Bishops’ Committee on African American Catholics

	Here I Am, Send Me: A Conference Response to the Evangelization of African Americans.
	“Brothers and Sisters to Us” U.S. Bishops’ Pastoral Letter on Racism in Our Day.
	For the Love of One Another: A Special Message on the Occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of Brothers and Sisters to Us.
	Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself: U.S. Catholic Bishops Speak Against Racism.
	Reconciled Through Christ: On Reconciliation and Greater Collaboration Between Hispanic American Catholics and African American Catholics.
	“The Holy See and American Black Catholics: A Forgotten Chapter in the History of the American Church.”
	Black Catholics in Nineteenth Century America.
	“Black Community.” Tomorrow’s Church: What’s Ahead for American Catholics.
	No Cross, No Crown: The Journal of Sister Mary Bernard Deggs.
	Henriette DeLille, Free Woman of Color.
	Catholic Social Teaching and Minorities: [Church Has a Dismal Record of Identifying and Repudiating Racism].
	We've Come This Far by Faith: Black Catholics and Their Church.
	Taking Down Our Harps: Black Catholics in the United States.
	Ending Racism in the Church.
	From Slave to Priest: A Biography of the Rev. Augustine Tolton (1854-1897), First Afro-American Priest of the United States.
	Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860.
	In the Larger Black Community: Catholicism in Black Women in America.”
	Outsiders Within: The Oblate Sisters of Providence in 1830s Church and Society.
	African American Catholicism: A New Day.
	The Mission Ecclesiology of John R. Slattery: A Study of African American Mission to the Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century.
	Theology: A Portrait in Black. Black Catholic Theological Symposium Proceedings 1
	An Unwanted Commitment: The Spirituality of the Early Oblate Sisters of Providence.
	Praying in the Shadows: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, A Look at Nineteenth Century Black Catholic Spirituality.
	Discrimination and Racism in God’s House: The Case of The African-Americans and the Catholic Church in Nashville, Tennessee.
	Black Catholic Protest and the Federated Colored Catholics: 1917-1933. Three Perspectives on Racial Justice.
	Desegregating the Altar: The Josephites and the Struggle for Black Priests 1871-1960.
	A Patriot, A Priest, and A Prelate: Black Catholic Activism In Civil-War New Orleans.
	Minority Within a Minority: History of Black Catholicism in America.
	Black Catholics and Afro-American Religious History: Autobiographical Reflections.
	Working For Interracial Justice: The Catholic Interracial Council of New York, 1934-1964.

Black Authors on Racism and Diversity

	“A Statement of the Black Catholic Clergy Caucus” Black Theology: A Documentary History, Volume 1:1966-1979.
	Black and Catholic: The Challenge and Gift of Black Folk.
	A Study of Opinions of African American Catholics.
	The View from the Barber Shop.
	The Faith Community: One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic.
	An African-American Catholic Perspective on the Unity of the Church.
	Where is the Back Church on Racism: A Roman Catholic Perspective.
	Black Catholics and their Church.
	The History of Black Catholics in the United States.
	Strangers and Sojourners No More: The Emerging Consciousness of Black Catholics in the United States.
	James Cone and Recent Catholic Episcopal Teaching on Racism.
	Ethical Reflection Upon Environmental Racism in the Light of Catholic Social Teaching.
	Black Catholic Theology: Anger for the Sake of Justice.
	Catholics Should Stand Firm on Affirmative Action.
	Developments in Moral Theology: Change and Continuity in Catholic Social Teaching.
	The Social Dimensions of Sin and Reconciliation in the Theologies of James H. Cone and Gustavo Gutierrez. S.T.D.
	Moral Theology and the Pastoral Minister: Toward and Understanding of a Tradition in Transition.
	A Brilliant Possibility: The Cardinal Gibbons Institute, 1924-1934.
	Evangelization and the African American: Is The Church Listening.
	Pastoral Strategy for Evangelization from a Global pan-African Perspective.
	Black Catholics in the United States: A Historical Chronology.
	Recovery from Everyday Racisms.
	People of the Pyramids. The Dialogue Between the African American and the Hispanic/Latino Communities.
	Religious and Social Aspects of Roman Catholic and Black American Relationships.
	Our Roots and Gifts: Evangelization and Culture: An African American Catholic Perspective.

Racism & Diversity (General)

2009 Summer Reading

	From Slave to Priest: The Inspirational Story of Fr. Augustine Tolton
	Let it Shine!
	Hallelujah for the Day: An African PrayerBook
	Thea Bowman: In My Own Words
	Uncommon Faithfulness: The Black Catholic Experience

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