Sources

What follows are sources that inform Allan’s presentations on race.

The myth of biological race

Daniel J. Fairbanks, Everyone Is African: How Science Explodes the Myth of Race. Prometheus Books, 2015.

Race: the Power of an Illusion (video). California Newsreel, 2003. Available through PBS.

Jacqueline Jones, A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama’s America. Basic Books, 2015.

The origins and history of whiteness and race

Theodore W. Allen, The Invention of the White Race, vols. 1 & 2, 2nd ed. Verso, 2012.

Audrey Smedley and Brian Smedley, Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview, 4th ed. Westview Press, 2011.

In Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic (eds.), Critical White Studies. Temple University Press, 1997: Charles Gallagher, “White Racial Formation: Into the Twenty-First Century”; Christopher Wills, “The Skin We’re In”; Reginald Horsman, “Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism”; and Kathleen Neal Cleaver, “The Antidemocratic Power of Whiteness.”

Ruth Frankenberg, The Social Construction of Whiteness: White Women, Race Matters. University of Minnesota Press, 1993.

David R. Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class, new ed. Verso, 2007.

Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West. Henry Holt, 1991; and Jack D. Forbes, Columbus and Other Cannibals, rev. ed. Seven Stories Press, 1992.

Ronald Takaki, Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th-Century America, rev. ed. Oxford, 2000; and Strangers from a Different Shore, rev. ed. Back Bay Books, 1998.

Katznelson, Ira. When Affirmative Action Was White: The Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth Century America. W. W. Norton, 2006.

Slavery

Basil Davidson, The African Slave Trade, rev. and exp. edition. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1980.

Reséndez, Andrés. The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016

Farrow, Anne, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank. Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery. Ballantine, 2006.

Edward E. Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. Basic Books, 2014.

Warren, Wendy, New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America. Liveright, 2016.

What Racism Looks Like Today

Doane, Ashley W., and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (eds.) White Out: The Continuing Significance of Racism. Routledge, 2003.

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States, 4th ed. Rowman and Littlefield, 2013; and White Supremacy and Racism in the Post–Civil Rights Era. Lynne Rienner, 2001

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me. New York: Spiegel and Grau, 2015.

George Horse Capture, Duane Champagne, and Chandler C. Jackson. American Indian Nations: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. AltaMira Press, 2007.

Moon-Kie, Joao Costa Vargas, and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, State of White Supremacy: Racism, Governance, and the United States. Stanford University Press, 2011.

Reich, Michael. “The Political-Economic Effects of Racism,” in Richard C. Edwards, Michael Reich, and Thomas E. Weisskopf (eds.), The Capitalist System, 3rd ed. Prentice Hall, 1986.

Rosalind S. Chou and Joe R. Feagin, The Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism. Paradigm, 2008.

Segregation

Barrett A. Lee et. al. “Beyond the Census Tract: Patterns and Determinants of Racial Segregation at Multiple Geographical Sites.” American Sociological Review 73 (Oct. 2008).

James H. Carr and Nandinee Kutty (eds.), Segregation: The Rising Costs for America. Routledge, 2008.

Sean F. Reardon and Ann Owens, “60 Years after Brown: Trends and Consequences of School Segregation,” Annual Review of Sociology, 40, 2014.

Gary Orfield, “Schools More Separate: Consequences of a Decade of Resegregation,” The Civil Rights Project, Harvard University, 2001. Online at http:// www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/research/deseg/Schools_More_Separate.pdf

Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton, American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Harvard University Press, 1998.

Jacob Rugh and Douglas S. Massey, “Racial Segregation and the American Foreclosure Crisis.” American Sociological Review, Oct. 2010.

James H. Carr and Nandinee Kutty, Segregation: The Rising Costs for America. Routledge, 2008

Health Disparities

Donald A. Barr, Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Health, 2nd ed. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.

Race and Criminal Justice

Michele Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New Press, 2012

Muhammad, Khalil Gibran. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. Harvard University Press, 2010.

“The Racial Dimension of New York Police’s Use of Force,” National Public Radio, Oct. 1, 2015, online at http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/10/01/445026910/the-racial-dimension-of-new-york-polices-use-of-force-in-1-graphic

Ryan Gabrielson, Ryann Grochowski, and Eric Sagara, “Deadly Force, in Black and White.” ProPublica, Oct. 10, 2014, available online at http://www.propublica.org/article/deadly-force-inblack-and-white.

Economic Impact of Racism

Edward N. Wolff, The Asset Price Meltdown and the Wealth of the Middle Class. National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 18599, Nov. 2012.

Sylvia A. Allegretto, “The State of Working America’s Wealth, 2011.” Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute, 2011.

Beverly Moran, Race and Wealth Disparities: A Multidisciplinary Discourse. Rowman and Littlefield, 2008.

U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Reports, Series P-60, Money Income in the United States, 2012. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2013; and Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2012. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2013.

Bureau of Labor Statistics, “2016 Employment and Earnings Online,” accessed at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ee/2016/cps/annual.htm#empstat.

Bureau of Labor Statistics and U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, “2014 Person Income Statistics” Online at https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/cpstables/032015/perinc/pinc03_000.htm.

Valerie Wilson and William M. Rodgers III, “Black-White Wage Gaps Expand with Rising Wage Inequality.” Washington, D.C.: Economic Policy Institute, 2016.

Bryce Covert, “Getting a College Degree Won’t Protect Black Workers from the Economy’s Racial Barriers,” in ThinkProgress, May 20, 2014. Available online at http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/05/20/3439739/black-college-graduates-unemployment/

George Lipsitz, The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Benefit from
Identity Politics, rev. ed. Temple University Press, 2006

Algernon Austin, “Whiter Jobs, Higher Wages. Occupational Segregation and the Lower Wages of Black Men.” Economic Policy Institute, briefing paper 288, Feb. 25, 2011.

Renea Merle, “Minority Homeowners More Affected by Home Foreclosures than Whites.” The Washington Post, Jun. 18, 2010.

Tara Seigel Bernard, “Blacks Face Bias in Bankruptcy,” The New York Times, Jan. 20, 2012.

Jacob Rugh and Douglas S. Massey, “Racial Segregation and the American Foreclosure Crisis.” American Sociological Review, Oct. 2010.

Race and Sports

Kevin Hylton, “Race” and Sport: Critical Race Theory. Routledge, 2009.

Discrimination

Ian Ayres and Peter Siegelman, “Race and Gender Discrimination in Bargaining for a New Car,” American Economic Review, June. 1995.

Roland G. Fryer, Devah Pager, and Jörg L. Spenkuch, “Racial Disparities in Job Finding and Offered Wages.” Journal of Law and Economics, 56(3), 633–689, 2013.

D. Henriques, “Review of Nissan Car Loans Explains Why Blacks Pay More.” The New York Times, Jul. 4, 2001, p. 1.

“2015 Hollywood Diversity Report.” Bunch Center for African American Studies, University of California at Los Angeles, Feb. 25, 2015. Available online at http://www.bunchecenter.ucla.edu/index.php/2015/02/2015-hollywood-diversity-report.

“Less Than 5% of actors in top films are Hispanic, new study finds.” The Washington Post, Aug. 9, 2014.

Augustus A. White, Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care. Harvard University Press, 2011.

Banaji, Mahzarin R., Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People. Delacorte, 2013.

Barbara Trepagnier, Silent Racism: How Well-Meaning People Perpetuate the Racial Divide, 2nd ed. Paradigm, 2010.

Derald Wing Sue, Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation. Wiley, 2010.

“When Whites Get a Free Pass: Research Shows White Privilege Is Real.” The New York Times, February 24, 2015, p. A23.

Environmental Racism

Robert D. Bullard, “Confronting Environmental Racism in the Twenty-First Century,” Global Dialogue, 4, 1, Winter 2002.

Dorceta Taylor, Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility. New York University Press, 2014.

Carl Zimring, Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States. New York University Press, 2016.