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HIST 122 - Laura Puaca: Books - U.S. & Race Relations

Fall 2023

Books of Interest - U.S. Race Relations

A selection of books/e-books available in Trible Library.

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Acting White?: Rethinking Race in "Post-Racial" America by Devon W. Carbado; Mitu Gulati
Call Number: KF384 .C37 2013
ISBN: 0195382587
"The authors argue that, in spite of decades of racial progress and the pervasiveness of multicultural rhetoric, racial judgments are often based not just on skin color, but on how a person conforms to behavior stereotypically associated with a certain race."
The Battle for the Souls of Black Folk by Thomas Aiello
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Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 1440843589
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips
Call Number: F292.F67 P47 2016
ISBN: 0393293017
"A gripping tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia and ... testament to the deep roots of racial violence in America ... Patrick Phillips breaks the century-long silence of his hometown and uncovers a history of racial terrorism that continues to shape America in the twenty-first century"-- Provided by publisher.
Censoring Racial Ridicule by M. Alison Kibler
Call Number: NX180.R3 K53 2015
ISBN: 1469618362
: Irish, Jewish, and African American Struggles over Race and Representation, 1890-1930
Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence by Chad Williams (Editor); Kidada E. Williams (Editor); Keisha N. Blain (Editor)
Call Number: E184.A1 .C4445 2016
ISBN: 0820349569
Color Matters: Skin Tone Bias and the Myth of a Post-Racial America by Kimberly Jade Norwood (Editor)
Call Number: E185.625 .C646 2014
ISBN: 0415517745
""In the United States, as in many parts of the world, people are discriminated against based on the color of their skin. This type of skin tone bias, or colorism, is both related to and distinct from discrimination on the basis of race, with which it is often conflated."
The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America by Ronald H. Bayor
Call Number: E184.A1 C57 2004
ISBN: 0231119941
Each of the eight chronological chapters contains a survey essay, an annotated bibliography, and 20 to 30 related public and private primary source documents, including manifestos, speeches, court cases, letters, memoirs, and much more.
The Columbian Covenant: Race and the Writing of American History by James Carson
Call Number: E184.A1 C3365 2015
ISBN: 1137438622
"When scholars use present-day racial language to articulate past histories of race and society, they collapse different historical significations of skin color into a transhistorical and essential notion of race that implicates their work in the histories that they endeavor to study."
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeang-Yamahtta Taylor
Call Number: E185.86 .T373 2016
ISBN: 1608465624
Hate Crimes: A Reference Handbook by Donald Altschiller
Call Number: HV6773.52 .A47 2015
ISBN: 1610699467
Indian Voices: Listening to Native Americans by Alison Owings
Call Number: E98.E85 O85 2011
ISBN: 0813549655
"This work is a contemporary oral history documenting what Native Americans from 16 different tribal nations say about themselves and the world around them. "
IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas by Gabrielle Tayac (Editor)
Call Number: E184.A1 I463 2009
ISBN: 1588342719
"Examines the intersection of Native-American and African-American history, discussing how the two groups have influenced one another, what conflicts they have faced, and how they came together despite slavery, dispossession, racism, and other obstacles."
Latinos in the United States by Rogelio Sáenz; Maria Cristina Morales
Call Number: E184.S75 S228 2015
ISBN: 0745642713
Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson
Call Number: E185.615 .D947 2020
ISBN: 9781250276759
The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee
Call Number: E184.A75 L43 2015
ISBN: 1476739404
"... tells the little-known history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, from the arrival of the first Asians in the Americas to the present-day. "
Minority Voting in the United States by Kyle L. Kreider (Editor); Thomas J. Baldino (Editor)
Call Number: JK1967 .M57 2016
ISBN: 1440830231
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History by Jeanne Theoharis (Contribution by)
Call Number: E185.61 .T44 2018
ISBN: 9780807075876
Race and Social Problems by Ralph Bangs (Editor); Larry E. Davis (Editor)
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Call Number: Online - Springer
ISBN: 9781493908639
"... casts a wide net across the most pressing social issues, clarifying both the immediate and larger tasks ahead for a range of professionals in such diverse fields as social work, anthropology, communications, criminology, economics, history, law, political science, psychology, public health, and sociology."
Race in America: How a Pseudoscientific Concept Shaped Human Interaction by Patricia Reid-Merritt (Editor)
Call Number: E184.A1 R293 2017
ISBN: 1440849927
Race Relations by Karen Miller
Call Number: HT1521 .R337 2011
ISBN: 0737749865
Opposing viewpoints series
Racial Profiling by David Nelson
Call Number: HV7936.R3 R323 2009
ISBN: 0737742232
Racism in American Popular Media by Brian D. Behnken; Gregory D. Smithers
Call Number: P94.5.M552 U625 2015
ISBN: 1440829764
: From Aunt Jemima to the Frito Bandito
Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal by Randall Kennedy
Call Number: E185.615 .K377 2008
ISBN: 0375425438
"Kennedy grapples with a stigmatized phrase: "selling out," or racial betrayal, a subject of much anxiety and acrimony in Black America. He atomizes the changing meanings of the term and shows how its usage bedevils blacks and whites."

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