Starlette Thomas Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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The raceless gospel extends a daily altar call but does not offer a post- racial deliverance. I create mourners’ benches where you can do the work.

The Evidence of Things Not Seen
James Baldwin
Reading James Baldwin’s The Evidence of Things Not Seen while thinking about my next column and thinking about Brother Jordan Neely and thinking about the media’s depiction of him. Baldwin writes, “They are not suspending judgment. They are creating judgment: ours.”
Paperback, 2023
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Jesus and the Disinherited
Howard Thurman
So remember when I said that I had received THE BEST gift EVER from @GFMediaOrg, a signed copy of Howard Thurman’s Footprints of a Dream? And then Pastor Aaron Tinch (@WatchTinch) gifted me an autographed copy of Jesus and the Disinherited?
Paperback, 1996
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The History of White People
Nell Irvin Painter
“[M]any Americans cling to race as the unschooled cling to superstition.” - Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People
Paperback, 2011
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The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
“If one is continually surviving the worst that life can bring, one eventually ceases to be controlled by a fear of what life can bring; whatever it brings must be borne.” | James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
Paperback, 1992
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Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself
Frederick Douglass
From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845) #racelessgospel https://t.co/XdbWW5cr9f
Paperback, 2014
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