Ending Racism Committee 

The Ending Racism Committee works to end racism in our congregation and in the larger community. (Read our mission statement.) Typical activities include:

• Workshop on "Race and Parenting" featuring Barbara Matthias & Mary Ann French, authors of 40 Ways to Raise a Nonracist Child.
• Group racial justice theater outings with members of other local UU churches.
• Periodic "Creating a Jubilee World" Workshops, designed to help Unitarian Universalist congregations dismantle racism by allowing participants to examine both personal and institutional racism, and by empowering them to develop a realistic plan that can move their congregations forward in working for racial justice.
• A trip to the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.

The committee has written a brochure about white privilege and has put together a reading list of anti-racist books:

• George Lipsitz. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998
• James W. Loewen. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
• Toni Morrison. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.
• David R. Roediger, ed. Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White. New York: Schocken, 1999.