Race
Books in this genre confront the complex realities of racial identity, justice, and power in society through personal stories, scholarly analysis, and cultural commentary. These vital works examine systemic racism, civil rights, mass incarceration, education reform, and the lived experiences of people of color across different times and places.
Race Book Summaries
Racism
A Short History
History
Race
Sociology
Whiteness of a Different Color
European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race
History
Race
Sociology
The Guarded Gate
Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America
History
Politics
American History
Red Summer
The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
History
American History
Race
The Law of Blood
Thinking and Acting as a Nazi
History
Politics
Germany
White Too Long
The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity
Religion
History
Race
Bring the War Home
The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
History
Politics
Race
Four Threats
The Recurring Crises of American Democracy
Politics
History
Political Science
Racial Innocence
Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality
Race
Social Justice
Latinx
White Flight
Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
History
Politics
Race
The Indispensable Enemy
Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California
History
Labor
Race
Racial Realignment
The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932–1965
Politics
History
Political Science
Stamped from the Beginning
The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
History
Race
Social Justice
Stony the Road
Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
History
Race
Politics
Categorically Unequal
The American Stratification System
Sociology
Politics
Economics
This Vast Southern Empire
Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy
History
American History
Politics
The Strange Career of Jim Crow
History
Race
American History
The Common Cause
Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution
History
American Revolution
American History
Deeply Divided
Racial Politics and Social Movements in Postwar America
Politics
History
Race
Bad Faith
Race and the Rise of the Religious Right
Politics
History
Religion
Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You
Busting Myths about Human Nature
Anthropology
Science
Psychology
The Color of Welfare
How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty
Sociology
Politics
History
White Supremacy
A Comparative Study of American and South African History
History
Race
American History
Southern Nation
Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction
History
Politics
Race
The Ground Breaking
An American City and Its Search for Justice
History
Race
Social Justice
Slavery's Constitution
From Revolution to Ratification
History
American History
Politics
A Different Mirror
A History of Multicultural America
History
Race
American History
The Long Southern Strategy
How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics
Politics
History
American History
The Right To Vote The Contested History Of Democracy In The United States
History
Politics
American History
White Borders
The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall
History
Politics
Race
Origins of the New South, 1877–1913
History
American History
Race
The Flag and the Cross
White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
Politics
Religion
History
The Promised Land
The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
History
Race
American History
Klan-destine Relationships
A Black Man's Odyssey in the Ku Klux Klan
Memoir
History
Biography
Not "A Nation of Immigrants"
Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
History
Politics
Race
Paths Out of Dixie
The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America's Deep South, 1944-1972
History
Politics
Political Science
Working Toward Whiteness
How America's Immigrants Became White: the Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs
History
Race
Sociology
Race and Manifest Destiny
Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism
History
Race
American History
Negro President
Jefferson and the Slave Power
History
Biography
Politics
Southern Politics In State and Nation
Politics
History
American
The Death of Reconstruction
Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901
History
American History
Politics
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean
History
Race
Politics
Race and Racism
A Comparative Perspective
Sociology
Anthropology
Race
The Day Freedom Died
The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
History
American History
Politics
Slave Country
American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South
History
American History
Labor
Slavery and the Founders
Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson
History
Race
American History
Home and Away
Historical Fiction
Sports
Race
Ethnic Boundary Making
Institutions, Power, Networks
Sociology
Politics
Race
Civic Ideals
Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History
History
Politics
American History
Separate and Unequal
The Kerner Commission and the Unraveling of American Liberalism
Politics
History
Race
