Barbara Crain Major is a community organizer and trainer with over forty years of experience in local, national, and international community development efforts. This work includes assisting institutions in developing strategies to deinstitutionalize racism. She is a core anti-racism trainer for The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond. Major connects her local organizing to training in anti-racism with people who live in or work with struggling communities. Joseph Barndt is a Lutheran pastor, community organizer, teacher, and writer in the field of race and racism. He has been an anti-racism organizer for over four decades. Barndt has written several articles and books on racism and race relations, including his two most recent books, Understanding and Dismantling Racism: The Twenty-First Century Challenge to White America and Becoming an Anti-Racist Church: Journeying toward Wholeness, both from Fortress Press.
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INTRODUCTION 1 WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED ABOUT RACISM An Ocean, Not A Puddle 2 SYSTEMIC RACISM AND THE CHURCH A Tale of Two Churches 3 THE REPEATING PATTERN OF RACISM AND RESISTANCE What Is Really Going On? 4 RACISM'S PATTERN IN THE CHURCH The Changing Church That Never Changes 5 DECONSTRUCTING RACISM Game Changer 6 DERACIALIZINGING THE CHURCH Deconstructing the Church's White Foundations 7 THE COMING OF THE THIRD RECONSTRUCTION ERA Anti-Racist Reconstruction