Resources

A list of required/recommended* readings on race/ism and white supremacy from my courses, as promised. Feel free to add more. #SocAF #SocTwitter #AcademicTwitter

*Diff based on access and affordability for my students, but they're all good options.

A 🧵(sorted by theme): 

On Scientific Racism, Past and Present

• • The Mismeasure of Man. -Stephen Gould

  • The Emperor’s New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium-Joseph Graves, Jr. @gravesjl55

  • The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea-Robert Sussman 

  • Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty / Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century-@DorothyERoberts

  • Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the 20th Century-Michael Yudell @PublicsHealth 

  • The Social Life of DNA. Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome-@alondra

  • Thicker than Blood: How Racial Statistics Lie-@TukufuZuberi

  • The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference-@AnnJMorning 

  • Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present-@haw95

  • Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code-@ruha9

  • Superior: The Return of Race Science-Angela Saini 

  • Politics of Racial Identity & Classification:

  • White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race-@IanHaneyLopez

  • Counting Americans: How the US Census Classified the Nation-@PaulSchor1 

On the Historical Exclusion of Black Scholars

• • The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology-Aldon Morris

  • The First American School of Sociology: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory-@EarlWrightII 

  • Ida: A Sword among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign against Lynching-Paula Giddings

  • The Women Founders: Sociology and Social Theory 1830–1930, A Text/Reader (Chapter 5)-Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Gillian Niebrugge 

  • "Theory on the other Side of the Veil: Reckoning with Legacies of Anti‑Blackness and Teaching in Social Theory.” in The American Sociologist-Angela Fillingham & @zra_research 

Foundation of Black Radical/Feminist Traditions

• • A Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the United States, 1892–1894-Ida B. Wells-Barnett

  • The Souls of Black Folk / Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 / Darkwater- W.E.B. Du Bois 

  • A Voice from the South, by a Black Woman of the South-Anna Julia Cooper

  • The Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois: Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line-@JoseItzigsohn & @karida_leigh 

Black Radical Tradition

• • The Fire Next Time-James Baldwin

  • Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition-Cedric Robinson

  • The Wretched of the Earth-Franz Fanon

  • Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America-Kwame Ture and Charles Hamilton 

Black Feminist Thought

• • Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment /Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism-Patricia Hill Collins

  • Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism-bell hooks 

  • Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color-@sandylocks

  • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches-Audre Lorde

  • Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis-@zakiyaluna and @thePhDandMe

  • Thick: And Other Essays-@tressiemcphd 

  • Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination-Toni Morrison

  • The Combahee River Collective Statement-@DemitaFrazier, Beverly Smith & @TheBarbaraSmith

  • The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom-@TheBarbaraSmith 

  • Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity-@CRileySnorton

  • How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective-@KeeangaYamahtta

  • Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women's Digital Resistance-@moyazb 

  • Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul / Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl’s Love Letter to the Power of Fashion-@soulistaphd

  • Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction-@DrSamiSchalk 

  • Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women / Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower- @ProfessorCrunk

  • The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred-@IBJIYONGI 

Racialization & Colonialism

• • Borderlands/la frontera: The New Mestiza-Gloria Anzaldúa

  • Not a “Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion-@rdunbaro 

  • Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor-Evelyn Nakano Glenn

  • Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy: Denaturalizing U.S. Racisms Past and Present-

  • Moon-Kie Jung

  • The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies-@LethaboKing 

  • Forever Suspect: Racialized Surveillance of Muslim Americans in the War on Terror-@SaherSelod 

Macro-Theories

• • Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s-Michael Omi & @hwinant

  • The Racial Contract-Charles Mills

  • Systemic Racism: A Theory of Oppression-@JoeFeagin 

  • Racial Theories in the Social Science: A Systemic Racism Critique-Sean Elias & @JoeFeagin

  • White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era / Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States-Eduardo Bonilla-Silva 

Readings on #Whiteness & #WhiteSupremacy

• • White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide-@ProfCAnderson

  • "Whiteness as Property” in Harvard Law Review-Cheryl Harris

  • The Invention of the White Race, Volumes 1 & 2- Theodore Allen

  • The White Racial Frame: Centuries of Racial Framing and Counter-Framing-@JoeFeagin

  • White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness-Ruth Frankenberg

  • White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America-@MaggieHagerman

  • When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America-Ira Katznelson

  • The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics-George Lipsitz

  • Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland-@JonathanMetzl

  • Reproducing Racism: White Space, Elite Law Schools, and Racial Inequality-Wendy Leo Moore

  • The History of White People-@PainterNell

  • Two-Faced Racism: Whites in the Backstage and Frontstage-Leslie Houts Picca & @JoeFeagin

  • The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working-class-@roediger_david

More on Critical Race Theory

• • And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice / Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism- Derrick Bell

  • Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class-@IanHaneyLopez

  • Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement-@sandylocks, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, & @Ill_Legitimacy

  • On Critical Race Theory: Why Its Matters & Why You Should Care-@victorerikray

  • More readings on #Racism, #WhiteSupremcy & #Antiblackness:

  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness-Michelle Alexander @thenewjimcrow

  • Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness-Simone Brown

  • Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlige of Mass Incarceration-@reubenjmiller

  • Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court-@nvancleve

  • The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America-@KhalilGMuhammad

  • The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions-Vilna Bashi Treitler

  • Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality-@ProfessorTKH

  • How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts- @Prof_NataliaM

  • One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy-@ProfCAnderson

  • How to Be Less Stupid About Race-@alwaystheself

  • The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy-@RaulPerezSoc

  • The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America-Richard Rothstein

  • From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation-@KeeangaYamahtta

  • From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America / America on Fire: Police Violence, Black Rebellion and the Fracturing of a Nation-@elizabhinton

  • Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side-@eveewing

More great readings on race/ism

• • Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C.-@AMReese07

  • Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in The American South,-@piko_e

  • Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era-@drashleyfarmer

  • The Power of Race in Cuba: Racial Ideology and Black Consciousness during the Revolution-@ProfClealand

  • Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence and Performance in Brazil-@profsassy

  • Diverse Pathways: Race and the Socioeconomic Incorporation of Black, White, and Arab-origin Africans in the US / Global Epidemics, Local Implications: African Immigrants and the Ebola crisis in Dallas-Kevin J. A. Thomas

Black Feminist Masculinities

• • Respectable: Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse Man-@saigrundy

  • Breaking the Silence : Toward a Black Male Feminist Criticism-@blkeducator

  • New Black Man: Tenth Anniversary Edition-@NewBlackMan

Education

• • Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice-@CarlaShedd

  • Integration Interrupted: Tracking, Black Students, and Acting White After Brown-Karolyn Tyson

  • Rac(e)ing to Class: Confronting Poverty and Race in Schools and Classrooms-@MilnerHRich

  • Black, Brown, Bruised: How Racialized STEM EducationStifles Innovation-Ebony McGee

  • Inequality in the Promised Land: Race, Resources, and Suburban Schooling-@DumiLM

  • Despite the Best Intentions: How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools-@AmandaLewisPhD & @johndiamondphd