The Deeper Dive recommendations come from a diverse array of facilitators, participants, and advisors. They’ve been curated by a curriculum review committee that will also periodically revise/update the lists. The lists are by no means comprehensive.

The materials are offered for the sake of individual use, and circles may also decide to create structured use. For example, participants could sign up to review one or more of the supplementary materials for a particular session, and then offer insights during that particular session’s circle meeting. Or, circles that have completed the curriculum may find they wish to reconvene and create their own curriculum from these suggested resources.

• Films and Videos
  • “Slavery by Another Name” (2012), PBS, view the rest of the film on Sacred Ground site; also available on Kanopy
  • “Race – The Power of an Illusion” (2003), the other episodes (1-2), available on Kanopy
  • “Banished: A History of African American Expulsion” (2007), film available on Kanopy
  • “Jim Stewart’s Historical Tonic for Fragile White Folks” (2020), video series on YouTube
  • “Dakota 38” (2012), film on Vimeo
  • “Segregated by Design” (2019), film
  • “A Class Apart: A Mexican American Civil Rights Story” (2009), film aired on PBS  
  • “The Surprising Reason Behind Chinatown’s Aesthetics” (2021), video from “Vox Missing Chapter” 

• Books
  • “Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism” (2018), James W. Loewen
  • “Episcopalians & Race” (2003), Gardiner H. Shattuck Jr.; especially the chapter “Racial Paternalism and Christian Mission after the Civil War”
  • “How the Irish Became White” (1996), Noel Ignatiev
  • “A Nation of Nations: A Great American Immigration Story” (2015), Tom Gjelten
  • “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America” (2017), Richard Rothstein
  • “How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America” (1998), Karen Brodkin Sacks
  • “The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority” (2013), Ellen D. Wu
  • “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” (2020), Isabel Wilkerson
  • “Race in America” (2015), Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer

• Articles and Essays
  • “NYT Book Review: A Nation of Nations’ by Tom Gjelten” (Sept. 11, 2015), Helen Thorpe, The New York Times
  • “‘A Nation of Nations’ – Required Reading for the Immigration Debate” (Jan. 26, 2017), book review by Erica Barnes, Eagle News Online
  • “Catholic immigrants didn’t make it on their own. They shouldn’t expect others to” (April 18, 2017), Uda Cadegan, The Washington Post
  • “Are Jews White?” (Dec. 5, 2016), Emma Green, The Atlantic
  • “Jews struggled for decades to become white. Now we must give up white privilege to fight racism” (Sept. 22, 2015), Gil Steinlauf, The Washington Post
  • “The Mendez Family fought School Segregation 8 years before Brown v Board of Education” (Sept. 18, 2019), Dave Roos, History.com