Part of Beth Emet's social action mission has always been to be an active partner with people of other cultures, races and faiths. In keeping with that goal, we offer this list of resources you may find useful to explore. Documentaries & Films

● Body and Soul directed by Oscar Micheaux (1925) ​ ● Imitation of Life directed by Douglas Sirk (1959) ​ ● Shadows directed by John Cassavetes (1959) ​ ● Sapphire directed by Basil Dearden (1959) ​ ● Skin directed by Anthony Fabian (2009) ​ ● Little White Lie directed by Lacey Schwartz, James Adolphus (2014) ​ ● White People directed by Jose Antonio Vargas (2015) ​ ● The Interrupters directed by Steve James (2011) ​ ● Dope directed by Rick Famuyiwa (2015) (some sex and drugs, so not for more ​ sensitive viewers) ● Chi-Raq directed by (2015) (some sex and drugs, so not for more sensitive ​ viewers) ● A United Kingdom directed by Amma Asante (2016) ​ ● Loving directed by Jeff Nichols (2016) ​ ● directed by Nate Parker (2016) ​ ● 13th directed by directed by Ava DuVernay (2016) ​

Books

Fiction ● The Sellout by Paul Beatty ​ ● The Sympathizer by Viet Nguyen ​ ● Drown by Junot Diaz ​ ● The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz ​ ● Caucasia by Danzy Senna ​ ● A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines ​ ● The Good Lord Bird by James McBride ​ ● Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones ​ ● The Known World by Edward P. Jones ​ ● All Aunt Hagar’s Children by Edward P. Jones ​ ● Serious Men by Manu Joseph ​ ● For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf by ​ Ntozake Shange ● Reuben by John Edgar Wideman ​ ● Middle Passage by Charles Johnson ​ ● Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat ​ ● The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead ​ ● The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas ​ ● Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward ​

Non-Fiction ● The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot ​ ● Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson ​ ● Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum ​ ● Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates ​ ● Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan A Stevenson ​ ● Colour Bar by Susan Williams ​ ● Writing My Wrongs by Shaka Senghor ​ ● The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t, and Why by Jabari Asim ​ ● The Color of Water by James McBride ​ ● Black, White & Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self by Rebecca Walker ​ ● Darkwater: Voices From Within the Veil by W.E.B. Du Bois ​ ● The Sweeter the Juice by Shirlee Taylor Haizlip ​ ● Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward ​ ● Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine (essay and poetry) ​ ● We Are Who We Say We Are: A Black Family's Search for Home Across the Atlantic World by Mary Frances Berry ​ ● Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay ​ ● Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means to be Black Now by Touré ​ ● Post Black: How a New Generation is Redefining African American Identity by Ytasha ​ L. Womack ● Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon ​ ● Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson ● Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving ​

Articles

● How 'Privilege' Became a Provocation by Parul Sehgal, ​ ​ ​ ​ Magazine ● On the Death of Sandra Bland and Our Vulnerable Bodies by Roxane Gay, The ​ ​ ​ New York Times ● Who Owns Black Pain? by Zadie Smith, Hapers Bazar ​ ​

Interviews and websites

● Ta-Nehisi Coates at the 2015 Chicago Humanities Festival ● Shaka Senghor ● Campaign Zero

Podcast ● The Longest Shortest Time episode #116: How to Not (Accidentally) Raise a Racist