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.

• Allen, Theodore, The invention of the white race: Vols 1& 2
• Bay, Mia, The White Image in the Black Mind
• Blee, Kathleen M., Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s
• Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo, White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era
• Brown, David, and Webb, Clive, Race in the American South from Slavery to Civil Rights
• Burlein, Ann, Lift High the Cross: Where White Supremacy and the Christian Right Converge
• Chalmers, David M., Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan
• Daniels, Jesse, White Lies: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in White Supremacist Discourse
• Dailey, Jane, et al. (eds), Jumpin’ Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights
• Dyer, Richard, White
• Ferber, Abby L., White Man Falling: Gender, Race and White Supremacy
• Frankenberg, Ruth, White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness
• Fredrickson, George M., White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History
• Fredrickson, George M., The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817-1914
• Gilmore, Glenda E., Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina 1896-1920
• Hale, Grace Elizabeth, Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
• Harris, Trudier, Exorcising Blackness: Historical and Literary Lynching and Burning Rituals
• Jacobson, Matthew Frye, Whiteness of a Different Color
• Kantrowitz, Stephen, Ben Tillman & the Reconstruction of White Supremacy
• Kovel, Joel, White Racism: A Psychohistory
• Lewis, George, Massive Resistance: The White Response to the Civil Rights Movement
• MacLean, Nancy, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan
• Merritt, Keri Leigh, Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
• Morrison, Toni, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness in the American Literary Imagination
• Painter, Nell, The History of White People
• Ridgeway, James, Blood in the Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skin-heads and the Rise of a New White Culture
• Roediger, David, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
• Roediger, David, Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White
• Trelease, Allen W., White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction
• Waldrep, Christopher, The Many Faces of Judge Lynch: Extralegal Violence and Punishment in America
• Ware, Vron, Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism and History
• Webb, Clive, Rabble Rousers: The American Far Right in the Civil Rights Era
• Williamson, Joel, The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation
• Wray, Matt, Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness
• Yancy, George, Look, A White!: Philosophical Essays on Whiteness