God: “Oh God, I don’t love you, I don’t even want to love you, but I want to want to love you.”

CHAPTER 4: ETHNICITIES RESTORED FOR BETTER

1. Richard Twiss, Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2015), 116.

2. Ibid., 186.

3. Levi Coffin, Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad (Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co.: 1880), 108.

4. “Rwanda’s Grass Courts,” New York Times, July 10, 2004, www.nytimes.com/2004/07/10/opinion/rwanda-s-grass-courts.html.

5. For more on Antione’s powerful story, see Antoine Rutayisire, Faith Under Fire: Testimonies of Christian Bravery (African Enterprise, 1973).

6. Corrie ten Boom with Elizabeth and John Sherrill, The Hiding Place, 35th anniversary ed. (Grand Rapids: Chosen Books, 2006), 247-48.

7. Caroline Praderio, “One Man Has Spent Years Befriending KKK Members and Persuaded 200 of Them to Leave the Hate Group,” Business Insider, December 28, 2016, www.businessinsider.com/daryl-davis-making-friends-with-kkk-documentary-2016-12.

8. Joan Chittister, God’s Tender Mercy (New London, CT: Twenty-Third Productions, 2010), 66.

9. Miroslav Volf, Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996), 124.

CHAPTER 5: REDEEMED ETHNIC IDENTITIES SENT OUT TO HEAL

1. Amy-Jill Levine, “Visions of Kingdoms,” ed. Michael D. Coogan, The Oxford History of the Biblical World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 366.

2. InterVarsity Twentyonehundred Productions, “Brent Campbell, Staff Conference 2014,” https://vimeo.com/83792223.

3. Martin Luther King Jr., “Pilgrimage to Nonviolence,” in A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writing and Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr., ed. James M. Washington (New York: Harper Collins, 1986), 38.

4. Jorge Maldonado, Greg Yee, and Kurt Peterson, “Strength Through Diversity,” The Evangelical Covenant Church, www.covchurch.org/history/diversity.

5. Mellody Hobson, “Be Color Brave, Not Color Blind,” TED Blog, March 20, 2014, http://blog.ted.com/be-color-brave-not-color-blind-mellody-hobson-at-ted2014/.

6. Carol Dweck, “The Power of Believing That You Can Improve,” TED Talk, December 2014, www.ted.com/talks/carol_dweck_the_power_of_believing_that_you_can_improve/transcript?language=en.

CHAPTER 6: TRUST-BUILDING WITH ETHNIC STRANGERS

1. Don Everts and Doug Schaupp, I Once Was Lost (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2008), 36-38.

2. Eugene A. Nida, Fascinated by Languages (Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003), 30.

3. Offensive terms span many different ethnic groups: nigger for black Americans, chink for Chinese or Asian Americans, redskin for Native Americans, wetback for Latino Americans, guido for Italian Americans, among others. This list can go on.

4. Christena Cleveland, Disunity in Christ (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2013), 61.

CHAPTER 7: CROSSCULTURAL SKILLS IN COMMUNITY

1. David A. Livermore, Cultural Intelligence (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2009), 19.

2. Ibid., 63.

3. “Connecticut Profile,” Prison Policy Initiative (Northampton, MA), accessed June 16, 2017, www.prisonpolicy.org/profiles/CT.html.

CHAPTER 8: RESPONDING TO CROSSCULTURAL CONFLICT IN COMMUNITY

1. The Situation-Behavior-Impact tool was developed by the Center for Creative Leadership (www.ccl.org) and is widely used in leadership and management coaching.

2. Brenda Salter McNeil, Roadmap to Reconciliation (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2015), 83.

CHAPTER 9: PROPHETIC ETHNIC JUSTICE

1. Martin Luther King Jr., “Pilgrimage to Nonviolence,” in A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writing and Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr., ed. James M. Washington (New York: Harper Collins, 1986), 37.

2. Nicholas Wolterstorff, Justice: Rights and Wrongs (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008), 110-13.

3. For more about racial segregation after the Federal Housing Act, see Kenneth T. Jackson, “Race, Ethnicity, and the Real Estate Appraisal: The Home Owners Loan Corporation and the Federal Housing Administration,” by Journal of Urban History 6, no. 4 (August 1980); and Natasha M. Trifun, “Residential Segregation After the Fair Housing Act,” Human Rights magazine, vol. 36, no. 4, www.americanbar.org/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/human_rights_vol36_2009/fall2009/residential_segregation_after_the_fair_housing_act.html.

4. “The House We Live In,” Race, the Power of an Illusion, PBS, episode 3.

5. Ibid.

6. N. T. Wright, Evil and the Justice of God (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2006), 64.

7. Brenda Salter McNeil, Roadmap to Reconciliation (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2015), 22.

8. See Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations,” The Atlantic, June 2014, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/, for an argument for reparations.

9. F. F. Bruce, New Testament History (New York: Doubleday, 1969), 40.

10. J. A. Motyer and G. J. Wenham, eds., “Cleansing of the Temple,” New Bible Commentary (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2007), 1030.

11. Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow (New York: The New Press, 2012), 180.

CHAPTER 10: CULTURE RE-CREATORS

1. Andy Crouch, Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2008), 90-98.

2. Traci G. Lee: “The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of MC Jin,” NBC News, April 9, 2015, www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/return-mc-jin-n324236.

3. Lamin Sanneh, Translating the Message (Marynoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1989), 200, 208.

4. Lamin Sanneh, Disciples of All Nations: Pillars of World Christianity (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), xxiii.

5. Makoto Fujimura, “What Do You Want to Make Today?,” Biola University, 2012 commencement address, www.makotofujimura.com/writings/what-do-you-want-to-make-today/ .