Challenging Our White Supremacy
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In the Community
Support for Police
It is understandable that some members of our community have mistaken the Black Lives Matter banner on the Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick as a commentary on the Brunswick Police Department, or on police in general. | Read more
UUCB/Bowdoin College Collaboration
On March 23rd, UUCB members and friends met at The Center for Multicultural Life at Bowdoin College to engage in conversation about race—an Intergroup Dialogue. | Read more
Resources
Links
Videos
- Decentering Whiteness in Worship _ Approximately 1 hour. Recorded on June 1, 2017 by Rev. Erika Hewitt, Dr. Glen Thomas Rideout, and Julica Hermann d e la Fuente.
- 13th _ Filmmaker Ava DuVernay explores the history of racial inequality in the United States, focusing on the fact that the nation’s prisons are disproportionately filled with African-Americans. (Available on Netflix)
- 1967 NBC News Interview by Sander Vanocur with Martin Luther King Jr. at Ebenezer Baptist Church
- Deconstructing White Privilege II
- Mackelmore’s White Privilege II rap
- Mark Morrison-Reed’s Minns lecture, March, 2017
- Rosemary Bray-McNatt’s Minns lecture, March 2017
- Oprah Winfrey reports on the Alabama memorial dedicated to thousands of African-American men, women and children lynched over a 70-year period following the Civil War.
- Starbucks Anti-bias Film
Audio Resources
- Garza, Alicia Garza, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, speaking at the Maine Women’s Summit on Economic Security Nov.22
- On Being podcast with Ta-Nahisi Coates
- Scene on Radio
- Shay Stewart Bouley and Debby Irving join Maine Calling to talk about race, racism and their “Cross-Racial Conversations” workshops.
Articles
- Their Ancestors Were on Opposite Sides of a Lynching. Now, They’re Friends
- Lynching Memorial
- Abyssinian Meeting House Restoration
- Bowdoin Guides Local Church Group in Race Dialogue
- Colorlines, a weekly periodical of news from African American perspectives. Published by Race Forward.
- McIntosh, Peggy. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
- Rethinking Schools issue devoted to Black Lives Matter
UU Authors; UU History and Theology
- Morrison-Reed, Mark, 1994. Black Pioneers in a White Denomination.(Boston: Skinner House.)
- Morrison-Reed, Mark, 2011. Darkening the Doorways: Black Trailblazers and Missed Opportunities in Unitarian Universalism. (Boston: Skinner House.) Also available electronically.
- Morrison-Reed, Mark, The Selma Awakening: How the Civil Rights Movement Tested and Changed Unitarian Universalism. (Boston: Skinner House.) Also available electronically.
- Thandeka, 2000. Learning to Be White. (New York: Continuum.)
General Books about Racism and White Supremacy
- Anderson, Carol, 2017. White Rage – The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide.
- Baldwin, James, 2017. I Am Not Your Negro.
- Coates, Ta-Nehesi, 2015. Between the World and Me. (New York: Spiegel and Grau.)
- Coates, Ta-Nehesi, 2017. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (New York: One World Publishing)
- Dyson, Michael Eric, 2017. Tears We Cannot Stop.
- Irving, Debby, 2014. Waking Up White.
- Kendi, Ibram X. 2016. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.(New York: Nation Books.) Available electronically.
- Morrison, Toni. 2017. The Origin of Others. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press.) Also available electronically.
- Shetterly, Margo, 2016. Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race (New York: Harper Collins)
- Stevenson, Bryan, 2014. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. (New York: Spiegel and Grau.)
- Wilkerson, Isabel, 2010. The Warmth of Other Suns.
New England History
- Nelson, Marilyn, 2003. Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem. (Ashville: Front Street.)
- Price, H.H. And Gerald E. Talbot, 2006. Maine’s Visible Black History: The First Chronicle of Its People. (Gardiner: Tilbury House.)
- Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North. Video documentary about one white family’s journey to trace the history of their slave trading Rhode Island family.