Bridge builders are always in learning mode.
We are lifelong students of our own identity and other’s as well. One of the most common questions we are asked is, “Where do I learn more?”
It is a great question, and a layered question. We are all at different points in our journey, and we have different educational interests. We have put together a working list of resources we recommend for you to consider.
We regularly update our resources, so please check back often to see some new titles!
Healing Racial Trauma by Sheila Wise Rowe
My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
The Racial Healing Handbook by Anneliese A. Singh
Bread for Resistance by Donna Barber
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott
Becoming Rooted by Randy Woodley
This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley
The Book of Forgiving by
Black Fatigue by Mary-Frances Winters
Exclusion and Embrace by Miroslav Volf
The Three Mothers by Anna Malaika Tubbs
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry
Nurture Shock by Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman
Motherhood Across Borders by Gabrielle Oliveira
Raising White Kids by Jennifer Harvey
Parenting for Liberation by Trina Greene Brown
Shame Proof Parenting by Mercedes Samudio
Mothers, Mothering, and Motherhood by Andrea O’Reilly
Keepers of the Children by Laura M Ramirez
Untigering by Iris Chen
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain by Zaretta L. Hammond
Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol
Raising Race Questions by Ali Michael
What if All the Kids Are White? by
Other People’s Children by Lisa Delpit
Despite the Best Intentions by
Not Light But Fire by Matthew Kay
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks
Teaching White Supremacy by Donald Yacovone
Reading While Black by Esau McCaulley
Santa Biblia by Justo L. Gonzalez
Reparations by Decolonizing Evangelicalism by Invisible by Grace Ji-Sun Kim
The Very Good Gospel by Lisa Sharon Harper
Prophetic Lament by Soong-Chan Rah
Subversive Witness by Dominique DuBois Gilliard
Abuelita Faith by Kat Armas
I Bring the Voices of My People by Chanequa Walker-Barnes
Love Has a Story by Quina Aragon
I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton
Tattoos on the Heart by Gregory Boyle
Rest in Power by Sybrina Fulton & Tracy Martin
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
Once I Was You by Maria Hinojosa
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
When They Call You A Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele
Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
There There by Tommy Orange
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
Keurium by J S Lee
We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
A Young People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Parable of the Brown Girl by Khristi Lauren Adams
Stamped by Just Mercy: Young People’s Edition by Bryan Stevenson
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez
Black Boy White School by Brian F. Walker
Our Stories, Our Voices edited by Amy Reed
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be by Shannon Gibney
Carved in Ebony: Young Reader’s Edition by Jasmine Holmes
White Rage by Carol Anderson
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby
Harvest of Empire by Juan Gonzalez
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee
Indigenous People’s History of the US by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Undocumented by Dan-el Padilla Peralta
The Myth of Equality by Ken Wytsma
The Condemnation of Blackness by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Torn Apart by Dorothy Roberts
Two Worlds: Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects by Trace L Hentz
Harvest of Empire by Juan Gonzalez
Divided by Faith by Michael O. Emerson & Christian Smith
The Minority Experience by Adrian Pei
A Just Mission by Mekdes Haddis
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
So You Want to Talk About Race? by Ijeoma Oluo
Faith Rooted Organizing by Alexia Salvatierra & Peter Heltzel
They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
Fortune by Lisa Sharon Harper
The Black and the Blue by Matthew Horace
Biased by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Brown Faces, White Spaces by Latasha Morrison
Untangling Critical Race Theory by Ed Uszynski
Be the Bridge by Latasha Morrison
Twisted by Emma Dabiri
How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith
The Fire is Upon Us by Nicholas Buccola
Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
A Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry & Kali Nicole Gross
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
From Here to Equality by William A. Darity & A. Kirsten Mullen
Stand Your Ground by Kelly Brown Douglas
A Heart on Fire by Danielle Coke Balfour
Does God See Me? by Dieula Previlon
We Had a Little Real Estate Problem by Kliph Nesteroff
Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
All the Real Indians Died off and 20 Other Myths by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz & Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Unsettling Truths by Mark Charles & Soong-Chan Rah
Not a Nation of Immigrants by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
This Land is Their Land by David J. Silverman
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer
Shalom and the Community of Creation by Randy Woodley
Bitterroot by Susan Devan Harness
An African American and Latinx History by Paul Ortiz
Mi Casa Uptown by Rich Perez
Hermanas by Natalia Kohn Rivera, Noemi Vega Quiñones, & Kristy Garza Robinson
The God Who Sees by Karen González
Inventing Latinos by Laura E. Gómez
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Our America by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Dear America by Jose Antonio Vargas
The Next Worship by Sandra Maria Van Opstal
The Color of Success by Ellen D. Wu
America for Americans by Erika Lee
Glorious Weakness by Alia Joy
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
Sigh, Gone by Phuc Tran
Raise Your Voice by Kathy Khang
Where the Past Begins by Amy Tan
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Love, Loss, and What We Ate by Padma Lakshmi
Tell Me the Dream Again by Tasha Jun
Surviving the White Gaze by Rebecca Carroll
All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
Selling Transracial Adoption by Elizabeth Raleigh
Somebody’s Children by Laura Briggs
Adoptionland edited by Janine Myung Ja, Michael Allen Potter, & Allen L. Vance
Invisible Boy by Harrison Mooney
What White Parents Should Know About Transracial Adoption by Melissa Guida-Richards
Once They Hear My Name by Ellen Lee, Marilyn Lammert, & Mary Anne Hess
Growing Up in Black and White by Kevin D. Hofmann
In Their Own Voices by Rita J. Simon & Rhonda M. Roorda
Who Am I Really? by Damon Davis
Outsider’s Within edited by Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chenyere Oparah, & Sun Yung Shin
The Adoptee’s Journey by Cameron Lee Small
White Awake by Daniel Hill
Witnessing Whiteness by Shelly Tochluk
Can White People Be Saved? edited by Love L. Sechrest, Johnny Ramírez-Johnson, & Amos Yong
Mothers of Massive Resistance by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae
Subversive Southerner by Catherine Fosl
Rediscipling the White Church by David W. Swanson
After Whiteness by Willie James Jennings
White By Law by Ian Haney López
Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad
White Flight by Kevin M. Kruse
The Be the Bridge Podcast
Pass the Mic
Truth’s Table
Scene on Radio: Seeing White
Chasing Justice
Code Switch
Throughline
This Land
Pod Save the People
Asian Enough
Tamarindo
The Adoptee Next Door
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