Yale University Library Research Guides: American Religious History: Select Ethnic Minorities

African American Religion

The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song by Henry Louis Gates A New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series.
Down in the Valley: An Introduction to African American Religious History (Online) by Julius H. Bailey Explores the survival of traditional religions and how African American religions have influenced and been shaped by American religious history. The text provides an overview of the central people, issues, and events in an account that considers Protestant denominations, Catholicism, Islam, Pentecostal churches, and other religious traditions in African American communities.
The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church's Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby; Lecrae Moore (Foreword by) Details how the American church has helped create and maintain racist ideas and practices in the United States, particularly in relation to African Americans.
Chosen People: The Rise of American Black Israelite Religions (Online) by Jacob S. Dorman The first comprehensive study of the rise of black Judaism in America

Moral Majorities Across the Americas (Online) by Benjamin A. Cowan Argues that Brazil and the United States played host to the principal activists and institutions who collaboratively fashioned the ascendant religious conservatism of the late twentieth century.
Mexican American Religions: An Introduction by Brett Hendrickson A concise introduction to the religious life of Mexican American people in the United States.
Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity (Online) by Robert Chao Romero A popular introduction book on the Latino church in the United States.

The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History by David K. Yoo (Editor); Eiichiro Azuma (Editor) A comprehensive commentary on the state of the field, simultaneously assessing where Asian American studies came from and what the future holds.
The Making of Asian America (Online) by Erika Lee An overarching history of Asian Americans by one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the subject.
Asian American Christianity Reader by Viji Nakka-Cammauf (Editor); Timothy Tseng (Editor) A collection of scholarly and religious articles about Asian American Christianity.

The Indian Great Awakening (Online) by Linford D. Fisher Tells the story of American Indians' attempts to wrestle with the ongoing realities of colonialism between the 1670s and 1820.
The Gods of Indian Country (Online) by Jennifer Graber Focuses on Kiowa Indians during Anglo-Americans's hundred-year effort to acquire, explore, and seize their homeland.
Religion and Culture in Native America by Suzanne Crawford O'Brien; Inés Talamantez (As told to) An introduction to a diverse array of Indigenous religious and cultural practices in North America, focusing on those issues in which tribal communities themselves are currently invested.
Perishing Heathens: Stories of Protestant Missionaries and Christian Indians in Antebellum America (Online) by Julius H. Rubin Tells the stories of missionary men and women who between 1800 and 1830 served as missionaries to Native peoples, especially the Osages in the Arkansas Territory, Cherokees in Tennessee and Georgia, and Ojibwe peoples in the Michigan Territory.