LVC is on a Journey to an Inclusive Community, forming and strengthening alliances among people of many cultures and communities, and by intentionally dismantling racism within LVC, the church, and society. LVC realizes that institutional racism profoundly impacts the social landscapes in which we live and work. LVC is dedicated to working toward becoming an inclusive community as an organization.
LVC promotes diversity and community within its board of directors, committees and staff, and promotes similar behavior among donors, placement organizations, volunteers and the larger community. LVC shall not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender identity, age, ability, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. Persons of color and/or whose primary language is other than English are encouraged to participate in LVC at all levels of the organization.
Listed below are a variety of resources that the LVC staff has used to guide them in their own personal and communal journey towards an inclusive community. Within the list you will find books, magazines, videos, documentaries and websites that might give you some ideas for doing anti-oppression work in your own life. Let us know if you have any resources that have helped you on your journey.
WEBSITES:
www.arc.org/ Applied Research Center
www.cwsworkshop.org/ Challenging White Supremacy Workshop
www.colorlines.com/ ColorLines Magazine
www.crossroadsministry.org/ Crossroads Ministry
www.mcc.org/us/antiracism/resources/topic.html/ Damascus Road Resource Page
www.elca.org/multicultural/racialjustice.html/ ELCA Racial Justice Website
www.ladiocese.org/ki/ The Kaleidoscope Institute
www.lhra.org/ Lutheran Human Relations Association
www.mcc.org/us/antiracism/ Mennonite Central Committee Antiracism Program
www.stanford.edu/group/King/ MLK Papers Project, MLK Research & Ed. Institute
www.pbs.org/race PBS resources on race
www.pisab.org/ The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond
www.whiteprivilege.com/ White Privilege
www.WACAN.org/ White Antiracist Community Action Network
www.ywca.org/ YWCA: Eliminating Racism, Empowering Women
BOOKS:
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
by Ronald Takaki
Against All Odds: The Struggle for Racial Integration in Religious Organizations
by B.Christerson, K.L. Edwards, and Michael O. Emerson
A Promise and a Way of Life: White Antiracist Activism
by Becky Thompson
Black Like Me
by John Howard Griffin
Black Voices
ed. by Abraham Chapman
Civil Rights Chronicle
ed. by Clayborne Carson
Crossing The Racial Divide- compilation of articles and study guide
by Sojourners magazine
Dismantling Racism: The Continuing Challenge to White America
by Joseph Barndt
Dreams from my Father
by Barack Obama
Hope in the Unseen
by Ron Suskind
How Race Is Lived in America
by New York Times Reporters
Lifting the White Veil
by Jeff Hitchcock
Malcolm X on Afro-American History
by Malcolm X
Not A Genuine Black Man
by Brian Copeland
Race Matters
by Cornell West
Race Rules
by Michael Eric Dyson
Roofwalker
by Susan Power
The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege
by Robert Jensen
The Hidden Wound
by Wendell Berry
The Mis-Education of the Negro
by Carter G. Woodson
Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
by Paul Kivel
We Can't Teach What We Don't Know: White Teachers, Multiracial Schools
by Gary Howard
White Like Me
by Tim Wise
White Men Challenging Racism: 35 Personal Stories
eds. by Thompson, Schaefer, and Brod
White Trash: Race and Class in America
eds. by Wray and Newitz
“Why Are All of the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" And Other Conversations About Race
by Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D
FILMS/DOCUMENTARIES/DVD’S:
Making Whiteness Visible, from World Trust-Org
People Like Us, from PBS (about classism)
Race: Power of an Illusion, from PBS
The Color of Fear, from StirFry Seminars
The Quest for Mental Health in a Racist Society, from Na’im Akbar Mind Productions & Assoc.
The Way Home, World Trust
A Time for Burning
What's Color Got to Do With It? from Abiding Savior Lutheran Church
Traces of the Trade by Katrina Browne
ARTICLES:
“Detour Spotting for White Anti-Racists”,
www.cwsworkshop.org/pdfs/WIWP2/9Detour_Spotting.pdf
“Flipping the Script: White Privilege and Community Building, Silver Spring, Md., and Conshocken, Pa.”
www.capd.org/pubfiles/pub-2005-01-01.pdf
“Still Separate, Still Unequal”
www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj0405&article=040541a
“What Happens When Your Hood Is the Last Stop on the White Flight Express” Taigi Smith
“White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” www.seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~mcisaac/emc598ge/Unpacking.html
“Freed in Christ: Race, Ethnicity and Culture”
www.elca.org/SocialStatements/freedinchrist/
“Breaking The Bonds and Troubling the Waters”
www.elca.org/multicultural/racialjustice.html
Current Event and News Websites:
www.news.newamericamedia.org/news/ New America Media
www.blacknews.com/ BlackNews.com
www.indiancountrytoday.com/ Indian Country Today
www.modelminority.com/ ModelMinority.com
www.latinousa.org/ Latino USA