Dialogues On: Race Learner Book

by lenny duncan, Rozella Haydee White, Daniel Hill

Dialogues Race Learner Book replicates a conversational experience by giving participants a reader on race in the United States. Each topic is packed with well-researched information and brought to life with the lived experience and stories of people at the center of the topic. Dialogues On brings your adult small group together to tackle difficult topics and turn conflict into community. In addition to the learner book, Dialogues Race
- Dialogues Facilitator Guide offers a structured guide for leaders to develop new communication skills and lead the session for the week.
- Dialogues DVD features a series of interviews to highlight the topic and help you dive deeper into issues around race. This curriculum contains topics for eight weeks of discussion in your small group for adults. Race is the third topic in the Dialogues On series, following Dialogues The Refugees Crisis and Dialogues Sexuality.

Genres: Nonfiction, Faith

125 pages, Paperback

Published August 8, 2019

About the author

lenny duncan (they/them) is a writer, speaker, scholar, and media producer working at the forefront of racial justice in America. lenny is the author of Dear Church, United States of Grace, and Dear Revolutionaries, and a co-creator of the podcast BlackBerryJams with PRX. A PhD student in historical and cultural studies of religion, lenny is currently researching what they call "a people's history of magic." lenny is originally from West Philadelphia, has hitchhiked thousands of miles on American byways, and makes their home up and down the I-5 with their found family, and in the East Bay area of San Francisco for research.

Reviews

[Don Hamilton · Rating 5 out of 5]

There are actually 8 authors contributing to this book. Read this if you want to possibly gain a new perspective on Racism while at the same time enjoy wonderful writing.

[Bruce · Rating 4 out of 5]

A series of essays by mostly BIPOC authors intended to facilitate discussions concerning how, in a purportedly Christian nation, people of color, people just as committedly Christian/spiritual as the white population, have consistently found themselves enslaved, disenfranchised, discriminated against, cheated, scorned, and killed by their white Christian neighbors. The common culprit pointed to in many of these essays is, not surprisingly, the system of white supremacy that is endemic in just about every facet of U.S. society. Most of the essays take an historical look at how we came to where we are. The one I learned the most from is "What Does It Mean to be White? History and the Social Construct of Race" by Daniel Hill, Senior Pastor of River City Community Church, Chicago. Excellent.

[Andra · Rating 4 out of 5]

A group of us at church have used this for the past 7 weeks to discuss race. This led to some good discussions and references to other books, articles and you tube videos.

[Lori · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a really helpful series for faith communities to begin an important conversation. It includes perspectives from a variety of cultures and intersections of oppression and racism. Video interviews and chapter authors are BIPOC.

[JJ]

Read this book as a follow-up to our churches action of reading "Dear Church". I am prayerfully considering how to lead a discussion at my internship site on this wealth of honest and hopefully transforming information.

[Meggan Manlove · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an excellent resource. I absolutely loved that each chapter was by a different author. It led to very good discussions. The accompanying videos are definitely worth watching too and some of the activities in the Leader Book are fabulous--helped us get to the work and not just absorb words on a page.

[Anne Bennett · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some of the essays are better than others. Or, more accurately, some of the essays spoke to me more clearly than others. What I appreciate about this collection is the very clear message to Christians "BE CHRISTLIKE AT ALL TIMES!" The church has a lot of changing to do concerning race and equality. The time for movement is NOW!

[Evelyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found every chapter to be brilliantly written and filled with jaw-dropping information. It’s an excellent book for discussions to dialogue about white supremacy in the institutional church. And then what we can do about it—hard work ahead.

[Kim · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent. I recommend every one read it and find a group to discuss it and the video material that accompanies it.

[Michele · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this book for a discussion class and learned so much from the essays in the book. An excellent starting place for learning about systemic racism and particularly in the church

[Dave Wright · Rating 2 out of 5]

Terrible