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2009 Multicultural Youth Leadership Event (MYLE) -- Resources
Pre-Event Resources
 
bullet MYLE promotional flier (Spanish PDF) (English PDF)

Check with your local library about resources listed below that you can use with your congregational group as they prepare to participate in the Multicultural Youth Leadership Event.

bullet Language Matters (coming fall 2008). This is a document that will help everyone coming to MYLE share in common language about what is ethnicity, what is race, what is culture, what is multicultural, and much more.
bullet Race: The Power of an Illusion. DVD documentary (3 sessions, each approximately 60 minutes long) produced by California Newsreel. Go to http://www.pbs.org/race/000_General/000_00-Home.htm for its Web site and additional resources.
bullet From Mambo to Hip Hop (due to be released summer 2008). DVD documentary produced by City Lore, Inc. Inquire at http://www.citylore.org/.
bullet Understanding and Dismantling Racism: The Twenty-First Century Challenge to White America, by Joseph Barndt. Fortress Press, 2007.
bullet Living in Color: Embracing God’s Passion for Ethnic Diversity, by Randy Woodley and John Dawson, 2004.
bullet Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White, by David R. Roediger, 2005.
bullet Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum.
bullet The Color Of Faith: Building Community in a Multiracial Society, by Fumitaka Matsuoka.

....more to come!

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