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Books
Book Power
Recommendations from the leadership of UBE Myra McDaniel Chapter
- America's Original Sin, Jim Wallis and Bryan Stevenson
- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definite History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi
- The Half Has Never Been Told, Edward E. Baptist
- The Heart of Whiteness, Robert Jensen
- The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
- The Wolf Shall Dwell with the Lamb, Rev. Eric Law
- Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race, Debby Irving
- White Like Me, Tim Wise
A Suggested Reading List Created by Dr. Derrick Brown
Consider starting here:
- Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery, Na'im Akbar
- Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler
- The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire
- Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen
- There is a River, Vincent Harding
- Southern Horrors, Ida B. Wells
- The Miseducation of the Negro, Carter G. Woodson (anything by Woodson)
- The Ballot of the Bullet (speech), Malcom X
- A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn
- The Half Has Never Been Told, Edward E. Baptist
African American Studies
- Visions for Black Men, Na'im Akbar
- The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
- Faces at the Bottom of the Well, Derrick Bell
- Death of Innocence(Emmett Till Murder), Christopher Benson
- Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization, Anthony Browder
- Black Power, Stokely Carmichael
- Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins
- A Voice from the South, Anna Julia Cooper
- Women, Race and Class, Angela Davis
- Living to Tell About It, Darrell Dawsey
- Darkwater, W.E.B. DuBois
- Black Skin, White Masks, Franz Fanon
- The Death and Life of Malcolm X, Peter Goldman
- We Real Cool, Ain't I a Woman, Bell Hooks
- Our America, Lealan & Lloyd Newman Jones
- Introduction to Black Studies, Maulana Karenga
- Where Do We Go From Here; Letter From a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr.
- Savage Inequalities, Jonathan Kozol
- Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, Joy DeGruy Leary
- How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America, Mannning Marable
- What's Going On?, Nathan McCall
- Sister Citizen, Melissa Harris Perry
- Black Male Handbook, Kevin Powell
- Forty Million Dollar Slaves, William Rhoden
- The Debt, Randall Robinson
- The Hip Hop Wars, Tricia Rose
- The Isis Papers, Frances Cress Welsing
- Race Matters, Cornell West
Disproportionality in the U.S.: Updated Statistics
If you're White, you're at least ten times more likely to be wealthy.
As of 2014, the wealth of White households was 13 times greater than that of Black households and 10 times greater than that of Latino households. This wealth gap has grown since the end of the Great Recession.
If you're not White, you're twice as likely to be poor.
For the period 2007-2011, just over 10% of White Households were below the povety ine, while American Indians and Alaska Natives had a poverty rate of 27% Blacks had a poverty rate of 25.8%, and Latinos had a poverty rate of more than 20%.[1]
[1] Pew Research Center, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/12/12/racial-wealth-gaps-great-recession/
If you’re White, you’re about twice as likely to earn a Bachelor’s Degree.
In 2013, 94.1% of White students graduated from high school compared with 90.3% of Black students and 75.8% of Latino/Latina students. 40.4% of White students earned a Bachelor’s degree or higher, while only 20.5% of Black students and 15.7% of Latino/Latina students earned a Bachelor’s.[2]
[2] National Center for Education Statistics, http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_104.20.asp
If you’re not White, you will probably earn less than your White counterparts.
For the period of 1995 - 2012, Black and Latino/Latina workers aged 25 to 34 could expect to earn substantially less than their White counterparts. The median income from employment of White workers in this age group was $40,960. The median income of Black workers was $31,790, and the median income of Latino and Latina workers was 29,900. Even those who earned Mater’s Degrees experienced some salary discrimination. Whites with Master’s Degrees earned a median $56,950, while Blacks earned $54,660 and Latinos and Latinas earned $50,000.[3]
If you’re Black, you’re more than twice as likely to be unemployed as is a White person.
In 2014, Black people had an unemployment rate more than twice that of Whites--12.2% versus 5.4%. Latinos were unemployed at a rate of 7.4%.[4]
[3] National Center for Education Statistics, http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_502.30.asp
[4] Bureau of Labor Statistics, http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat05.pdf, http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat06.pdf
If you’re Black or Latino/Latina, you’re more likely to be sick.
- In 2006, Black people died from heart disease and stroke at far higher rates than did White people. 19.4% of White women died compared to 37.9% of Black women, and 61.5% of black men died compared to 41.5% of White men.[1]
- In 2010, nearly twice as many Black adults had diabetes than did White adults, and as of 2008, rates of diabetes among Latinos/Latinas was significantly higher than among White people.
- In 2010, Black adults had had the highest HIV infection rate. As of 2008, 73.7 per 100,000 Black people and 25 per 100,000 Latino/Latina people were infected with HIV as compared with 8.2 per 100,000 White people.[2](http://www.cdc.gov/minorityhealth/populations/REMP/black.html)
If you’re Black, you probably won’t live as long as you would if you were White.
- In 2009, White men lived an average of nearly six years longer than did Black men. White women lived nearly four years longer than did Black women. Latinos and Latinas of all races lived longer than Whites--a little more than two years for both men and women.[3]
- In 2010, more than twice as many Black infants than White infants died.[4]
If you’re Black or Latino/Latina, you’re more likely to live in inadequate or unsafe housing.
In 2009, Black people were 2.3 times more likely to live in inadequate housing than White people. Latinos/Latinas were two times more likely, and American Indians/Alaska Natives were 1.9 times more likely.[5]
If you’re Latino/Latina, you’re two and a half times as likely to be incarcerated as a White person. If you’re Black, you’re nearly six times as likely to be incarcerated as a White person.
- In 2010, 380 out of every thousand White people were incarcerated, while 966 out of every thousand Latinos and 2,207 out of every thousand Blacks were incarcerated.[6]
- While 14 million Whites and 2.6 million Blacks report using illicit drugs, Blacks are imprisoned for drug offenses at 5 times the rate of Whites.[7]
[1] Centers for Disease Control, http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su6001a13.htm?s_cid=su6001a13_w
[2] Centers for Disease Control, http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su6001a19.htm?s_cid=su6001a19_w#tab
[3] Centers for Disease Control, http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr62/nvsr62_07.pdf
[4] Centers for Disease Control, http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su6001a19.htm?s_cid=su6001a19_w#tab
[5] Centers for Disease Control, http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su6001a4.htm?s_cid=su6001a4_w
[6] Prison Policy Initiative, http://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/raceinc.html
[7] NAACP, http://www.naacp.org/pages/criminal-justice-fact-sheet
About Us
The Myra McDaniel chapter is an affiliate of the national organization, The Union of Black Episcopalians. The chapter advocates for and encourages greater involvement and particpation of members of the African Diaspora in all levels of the Episcopal Church.