America in Black and White? General Reading
If you are interested in doing any pre-reading for this course, these books are highly recommended. The full reading list for this course can be found on the Library Reading Lists. Below there is also a list of blogs, podcasts and films that may be of interest.
Books
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2012)
Carol Anderson, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth About our Racial Divide (2016)
Ari Berman, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America (2016)
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Racism without Racists: Color-blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States (2010)
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (2015)
Tanner Colby, Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America (2013)
Marc Lamont Hill, Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond (2016)
Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (2017)
Ibram Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (2017)
Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America (2017)
Khalil Gibran Muhammad, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime and the Making of Modern Urban America (2011)
Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People (2010)
Alison Phipps, Me Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism (2020)
Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race (2017)
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (2016)
Heather Ann Thompson, Blood in the Water: The Attica Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy (2016)
Jesmyn Ward, The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race (2017)
Chad Williams, Kidada Williams and Keisha N. Blain (eds), Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism and Racial Violence (2016)
Gary Younge, Another Day in the Death of America (2016)
Websites and Blogs
Black PerspectivesLink opens in a new window
We're HistoryLink opens in a new window
Podcasts
Code Switch (NPR)Link opens in a new window
BackStoryLink opens in a new window
About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge
Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
Films
13th (Ava DuVernay, 2016)
I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck, 2016)
OJ: Made in America (Ezra Edelman, 2016)
Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement (Lauren Grant, 2016)
2 Fists Up: We Gon ‘ Be Alright (Spike Lee, 2016)
Broken on All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice in the U.S. (Matthew Pillischer, 2012)