Images, Aspirations, and Lies We Tell Our Children

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​We’re pleased to offer the recording of this panel discussion. You can watch here (YouTube) or on Facebook where you can view the running discussion.

Here is a list of books recommended by the panelists.

• Monica Martinez, “The Injustice never leaves you”

• Natalia Molina, “How race is made in America”

• Johanna Fernandez, “the Young Lords: A radical history”
• Ibram X Kendi, “Stamped from the Beginning”
• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, “An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States”
• Nick Estes, “Our History is the Future”
• Marcus Rediker, “The Slave Ship”

​And the publications from the panelists.

• Felipe Hinojosa
  • Latino Mennonites: Civil Rights, Faith, and Evangelical Culture
  • Apostles of Change: Latino Radicals Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio (forthcoming 2021)
• Tobin Miller Shearer
  • Two Weeks Every Summer: Fresh Air Children and the Problem of Race in America
  • Daily Demonstrators: The Civil Rights Movement in Mennonite Homes and Sanctuaries
  • Enter the River: Healing Steps from White Privilege Toward Racial Reconciliation
  • Set Free: A Journey Toward Solidarity Against Racism (coauthors Iris de Leon-Hartshorn and Regina Shands Stoltzfus)
• Ruth Naomi Floyd
  • Frederick Douglass Jazz Works (music composition and project)
  • other music recordings
  • “Blues” chapter in It Was Good: Making Music to The Glory of God
  • “Common Grace and Loving Your Neighbor” chapter in The Problem of Good
• Jennifer Graber
  • The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West
  • The Furnace of Affliction: Prisons and Religion in Antebellum Americ