Now through February 17, you are able to check out books featured in a special collection at the Hennepin Ave UMC Library!
The Racial Justice Team has partnered with the Library Team to feature this special collection of books! Please stop by the library to check out this month’s collection of books featuring race-related topics.
We have all kinds of books — fiction, non-fiction, biblical study, even graphic novels — for youth, young adults, and older adults alike! Self-checkout is confidential and easy. Here is a full list of books available (the Library Team is always looking for new book ideas — email [email protected]). As we continue to showcase more books each week in Hennepin Happenings, we will feature them here as well!
White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by Robert P. Jones (Racial Justice, Racism-Religious Aspects, White Supremacy, Race relations, Church History)
White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Regina Jackson (Racial Justice, Anti-racism, White Women-Attitudes, Race Identity)
The Seed Keeper: A Novel by Diane Wilson (Dakota Indians, Minnesota, Foster Children, Farms, Families, Identity, Native Americans, Historical Fictions, Climate Change, UMW — Nurturing for Community, Racial Justice)
Rosa Parks & Claudette Colvin: Civil Rights Heroes by Tracey Baptiste (Graphic Novel, Racial Justice, Civil Rights Workers — Biography Montgomery Bus Boycott, African American Women, Segregation in Transportation)
Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano (Social Justice, Racism, Police Shootings, Gun Violence, Trauma, UMS–Nurturing for Community)
Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human by Cole Arthur Riley (African Americans–Religious Life, African Americans–Prayers and Devotions, Racial Justice)
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression, addiction, and grief–a novel about faith, science, religion, and love. Exquisitely written, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasi’s phenomenal debut.
Harriet Tubman: Toward Freedom by Whit Taylor
Harriet Tubman did something exceptionally courageous: She escaped slavery. Then she did something impossible: She went back. She underwent some thirteen missions to rescue around seventy enslaved people, using and expanding a network of abolitionists that became known as the Underground Railroad. She spent her life as an activist, speaking out for Black people and women’s suffrage. This modern account of her trip to save her brothers is detailed and authentic. Illustrated with care for the historical record, it offers insight into the life and mind of Tubman, displaying her as a woman with an unshakable desire to break the chains of an unjust society. It is a perfect anti-racist narrative for our times and deepens an understanding of just what freedom means to those who must fight for it.