African American Religious Thought: An Anthology by Cornel West (Editor); Eddie S. Glaude (Editor)

The Black Church Studies Reader by Alton B. Pollard (Editor); Carol B. Duncan (Editor) Examines salient themes of social and religious significance such as gender, sexuality, race, social class, health care, and public policy. While the volume centers around African American experiences and studies, it also attends to broader African continental and Diasporan religious contexts.

Down by the Riverside: Readings in African American Religion by Larry Murphy (Editor) Provides an introduction to the development of African American religion and theology. Spanning the time of slavery up to the present, the volume moves beyond Protestant Christianity to address a broad diversity of African American religion from Conjure, Orisa, and Black Judaism to Islam, African American Catholicism, and humanism.

Setting Down the Sacred Past: African American Race Histories (Online) by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp Tracing previously unexplored narratives from the late eighteenth century to the 1920s, Laurie Maffly-Kipp brings to light race histories that African Americans wove together out of racial and religious concerns, especially among Protestants.

Black Fire Reader: A Documentary Resource on African American Pentecostalism by Estrelda Y. Alexander (Editor); A. G. Miller (Foreword by) This compendium of primary resources reflects the important but often overshadowed contribution of African American believers to the dynamic growth of the modern Pentecostal movement. Includes excerpts of doctrinal statements, sermons, songs, testimonies, news articles, as well as scholarly treatises.

Jim Crow America: A Documentary History (Online) by Catherine M. Lewis (Editor); J. Richard Lewis (Editor) A collection of primary source materials from 1828 to 1980 that reveal how the Jim Crow era affects how historians practice their craft. The book is chronologically organized into five sections, each of which focuses on a different historical period in the story of Jim Crow: inventing, building, living, resisting, and dismantling.

Race and National Power: A Sourcebook of Black Civil Rights from 1862 to 1954 by Christopher Waldrep Gathers together a collection of primary documents on the history of law and civil rights, specifically in regard to race. The sources covered include key Supreme Court decisions, some opinions from other courts as well, and texts written by ordinary people - the victims and perpetrators of racism and the lawmakers who wrote the statutes the courts must interpret.

Rhetoric, Religion, and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965 by Davis W. Houck (Editor); David E. Dixon (Editor) This volume chronicles how national movement leaders and local activists moved a nation to live up to the biblical ideals it often professed but infrequently practiced.