Reading & Quizzes

Reading Response Papers

The following books are required reading for this course.

Davies, Susan E., Ed. Ending Racism in the Church (Cleveland: United Church Press, 1998).

Elmer, Duane. Cross-Cultural Conflict: Building  Relationships for Effective Ministry (Zondervan, 1993).

Foster, Charles R. and Theodore Brelsford. We are the Church Together: Cultural Diversity in Congregational Life (Trinity Press, 1996). 

Gonzalez, Justo L. Out of Every Tribe and Nation: Christian Theology at the Ethnic Roundtable. Nashville: Abingdon, 1992).

Kivel, Paul. Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice. (New Society, 1995).

Law, Eric H. F. The Wolf Shall Dwell With the Lamb (Chalice Press, 1993).

Lee, Jung Young. Marginality: The Key to Multicultural Theology (Fortress Press, 1995).

Thandeka, Learning to Be White (Continuum, 2000).

Short quizzes over the reading material will be given during the first 15 minutes of each class. The scores will be averaged together as one of the primary grades for the course.

Each student will be required to introduce the assigned reading material on one given afternoon with a prepared response paper.  This paper should be divided into two roughly equal parts and should (1) briefly summarize what the student understands the author to be saying followed by (2) a critical analysis of what the student understands the author to be saying. Failure to maintain an adequate balance between these two sections will result in a serious grade reduction on the paper, possibly even a failing grade. The paper should be 6-8 pages in length, neatly typed, double-spaced, using a
standard 12-pt. font, and enough photocopies made for the professor and each student to have their own personal copy.

At the beginning of the class, the student will read the paper. The class will then be allowed to ask "questions of clarification" and "questions of content" followed by a discussion of the paper and the reading material.

Papers under 6 pages in length or over 8 pages in length will not be accepted for credit or read in class. Don't even bother bringing them. Papers that do not maintain a roughly equal balance between the two required parts of the paper will not be accepted for credit or read in class. Don't even bother bringing them.

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