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The following materials relate to contemporary forms of racial prejudice and discrimination. To learn more about an item or to purchase a book, please click on its title. Through a special partnership agreement, up to 15% of all book purchases made through Amazon.com (by clicking a link below and ordering the book online) will go toward supporting this web site.
General Books on Racism
- Davis, F. J. (2001). Who is Black? One Nation's Definition. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.
- Eberhardt, J. L., & Fiske, S. T. (Eds.). (1998). Confronting Racism: The Problem and the Response. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
- Feagin, J. R., & McKinney, K. D. (2002). The Many Costs of Racism. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
- Hawley, W. D., & Jackson, A. W. (Eds.). (1995). Toward a Common Destiny: Improving Race and Ethnic Relations in America. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer.
- Jones, J. M. (1997). Prejudice and Racism (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
- Sears, D. O., Sidanius, J., & Bobo, L. (Eds.). (2000). Racialized Politics: The Debate About Racism in America. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
- Waller, J. (1998). Face to Face: The Changing State of Racism Across America. New York: Insight Books.
Racial Attitudes and Stereotypes
- Entman, R. M., & Rojecki, A. (2000). The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
- Golden, M., & Shreve, S. R. (Eds.). (1996). Skin Deep: Black Women and White Women Write About Race. New York: Anchor Books.
- Lee, S. J. (1996). Unraveling the "Model Minority" Stereotype: Listening to Asian American Youth. New York: Teachers College Press.
- Lee, T. (2002). Mobilizing Public Opinion: Black Insurgency and Racial Attitudes in the Civil Rights Era. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
- Schuman, H., Steeh, C., Bobo, L., & Krysan, M. (1998). Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations (rev. ed.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- Smith, R. C., & Seltzer, R. (2000). Contemporary Controversies and the American Racial Divide. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
- Sniderman, P. M., & Carmines, E. G. (Ed.). (1997). Reaching Beyond Race. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- Sniderman, P. M., & Piazza, T. (1993). The Scar of Race. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.
Race and Criminal Justice
- Cole, D. (1999). No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System. New York: New Press.
- Harris, D. A. (2002). Profiles in Injustice: Why Police Profiling Cannot Work. New York: New Press.
- Kennedy, R. (1998). Race, Crime, and the Law. New York: Vintage Books
- Markowitz, M. W., & Jones-Brown, D. D. (Eds.). (2000). The System in Black and White: Exploring the Connections Between Race, Crime, and Justice. Westport, CT: Praeger.
- Mauer, M. (1999). Race to Incarcerate. New York: The New Press.
- Miller, J. G. (1996). Search and Destroy: African-American Males in the Criminal Justice System. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Milovanovic, D., & Russell, K. K. (Eds.). (2001). Petit Apartheid in the U.S. Criminal Justice System: The Dark Figure of Racism. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.
- Tonry, M. H. (1995). Malign Neglect: Race, Crime, and Punishment in America. New York: Oxford University Press.
Immigration
- Alba, R. D., Massey, D. S., & Rumbaut, R. G. (1999). The Immigration Experience for Families and Children. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association.
- Mills, N. (Ed.). (1994). Arguing Immigration: The Debate Over the Changing Face of America. New York: Simon & Schuster.
- Nevins, J. (2002). Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the "Illegal Alien" and the Remaking of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary. New York: Routledge.
- Perea, J. F. (Ed.). (1997). Immigrants Out!: The New Nativism and the Anti-Immigrant Impulse in the United States. New York: New York University Press.
- Reimers, D. M. (1998). Unwelcome Strangers. New York: Columbia University Press.
- Rumbaut, R. G., & Portes, A. (Eds.). (2001). Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
- Waldinger, R. (Ed.). (2001). Strangers at the Gates: New Immigrants in Urban America. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Segregation
- Bullard, R. D., Grigsby, J. E., III, & Lee, C. (Eds.). (1994). Residential Apartheid: The American Legacy. Los Angeles, CA: CAAS Publications.
- Coulibaly, M., Green, R. D., & James, D. M. (1998). Segregation in Federally Subsidized Low-Income Housing in the United States. Westport, CT: Praeger.
- Fluckiger, Y., & Silber, J. G. (1999). The Measurement of Segregation in the Labor Force. New York: Physica-Verlag.
- Hacker, A. (1992). Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal. New York: Maxwell Macmillan International.
- Massey, D. S., & Denton, N. (1994). American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- Orfield, G., Eaton, S. E., & Jones, E. R. (1997). Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown V. Board of Education. New York: The New Press.
- Smith, D. B. (1999). Health Care Divided: Race and Healing a Nation. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
Affirmative Action
- Bowen, W. G., & Bok, D. (1998). The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
- Crosby, F., & VanDeVeer, C. (Eds.). (2000). Sex, Race, and Merit: Debating Affirmative Action in Education and Employment. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
- Ezorsky, G. (1991). Racism and Justice: The Case for Affirmative Action. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
- Katznelson, I. (2005). When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America. New York: W. W. Norton.
- Kellough, J. E. (2006). Understanding Affirmative Action: Politics, Discrimination, and the Search for Justice. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
- Mills, N. (Ed.). (1994). Debating Affirmative Action: Race, Gender, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Inclusion. New York: Dell Publishing.
- Orfield, G. (Ed.). (2001). Diversity Challenged: Evidence on the Impact of Affirmative Action. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Publishing Group.
- Reskin, B. F. (1998). Realities of Affirmative Action in Employment. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association.
- Wise, T. J. (2005). Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White. New York: Routledge.
Anti-Racism and Multiculturalism
- Aptheker, H. (1992). Anti-Racism in U.S. History: The First Two Hundred Years. New York: Greenwood Press.
- Bowser, B. P. (1995). Racism and Anti-Racism in World Perspective. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
- Derman-Sparks, L., & Phillips, C. B. (1997). Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism: A Developmental Approach. New York: Teachers College Press.
- Kivel, P. (2002). Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice (rev. and updated). Gabriola Island, B.C., Canada: New Society Publishers.
- Martínez, E. (1998). De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century. Cambridge, MA: South End Press.
- Reddy, M. T. (Ed.). (1996). Everyday Acts Against Racism: Raising Children in a Multiracial World. Seattle, WA: Seal Press.
Race, Poverty, and Welfare
- Boger, J. C., & Wegner, J. W. (Eds.). (1996). Race, Poverty, and American Cities. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
- Gilens, M. (1999). Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
- Hartman, C. (Ed.). (1997). Double Exposure: Poverty and Race in America. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.
- hooks, b. (2000). Where We Stand: Class Matters. New York: Routledge.
- Neubeck, K. J., & Cazenave, N. A. (2001). Welfare Racism: Playing the Race Card Against America's Poor. New York: Routledge.
- Oliver, M. L., & Shapiro, T. M. (1995). Black Wealth, White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality. New York: Routledge.
- Roberts, D. E. (2002). Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare. New York: Basic Books.
U.S. Slavery Reparations
Modern-Day Slavery
- Bales, K. (2004). Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy (2nd ed.). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
- Bales, K. (2005). Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
- Batstone, D. (2007). Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade--and How We Can Fight It. San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco.
- Hunter, Z. (2007). Be the Change: Your Guide to Freeing Slaves and Changing the World. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.
- Kyle, D., & Koslowski, R. (Eds.). (2001). Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Other Contemporary Issues
- Ancheta, A. N. (1998). Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
- Asim, J. (2007). The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.
- Kivel, P. (1995). Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice. Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publishers.
- Smedley, B. D., Stith, A. Y., &. Nelson, A.R. (Eds.). (2002). Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
- Tatum, B. D. (1999). Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race. New York: Basic Books.
- Van Ausdale, D., & Feagin, J. R. (2001). The First R: How Children Learn Race and Racism. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
- Wise, T. J. (2005). White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son. Brooklyn, NY: Soft Skull Press.
African and African-American Issues
Asian and Asian-American Issues
Hispanic/Latino Issues
Ethnicity and Race
Other Topics
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Special Reports on Segregation
- Ihlanfeldt, K. R., & Scafidi, B. P. (2002, April 1). An Empirical Analysis of the Cause of Neighborhood Racial Segregation (Seminar and Conference Papers: Working Paper S00-003). Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy, University of California.
- Rusk, D. (2001, October). The "Segregation Tax": The Cost of Racial Segregation to Black Homeowners. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.
- Yun, J., & Reardon, S. F. (2002, June). Private School Racial Enrollments and Segregation. Cambridge, MA: Civil Rights Project, Harvard University.
Special Reports on Racial Profiling
Other Special Reports
- AMA Minority Affairs Consortium. (2001, December 10). Report on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. Chicago, IL: American Medical Association.
- American Sociological Association. (2003). The Importance of Collecting Data and Doing Social Scientific Research on Race. Washington, DC: Author.
- Bullard, R. D., Mohai, P., Saha, R., & Wright, B. (2007, March). Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty, 1987-2007.Cleveland, OH: United Church of Christ Justice & Witness Ministries.
- Council of Economic Advisors. (1999, October 24). Changing America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being by Race and Hispanic Origin. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office.
- Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. (2001, August). Gender Dimensions of Racial Discrimination. Geneva, Switzerland: United Nations.
- Pew Research Center. (2007, November 13). Blacks See Growing Values Gap Between Poor and Middle Class: Optimism About Black Progress Declines. Washington, DC: Author.
- Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. (2004, November 21). Civil Rights Enforcement by Bush Administration Lags. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University.
Bibliographies, Databases, and Compendiums
- American Anthropological Association. (1999). American Anthropological Association statement on "race." American Anthropologist, 100, 712-713.
- Bond, J. (2006, November 2). In Katrina's Wake: Racial Implications of the New Orleans Disaster. Symposium on Race and Society, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
- Cole, D. (1994, October 17). Five myths about immigration. The Nation, 410, 412.
- Muharrar, M. (1998, September/October). Media blackface: "Racial profiling" in news reporting. Extra! (magazine of Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting), pp. 6-8.
- Noel, P. (2000, March 21). Portraits in racial profiling: When clothes make the suspect. Village Voice, p. 46.
- Plous, S. (2003). Ten myths about affirmative action. In S. Plous (Ed.), Understanding Prejudice and Discrimination (pp. 206-212). New York: McGraw-Hill.
- Schulman, K. A., Berlin, J. A., Harless, W., Kerner, J. F., Sistrunk, S., Gersh, B.J., et al. (1999). The effect of race and sex on physicians' recommendations for cardiac catheterization. New England Journal of Medicine, 340, 618-626.
- Steele, C. M. (1992, April). Race and the schooling of black Americans. The Atlantic Monthly, pp. 68-78.
- Telles, E. E., & Murguia, E. (1990). Phenotypic discrimination and income differences among Mexican Americans. Social Science Quarterly, 71, 682-696.
- U.S. Department of State. (1999, June). Changing America: The United States population in transition. Electronic Journal of the U.S. Information Agency, 4(2).
- Yee, A. H., Fairchild, H. H., Weizmann, F., & Wyatt, A. E. (1993). Addressing psychology's problems with race. American Psychologist, 48, 1132-1140 [see also American Psychologist, 50, 40-46].
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