- 1970-1995: Newspaper articles archive (1970-1995). — Collection of newspaper articles from 1970-1995.
- Jan T. Jasion. Abdu'l-Baha and "The Other" (2021-02). — On xenophobia; Abdu'l-Baha's response to it; his reactions to certain newspapers; the impact of xeno...
- Firuz Kazemzadeh. Abdu'l-Bahá in America, by Robert H. Stockman, and Abdu'l-Bahá's Journey West: The Course of Human Solidarity, ed. Negar Mottahedeh: Reviews (2013).
- Christopher Buck, Nahzy Abadi Buck. `Abdu'l-Bahá's 1912 Howard University Speech: A Civil War Discourse for Interracial Emancipation (2012-12-22). — Presentation at Grand Canyon Baha'i Conference on Abdu'l-Baha and the Black Intelligentsia, especial...
- Christopher Buck. Abdu'l-Baha's 1912 Howard University Speech: A Civil War Myth for Interracial Emancipation (2013). — Overview of the event, press coverage, publications of the speech, the Emancipation Proclamation "my...
- Amin E. Egea (published as Amin E. Egea Farzannejad). Abdu'l‐Bahá y la cuestión racial (2022). — Pese a compartir objetivos comunes, la perspectiva sobre la armonia racial del lider de la religión...
- Steven Gonzales. Affirmative Action and the Jurisprudence of Equitable Inclusion: Towards a New Consensus on Gender and Race Relations (1995). — The principle of equity and the Baha’i emphasis on unity in diversity as a basis for considering A...
- Richard Thomas. African American Baha'is, Race Relations and the Development of the Baha'i Community in the United States (2005-03-08). — Robert Turner, Susie Steward, Louis Gregory, and the roles played by blacks in the history of the Ba...
- Universal House of Justice. African Americans in the United States (1996-04-01). — Comments about what public role might be played by the Baha'i Faith in America to ameliorate the dif...
- Layli Maparyan. Africanity, Womanism, and Constructive Resilience: Some Reflections (2020). — The meanings of the metaphor "pupil of the eye;" experiences of growing up African-American in the W...
- Christopher Buck. Alain Locke (2004). — The life and ideas of the leading African-American intellectual Alain Locke and his involvement with...
- Christopher Buck. Alain Locke (2013).
- Christopher Buck. Alain Locke: 'Race Amity' and the Bahá'í Faith (2007-09-24). — Presentation in slide format about the "First Black Rhodes Scholar."
- Christopher Buck. Alain Locke: Baha'i Philosopher (2001/2002). — Biography of one of the important African American intellectuals and his impact on American thought ...
- Christopher Buck. Alain Locke and Cultural Pluralism (2004). — The worldview of the African American thinker Alain Locke as a Baha'i, his secular perspective as a ...
- Christopher Buck. Alain Locke on Race, Religion, and the Bahá'í Faith (2018). — Locke was cynical about the prospect of real progress in race relations within Christianity itself, ...
- Christopher Buck. Alain Locke's "Moral Imperatives for World Order" Revisited (2019). — In public speeches presented in 1944 Locke argues that racism, although an American problem, is not ...
- Derik Smith. Alain Locke: Faith and Philosophy, by Christopher Buck: Review (2008).
- Christopher Buck. Alain Locke: Race Leader, Social Philosopher, Bahá'í Pluralist: 94th Annual Commemoration of 'Abdu'l-Baha's 1912 Visit to Howard University (2006-04-15). — Available both as audio and PDF, and includes press release.
- Christopher Buck, Alain Locke. Alain Locke: Race Leader, Social Philosopher, Baha'i Pluralist: includes Alain Locke in his Own Words: Three Essays and a poem (2005). — Article by Buck, poem "The Moon Maiden" and three essays by Locke introduced by Buck: "The Gospel fo...
- Christopher Buck. "And universal peace — in what Book is this written?": How and Why 'Abdu'l-Bahá Identified "New" and Distinctive Bahá'í Principles (2022-09). — Reflections on ‘Abdu’l-Baha's answer to the question "What has Baha’u’llah brought that we h...
- Michael McMullen. Atlanta Bahá'í Community and Race Unity, The: 1909-1950 (1995 Summer). — History of the Baha'i faith in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, a city whose Baha'i community dates back alm...
- Christopher Buck. Bahá'í "Pupil of the Eye" Metaphor, The: Promoting Ideal Race Relations in Jim Crow America (2018). — On the notable contribution to promoting ideal race relations in Jim Crow America by the Baha'i Fait...
- Christopher Buck. Bahá'í 'Race Amity' Movement and the Black Intelligentsia in Jim Crow America, The: Alain Locke and Robert Abbott (2011). — W. E. B. Du Bois, Alain L. Locke and Robert S. Abbott, ranked as the 4th, 36th and 41st most influen...
- James S. Tinney. Baha'i Doctrine Attracts Non-whites (1983-10-20). — On the Baha'i Faith's progress toward racial unity; brief bios of Glenford Mitchell, Amoz Gibson, Wi...
- Loni Bramson. Bahá'í Faith and African American History, The: Introduction (2018). — Contents, Introduction, and Index from this book, with links to two chapters (by Christopher Buck).
- Hussein Ahdieh. Bahá'í History and Videos (2013-2022). — Links to Zoom videos on a variety of topics: Kahlil Gibran, the life of Varqa, Baha'i schools for gi...
- Richard Thomas. Bahá'í Response to Racial Injustice and Pursuit of Racial Unity, The: Part 1 (1912-1996) (2021-01). — The American Baha’i community’s historical efforts to address racial injustice which has afflict...
- Abe Levy. Bahá'ís have outsized MLK presence (2013-01-18). — Baha'is play an increasingly-active role in events celebrating the message of Martin Luther King.
- Rhett Diessner. Bahá'í Faith and Peace Psychology, The: The Potential for Science and Religion to Collaborate (1994). — On the potential for Bahá’í peace initiatives, coupled with empirical peace psychology approac...
- Ted Brownstein. Black and Beautiful: Skin Color in the Biblical Song of Songs (2023). — Racial biases can be found in several translations of the biblical Song of Solomon; a look at the or...
- Derik Smith. Centering the "Pupil of the Eye": Blackness, Modernity, and the Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh (2019). — The "pupil of the eye" metaphor is a deeply consequential, distinguishing feature of the transformat...
- Lex Musta. Champions of Oneness: Louis Gregory and His Shining Circle, by Janet Ruhe-Schoen: Review (2016).
- Donald Osborn. Colorblindness and Race Unity: One Bahá'í's Perspective (1997). — Reflections on race perspectives in the Baha'i writings.
- Chuck Egerton. CommonVisions: Photography and Conflict Transformation (2015). — How an arts-based photography project, built on the concept of the oneness of humanity, was used to ...
- Michael Karlberg. Constructive Imaginary, The (2020). — In a 2007 letter on the closing of the BIHE, the Universal House of Justice introduced the concept o...
- Shahrzad Sabet. Crisis of Identity, The (2023-01-17). — Exploring how the Baha’i principle of the oneness of humanity can resolve the seemingly intractabl...
- Universal House of Justice. Cultural Reconciliation in Canada (2000-06). — The Universal House of Justice suggests to the National Spiritual Assembly of Canada that their effo...
- Universal House of Justice. Cultural Reconciliation in Canada - questions (2001). — Reply from the House of Justice to a request for a reexamination of the assumptions on which its let...
- Marzieh Gail. Dawn over Mount Hira and Other Essays (1976). — A collection of essays on various topics of interest to Baha'i studies and history. Most of these we...
- Dianne Coin. Dear White Christians: For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation, by Jennifer Harvey: Review (2017).
- Universal House of Justice. Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Nine Year Plan (2022-11-01). — Matters relating to the Nine Year Plan (2022-2031), ethnic and cultural diversity, humanity's crisis...
- Archives Office of the United States Bahá'í National Center. Demographics of the United States National Spiritual Assembly (2016-03-17). — Percentage of women, African-Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Latino Americans serv...
- Universal House of Justice. "Double Crusade (2018-08-10). — Comments on what the double crusade means, how it relates to the current series of Plans of the Fait...
- Universal House of Justice. Eliminating Racial Prejudice and Activities of the Five Year Plan (2011-04-10). — Letter indicating continuing applicability of the statement of the Guardian on racial prejudice desp...
- Robert P. Powers. Experiment in Race Relations, A (1952). — An early program in race tolerance, preceding the Civil Rights movement, as described by a prominent...
- Aline Shane-Devin. Extracts from Notes Taken at Acca (1907-10). — [needs abstract]
- Benjamin Leiker. Faith, Theory, and Practice: Interracial Marriage as a Symbol of the Oneness of Humanity (2004-04).
- Harlan F. Ober. Richard Francis, ed. Gregory, Louis G.: The Advancement of Racial Unity in America (1993/1998). — Short biography of an early African-American Baha'i.
- Gayle Morrison. Gregory, Louis George (2009). — On the African American lawyer who became a leading Baha’i speaker, writer, administrator, and pro...
- William Stell. Guess Who's Coming to Church: The Chicago Defender, the Federal Council of Churches, and Rethinking Shared Faith in Interracial Religious Practice (2023-12). — Exploring "Go-to-a-White-Church Sunday" initiated by Robert S. Abbott (1922) and "Race Relations Sun...
- Christopher Buck. Harlem Renaissance (2013).
- Harvard Pluralism Project: Baha'i (2023). — Six overview essays on Baha'i history, beliefs, and practices. (Offsite)
- Christopher Buck, Derik Smith. Hayden, Robert (2019). — In his poetics of history and his nuanced representations of black life, Hayden's art showed that th...
- Christopher Buck. Interracial "Bahá'í Movement" and the Black Intelligentsia, The: The Case of W. E. B. Du Bois (2012-12). — Du Bois’s encounters with the Baha’i religion from 1910 to 1953, his connection to the New York ...
- Kathleen Jenkins. Intimate Diversity: The Presentation of Multiculturalism and Multiracialism in a High-Boundary Religious Movement (2003). — On the construction and maintenance of multiracial/ethnic networks in religious movements, through a...
- National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States. Introduction to a Statement on Race Unity (1997-12-17). — An informal letter on the "most challenging issue confronting America."
- Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi, Universal House of Justice. Helen Bassett Hornby, comp. Lights of Guidance: A Bahá'í Reference File (1988). — The classic Baha'i reference book. This is its first online edition.
- Christopher Buck. Arjen Bolhuis, comp. List of Articles on BahaiTeachings.org (2020). — List of online essays and articles by Christopher Buck since 2014.
- Guy Emerson Mount. Locke, Shock, and Abbott: Baha'i Theology and the Acceleration of the African American Civil Rights Movement (2010). — African American responses to Abdu'l-Baha's 1912 visit to America, Abdu'l Baha's teachings among pro...
- Frances Bradford Jones Edelstein. Memoirs of Frances Bradford Jones Edelstein (1999). — Memoirs of the first pioneer to Famagusta (as requested by Shoghi Effendi to pioneer from the City o...
- Universal House of Justice. Message on the occasion of the opening of the 2014 World Cup (2914-06-06). — Letter in response to the Brazilian president's invitation for a statement on global peace and harmo...
- Rúhíyyih Khánum. Message to the Indian and Eskimo Bahá'ís of the Western Hemisphere (1969). — Letter to Native American and Inuit believers, about the assurance given in the Baha'i Writings that...
- Vasu Mohan, Donna Denize, Nadim van de Fliert. Monologues on the Bicentenary of the Birth of Baha'u'llah and Howard University Visit Commemoration (2017-10/2018-04). — Five biographical monologues delivered in the fictionalized voices of Harriett Gibbs Marshall, Laura...
- Louis E. Venters. "Most Great Reconstruction": The Bahá'í Faith in Jim Crow South Carolina, 1898-1965 (2010). — The Faith enjoyed a period of growth from the 1960s-1980s that was largely inspired by interracial t...
- Gayle Morrison. New Creation, A: The Power of the Covenant in the Life of Louis Gregory (1999). — Louis Gregory's achievements, focussing on his promotion of the oneness of humankind, teaching the B...
- Universal House of Justice. New Race of Men and the meaning of "Tread Under", A (2013-09-13). — The meaning of the phrase "A race of men ... will tread under all who are in heaven." Includes compi...
- Richard Thomas. No Jim Crow Church: The Origins of South Carolina's Bahá'í Community, by Louis Venters: Review (2016).
- National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States. Oneness of Mankind, The: Basic Principle of the Bahá'í Faith (1956-05). — Statement of Baha'i teachings prepared in order to clarify the position of members of the Faith thro...
- Graham Hassall. Outpost of a World Religion: The Bahá'í Faith in Australia 1920-1947 (1991-06). — An updated version of a paper published in two places.
- Dorothy Baker. Path to God, The: 1937 (1937). — Essay published as a pamphlet about the goal of life, revelation and access to heaven, self-improvem...
- Báb, The, Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi. Bonnie J. Taylor, comp, National Race Unity Committee, comp. Power of Unity, The: Beyond Prejudice and Racism [excerpts] (1986).
- Will C. van den Hoonaard. Prejudice and Discrimination (1993-11). — Prejudice is cultural. History shows no society is immune. U.S. Baha'is facilitated Racial Amity gro...
- Christopher Buck. Public Discourse on Race: Abdu'l-Bahá's 1912 Howard University Speech (2012-02-10). — Presentation at Louhelen Bahá’í School on ‘Abdu’l-Baha and the black intelligentsia, his v...
- Báb, The, Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, Universal House of Justice. Bonnie J. Taylor, comp. Pupil of the Eye, The: African Americans in the World Order of Bahá'u'lláh (1998). — A compilation of references in the Baha'i writings to African-Americans and those of African descent...
- Michael Karlberg. Pursuit of Social Justice, The (2022-08-03). — An interdisciplinary examination of prevailing conceptions of human nature, power, social organizati...
- Maye Harvey Gift, Alice Simmons Cox. Race and Man: A Compilation (1943). — A collection of words of scientists, sociologists and educators, arranged to present the problem of ...
- Matthew Hughey. Race and Racism: Perspectives from Bahá'í Theology and Critical Sociology (2017). — Review of the concepts of race and racism based on social scientific understanding, in order to bett...
- June Manning Thomas. Race Unity: Implications for the Metropolis (1995). — Universal principles of unity which apply to cities; how racial disunity has been imprinted upon the...
- Christopher Buck. Race Unity Day (2011-09).
- June Manning Thomas. Race, Place, and Clusters: Current Vision and Possible Strategies (2017). — Division by place affects the possibilities for racial unity, especially in fragmented U.S. metropol...
- John S. Hatcher. Racial Identity and the Patterns of Consolation in the Poetry of Robert Hayden (1990). — The dramatic tension in Robert Hayden’s poetry has often been mistaken for personal ambivalence an...
- Amin E. Egea. Reading Reality in Times of Crisis: 'Abdu'l-Bahá and the Great War (2021-05-08). — How ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s analysis of the crises of His time was profoundly distinct from contemporan...
- June Manning Thomas. Reconsidering the Civil Rights Era in the Footsteps of 'Abdu'l-Bahá (2022-09). — On principles of racial prejudice and 1960s South Carolina, including the fallacy of racial prejudic...
- Roshan Danesh, Douglas White III. Rising to the Challenge of Reconciliation (2023-01-08). — Analyzing the legacy of colonialism and racism in Canada and examining the profound, multifaceted pr...
- John S. Hatcher. Road Less Travelled By, The (2017). — "From the Editor's Desk": Overview of this issue's articles regarding racism and proper responses to...
- Duane L. Herrmann. Robert Hayden and Being Politically Correct (1993-08). — Robert Hayden did not bow to or rebel against expectations of political correctness, and regarded hi...
- Benjamin Friedlander. Robert Hayden's Epic of Community (1998). — A study of Hayden's poetry in the context of the American experience.
- Deborah Clark Vance. Same Yet Different, The: Bahá'í Perspectives on Achieving Unity out of Difference (2002-05). — Based on in-depth interviews with members of the Baha’i Faith [in the USA] to uncover a descriptio...
- Deborah Clark Vance. Same Yet Different, The: Creating Unity Among the Diverse Members of the Bahá'í Faith (2002/2003 Winter). — A study of the process by which people form a unified community from diverse cultures based on inter...
- Jamar M. Wheeler. Seeking Light in the Darkness of "Race" (2017). — A historical sketch of how race concepts evolved, with analysis at macro and micro levels of society...
- Roger White. Settling the Score With Mr. Ogden Nash for the Seven Spiritual Ages of Mrs. Marmaduke Moore and Thereby Achieving if Not a Better Verse at Least a Longer Title (1979). — A dialogue for two readers, adapted from a poem.
- Jack McLean. Shoghi Effendi and Social Justice (2007-03). — The term "social justice” has been used by many engaged groups as a rhetorical tool to obtain more...
- Universal House of Justice. Social Action, Public Discourse, and Non-involvement in Political Affairs (2017-04-27). — Alternative courses of action to civil disobedience, circumscribed roles for protest, and the freed...
- June Manning Thomas. Spatial Strategies for Racial Unity (2020-09). — On the nature and approaches of Baha’i educational programs and community building efforts which s...
- Rúhíyyih Khánum. Spiritual Assembly's Growing Pains, A (1976). — A play, in 28 pages, showing "some of the workings of a Baha'i Spiritual Assembly: some of the blund...
- Spiritual Reinforcement: Study Questions, Compilation, and Quiz (1957 (?)). — Questions and quizzes for individual study and group discussion, on "what every Baha'i should know" ...
- John S. Hatcher. Still the Most Challenging Issue (2019). — "From the Editor's Desk": On race, racism, and the American Baha'i community.
- Marzieh Gail. Summon Up Remembrance (1987). — Memoir left by Ali-Kuli Khan, one of the first translators of Baha'i Writings; writings of his wife ...
- Ali Nakhjavani, Violette Nakhjavani. Three Talks in Africa (2001). — Three talks given in East London, South Africa circa August-September 2001, on personal reminiscence...
- Roger M. Dahl. Three Teaching Methods Used During North America's First Seven-Year Plan (1993). — Teaching methods used by American Bahá’ís to spread the Faith; firesides and teaching campaign...
- Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi, Universal House of Justice. Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, comp. To Set the World in Order: Building and Preserving Strong Marriages (2023-08). — The cause of unity; creating families that illuminate the world; the ideal milieu for learning the p...
- Jerome Green. Trial and Triumph: The Origins of the Bahá'í Faith in Black America (2004). — Focusing on a period between 1890 and 1940, this work addresses how Black America first encountered ...
- Universal House of Justice. Usage of the Word "Negro" in Writings of Shoghi Effendi (2021-01-21). — Brief letter about the historically evolving use of racial terminology, and avoiding offense.
- National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States. Vision of Race Unity: America's Most Challenging Issue (1991). — A formal statement from the US NSA on "the most challenging issue confronting America."
- Universal House of Justice. White Bahá'í Men as a sub-group combatting racism (2000-03-14). — Use of the phrase "white Baha'i men" in an anti-racism project in North Carolina.
- Anthony Lee. Ziba Khanum of Yazd: An Enslaved African Woman in Nineteenth-Century Iran (2017). — Issues of race, gender, slavery, and religion as experienced by an Afro-Iranian family in the 19th a...
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