The book is 8 1/2 x 5 1/2, 80 pages, paperback, and retails for $9.95. It is available for purchase in bulk at discounts ranging from 10-50%, depending on the number purchased.

Reviews:

"I stopped by Greg Pierce’s ACTA office & bookstore on Friday to pick up the recently released “Witnesses to Racism” book, and love everything about this book.   This is such as wonderful book…..great title, powerful and moving stories, nice layout, and I love the cover picture."

Personal experiences of racial injustice

The people who tell the stories in “Witnesses to Racism” tell it from the vantage point of different ethnicities including African American, Latino, Native American, Japanese and Caucasian. This little book, copyrighted by the Office for Racial Justice and edited by Sr. Lois Prebil, osf, contains eleven heartfelt testimonies by members of the Archdiocese of Chicago – ten laypeople and one permanent deacon – about their own experiences with racial injustice. These inspiring witness talks were initially presented at the Workshops on Racism and Ethnic Sensitivity for parishes in the archdiocese.

What gives Catholics hope in combating racism? Sr. Anita Baird, DHM responds to that question in the preface: “The answer is revealed in the beauty of a mural that is painted on the wall of the chapel in St. Sabina Church on the Southside of Chicago and reproduced on the cover of this book. Around the table are men, women and children from every tribe and nation (some famous and others not), and in the center is a very faint image of Jesus. When the mural was being painted I asked the pastor, Father Michael Pfleger, why the image of Jesus was so faint. The answer I received is what keeps me doing the work of racial justice. ‘Until everyone is welcome at the table, Jesus cannot come into the fullness of his glory.’”