Book Reviews and Commentaries

Book Reviews and Commentaries

• The Spiritual Work of Racial Justice: A Month of Meditations with Ignatius of Loyola by Patrick Saint-Jean, S.J. Reviewed by Eileen Quinn Knight, Ph.D. Profiles in Catholicism

• The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto by Charles M. Blow. Reviewed by Diana L. Hayes National Catholic Reporter

• Racial Justice and the Catholic Church by Bryan N. Massingale Reviewed by Eileen Quinn Knight, Ph.D. Profiles in Catholicism

• Moment of Truth Reviewed by Tyler P. Tynes CondeNast Spotlight

• Birth of a Movement. Black Lives Matter and the Catholic Church by Olga M Sebura Reviewed by Brian Prega Patheos

• Four Hundred Souls Edited by Ibram X. Kendi Commentary by Alicia Pender National Catholic Reporter

• Black Catholics on the Road to Sainthood Edited by Michael R. Heinlein Interviewed by Carl E. Olson The Catholic World Report

• The Dead are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne Reviewed by Chris Byrd National Catholic Reporter

• Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing by Sarah Brayne Reviewed by Ken Klippenstein The Intercept

• Race & Religion in American Buddhism: White Supremacy and Immigrant Adaptation Adaptation by Joseph Cheah Reviewed by Eileen Quinn Knight, Ph.D. Profiles in Catholicism

• The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart. by Alicia Garza Commentary by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor The New Yorker

• Becoming Brave: Finding the Courage to Pursue Racial Justice by Brenda Salter McNeil Reviewed by Diana L. Hayes National Catholic Reporter

• The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw Commentary by Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service

• Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin Reviewed by Kevin Spinale  America

• Rediscipling the White Church by David W. Swanson  Reviewed by Kevin P. Considine U.S.Catholic

• Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin Commentary by Stephen G. Adubato America

• Learning from the Germans by Susan Neiman Reviewed by Eileen Quinn Knight, Ph.D. Profiles in Catholicism

• Religion Around Billie Holiday by Katherine Lucky Commentary by Tracy Fessenden Commonweal

• The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone Reviewed by Bill Leonard The Baptist

• The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist by Dorothy Day Reviewed by Father David O. Brown, O.S.M. Profiles in Catholicism

• Racism in America: Cultural Codes and Color Lines in the 21st Century by Leonard Pitts Jr. Reviewed by Valeria Stokes Profiles in Catholicism

• Book Extract from the Publisher In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History by Mitch Landrieu Reviewed by Ron Briley The Washington Post

• Subversive Habits. The untold history of black nuns in the United States Commentary by Ashley McKinless America

• Everyone Belongs Commentary by Contributor Catholic News Service/Crux

• Healing Racial Trauma – The Road to Resilience by Sheila Wise Rowe Patheos Commentary by Redbud Writers Guild Patheos

• The Southside: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation Reviewed by Eileen Quinn Knight, Ph.D. Profiles in Catholicism

• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum Reviewed by Eileen Quinn Knight, Ph.D Profiles in Catholicism