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Selected Bibliography on Building Hospitable Community: Confronting Bias, Countering Xenophobia

Dalton, Harlan, 1995. Racial Healing: Confronting the Fear Between Blacks and Whites. New York: Doubleday and Company.

Ellis, Anne Leo, 1996. First, We Must Listen: Living in a Multicultural Society. New York: Friendship Press.

Ferris, Elizabeth G., 1993. Beyond Borders: Refugees, Migrants and Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era. Geneva: WCC Publications.

Ferris, Elizabeth G., 1997 (in press). Refugees and Global Migration(working title). New York: Friendship Press. This is the book/study guide for the 1998 Friendship Press Mission Study Theme, Refugees and Global Migration.

Gardener, John W., 1991. "Building Community". Paper prepared for the Leadership Studies Program of Independent Sector. Baltimore, MD: Independent Sector Publications.

Nouwen, Henri J. M., 1975. Reaching Out. New York: Doubleday and Company. See especially the chapters on the movement from hostility to hospitality.

Palmer, Parker J., Barbara G. Wheeler and James W. Fowler, editors. 1990. Caring for the Commonweal: Education for Religious and Public Life. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press.

Quiroz, Julia Teresa. 1995. Together in Our Differences: How Newcomers and Established Residents are Rebuilding American Communities. Washington, DC: The National Immigration Forum.

Ross, Rosetta. 1996. "Hospitality and Xenophobia: Ethical Reflections on Contemporary U.S. Sentiments toward Immigrants." Paper presented at Building Hospitable Community Consultation, Norcross, GA. Available from Stanley Foundation, Muscatine, IA (see address on Resource sheet).

Rasmussen, Larry. L., 1993. Moral Fragments and Moral Community: A Proposal for Church in Society. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Fortress.

Ruether, Rosemary Radford. 1996. "Immigrant Rights are Human Rights", Paper presented at Building Hospitable Community Consultation, Mundelein, IL. Available from Stanley Foundation, Muscatine, IA (see address on Resource sheet).

Spohn, William C., 1996. "Moral Community: Boundaries on Hospitality?". Paper presented at Building Hospitable Community Consultation, Burlingame, CA. Available from Stanley Foundation, Muscatine, IA (see address on Resource sheet).

Theimann, Ronald, 1996. Religion in Public Life: A Dilemma for Democracy. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Wilbanks, Dana, 1996. Re-Creating America: U.S. Immigration and Refugee Policy in a Christian Perspective. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press.

Yearwood, John. 1996. "A Differences Approach" in Civic Partners, Spring, 1996 (A publication of the Pew Partnership for Civic Change, Charlottesville, VA) . Resource Information, Study Materials, Videos

B.I.A.S. Project (Building Immigrant Awareness and Support), 400 Second Avenue South, Suite 1050. Minneapolis, MN 55401. Phone: 612/341-3302; FAX 612/341-2971. Internet: mnadvocates@igc.apc.org. Curriculum Resources available. Video: The Energy of a Nation: Immigrants in America, with Study Guide.

California Working Group, 5867 Ocean View Drive - Oakland, CA 94618. Phone: (We do the Work Office) 510-547-8484; FAX 510-547-8844. Video: Not in our Town (PBS Special).

Center for Ethics and Social Policy, Graduate Theological Union, 2400 Ridge Road, Berkeley, CA 94709. Phone 510/649-2560. FAX: 510/649-1417. Voicing Values Project.

Civic Practices Network, Center for Human Resources, Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University, 60 Turner Street, Waltham, MA 02154. Phone 617/736-4890; FAX: 617/736-4891; e-mail: cpn@tiac.net.

Department for Studies, Division for Church in Society, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 1995. Christian Faith and U.S. Political Life Today. A Teaching and Discussion Resource. 8765 W. Higgins Road, Chicago, IL 60631. Available from ELCA Distribution Center, 800/328-4648.

EcuFilm, 810 12th Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37203. 1/800/251-4091. Video Tapes: Building Hospitable Community - a 2-hour video of the September 24, 1996 Teleconference, uncut edition; and two shorter videos: Hospitable Community: ISSUES and Hospitable Community: ACTIONS - each are 35-min Videos with Study Guides for use with discussion groups, adult forums, college classes, and in other settings.

Ecumenical Networks, National Council of Churches, 475 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10115. Phone: 212/870-2155; FAX: 212/870-2690. E-mail: Betty.Howe@ecunet.org. A 25-page reproducible Resource Packet on Building Hospitable Community: Confronting Bias, Countering Xenophobia is available at cost. Can be used with or without video tapes listed above under EcuFilm.

El Rescate, 1340 South Bonnie Brae, Los Angeles, CA 90006. Multi-service organization serving Central Americans in the United States. Phone: 213/387-3284. FAX: 213/387-9189; e-mail: elrescate@igc.apc.org.

Fargo/Moorhead Cultural Diversity Project, 810 4th Avenue South, Suite 147, Moorhead, MN 56560. Phone 218/326-7277; e-mail: HN4573@handsnet.org.

Friendship Press, 475 Riverside Drive, Room 860. NY, NY 10115. 800/841-6476.

Maryknoll World Productions. PO Box 308; Maryknoll, NY 10545. Phone: 1-800/227-8523. Video: The Ties that Bind. Available in Spanish and English.

Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights, 965 Mission Street, Suite 514, San Francisco, CA 94103. Phone: 415/227-0388, FAX: 415/543-0442; e-mail: nsdf@igc.apc.org.

National Council of Churches, Office of Communications, 475 Riverside Drive, Room 850 - NY, NY 10115. Phone: 212/870-2048. FAX: 212/870-2030. Home page: /. Click on Building Hospitable Community for more information.

National Council of Churches Immigration and Refugee Program/CWS, Information Office - 475 Riverside Drive, Room 658, New York, NY 10015. Phone: 212/870-3153; FAX 212/870-2132. Bulletin Insert available in color: Choosing to be with the Strangers in our Midst. E-mail: Jane@ncccusa.org

National Council of Churches Ecumenical Networks Office, 475 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10115. Phone: 212/870-2155; FAX: 212/870-2690. E-mail: Betty.Howe@ecunet.org

National Council of Churches Education for Mission/Friendship Press, 475 Riverside Drive, Room 860. NY, NY 10115. Phone: 1-800/841-6476.

National Council of Churches Office on Global Education/CWS, 2115 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218-5755. Phone: 410/727-6106; FAX 410/727-6108. Facts have Faces: Anti-immigrant Backlash (4 page study/action guide, available in Spanish and English). E-mail: Loretta.Whalen@ecunet.org

National Council of Churches Commission on Interfaith Relations, 475 Riverside Drive, Room 870, New York, NY 10115; Phone: 212/870-2156; FAX: 212/870-2158. jayr@ncccusa.org

National Endowment for the Humanities, A National Conversation on American Pluralism and Identity, 1994. NEH: The National Conversation, Washington, DC 20506. For information on the conversation resource kit which includes Founding Documents, Scholars Essays, Conversation Starters and a Handbook of Tips call 800/NEH-1121.

National Immigration Forum, 2201 "I" Street NE - #220, Washington DC 20002-4362. Phone: 202/544-0004; FAX: 202/544-1905.

Stanley Foundation, 216 Sycamore Street, Suite 500, Muscatine, IA, 52761-3831. Phone: 319/264-1500; FAX: 319/264-0864. Internet: jdwinship@stanfdn.org. Publish World Press Review Magazine and the Courier. Stanley is making available at no charge Building Hospitable Community Theological Reflections.

Study Circles Resource Center, PO Box 203, 697 Pomfret St., Pomfret, CT 06258; Phone: 860/928-2616; FAX 860/928-3713; e-mail: scrc@neca.com. SCRC offers a Study Outline for Building Hospitable Community. SCRC's goal is to advance deliberative democracy and improve the quality of public life in the United States.

World Council of Churches, A Moment to Choose: Risking to be with the Uprooted - A Study Guide. Refugee Migration Service, World Council of Churches, Box 2100, 1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland. E-mail: pej@wcc-coe.org. The WCC has designated 1997 as the Ecumenical Year of the Churches in Solidarity with Uprooted People.

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