Beached White Male Recommends

Reading – Books

Watching – Films

Listening – Podcasts

BWM Recommends

Reading – Books

Watching – Films

Listening – Podcasts

Here is a list of the resources that have informed, challenged, inspired and nurtured Ken in the past decade or more.

Focus: RACE

Books

  • Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation – Kristin Kobes Du Mez
  • The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism – Jemar Tisby
  • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabelle Wilkerson
  • White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin J. DiAngelo
  • Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
  • How to be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
  • White Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White, Daniel Hill
  • Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Bryan Stevenson 
  • Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know, Malcolm Gladwell
  • White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity, Robert P. Jones
  • The End of White Christian America, Robert P. Jones
  • The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead
  • The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
  • The Souls Of Black Folk, W.E.B. Dubois
  • We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, Ta-Nehisi Coates 
  • The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
  • Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America, Michael Eric Dyson
  • Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi
  • Twelve Years a Slave, Solomon Northrup 
  • The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander 
  • Jesus and the Disinherited, Howard Thurman 
  • America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America, Jim Wallis
  • The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America,  Michael Eric Dyson 
  • Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • The Cross and the Lynching Tree, James H. Cone

Films and Documentaries

  • The late Chadwick Boseman, national treasure (R.I.P.)
    • Black Panther
    • 42 – Jackie Robinson
    • Marshall – Thurgood Marshall
    • Get On Up – James Brown
    • Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – with Viola Davis on Netflix
  • OPRAH and Emmanual Acho on Apple TV – 
  • John Lewis: Good Trouble
  • Just Mercy
  • The Hate U Give
  • 12 Years a Slave
  • Harriet
  • If Beal Street Could Talk
  • BlackKKlansman
  • Same God – The Story of Larycia Hawkins
  • Free State Of Jones
  • 13th (2016)
  • I Am Not Your Negro (2016) (James Baldwin)
  • Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
  • Hidden Figures (2016)
  • The Birth of a Nation (2016)
  • RACE (Jesse Owens)
  • Straight Outta Compton (2015)
  • Selma

Podcasts