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The following materials relate to historic 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.
The Origins of Race
- Augstein, H. (Ed). (1996). Race: The Origins of an Idea 1760-1850. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Back, L., & Solomos, J. (Eds.). (2000). Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader. New York: Routledge.
- Fredrickson, G. (1987). The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817-1914. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press.
- Fredrickson, G. (2002). Racism: A Short History. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- Gossett, T. F. (1997). Race: The History of an Idea in America (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.
- Jordan, W. D. (1968). White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Classics on Racism and Slavery
- Douglass, F. (2001). Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself (edited by J. W. Blassingame, J. R. McKivigan, & P. P. Hinks). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. [Free e-book version]
- Dubois, W. E. B. (1994). The Souls of Black Folk. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications.
- Stowe, H. B. (1983). Uncle Tom's Cabin New York: Bantam Classics.
- Truth, S. (1998). Narrative of Sojourner Truth (edited by O. Gilbert & N. I. Painter). Mineola, NY: Dover Publications.
- Washington, B. T. (1995). Up from Slavery. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications.
History of U.S. Slavery
- Fogel, W. F. 1989). Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery. New York: Norton.
- Franklin, J. H. (2000). From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans. New York: Knopf.
- Genovese, E.D. (1976). Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. New York: Vintage Books.
- Kolchin, P. (1993). American Slavery: 1619-1877. New York: Hill and Wang.
- Stampp, K. M. (1989). The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South. New York: Vintage Books.
- Tise, L. E. (1987). Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America, 1701-1840. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
U.S. Presidents, Slavery, and Race
- Binder, F. M. (1968). The Color Problem in Early National America as Viewed by John Adams, Jefferson and Jackson. The Hague: Mouton. [out of print]
- Booker, C. B. (2000). African-Americans & the Presidency: A History of Broken Promises. New York: F. Watts.
- Clay, W. L. (1903). Racism in the White House: A Common Practice of Most United States Presidents. Washington, DC: Howard University Press.
- Hirschfeld, F. (1997). George Washington and Slavery: A Documentary Portrayal. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press.
- Mellon, M. T. (1969). Early American Views on Negro Slavery, from the Letters and Papers of the Founders of the Republic. New York: New American Library.
- O'Reilly, K. (1995). Nixon's Piano: Presidents and Racial Politics from Washington to Clinton. New York: Free Press.
- Sinkler, G. (1971). The Racial Attitudes of American Presidents, from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
- Steinfield, M. (1972). Our Racist Presidents: From Washington to Nixon. San Ramon, CA: Consensus Publishers.
- Waldstreicher, D. (2004). Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution. New York: Hill and Wang.
- Wiencek, H. (2003). An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Internment of Japanese Americans
- Daniels, R. (1993). Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II. New York: Hill and Wang.
- Dower, J. W. (1986). War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. New York: Pantheon Books.
- Houston, J. W., & Houston, J. D. (1983). Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment. New York: Bantam Books.
- Ng, W. L. (2002). Japanese American Internment During World War II: A History and Reference Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
- Robinson, G. (2001). By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans. Cambridege, MA: Harvard University Press.
- United States Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. (1992). Personal Justice Denied: Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
- Weglyn, M. N. (1996). Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps (updated ed.). Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press.
Civil Rights Movement
- Brinkley, D. (2000). Rosa Parks. New York: Viking.
- Carson, C. (Ed.). (1991). The Eyes on the Prize: Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle, 1954-1990. New York: Penguin Books.
- Hampton, H. (1990). Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s. New York: Bantam Books.
- Kluger, R. (1977). Simple Justice: The History of Brown V. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality. New York: Vintage Books.
- Malcolm X. (1965/1990). The Autobiography of Malcolm X. New York: Ballantine Books.
- Moody, A. (1968). Coming of Age in Mississippi. New York: Dial Press.
- Parks, R. (1992). Rosa Parks: My Story. New York: Dial Books.
- Williams, J. (1987). Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965. New York: Viking.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Carson, C. (Ed). (1998). The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.. New York: Warner Books.
- King, M. L., Jr. (1964). Why We Can't Wait. New York: Harper & Row.
- Moses, G. (1997). Revolution of Conscience: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Philosophy of Nonviolence. New York: Guilford Press.
- Washington, J. M. (Ed.). (1986). A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.. San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row.
Other Historical Topics on Race
- Acuna, R. (1999). Occupied America: A History of Chicanos (4th ed.). New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.
- Jones, J. H. (1993). Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment (new and expanded). New York: Free Press.
- Kern-Foxworth, M. (1994). Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and Rastus: Blacks in Advertising, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
- Tise, L. E. (1987). Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America, 1701-1840. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
- Williams, G. H. (1995). Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy who Discovered He Was Black. New York: Dutton.
- Winston, A. S. (Ed.). (2003). Defining Difference: Race and Racism in the History of Psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
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- Brown University. (2006, October 18). Slavery and Justice: Report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice. Providence, RI: Author.
- Gould, S. J. (1985). The Hottentot Venus. In The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History (pp. 291-305). New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
- Ludy, B. T., Jr., & Crouse, E. M. (2002). The American Psychological Association's response to Brown v. Board of Education: The case of Kenneth B. Clark. American Psychologist, 57, 38-50.
- Okamura, R. Y. (1982). The American concentration camps: A cover-up through euphemistic terminology. Journal of Ethnic Studies, 10, 95-109.
- Savitt, T. L. (1982). The use of Blacks for medical experimentation and demonstration in the Old South. Journal of Southern History, 48, 331-348.
- African American History Articles (from Black Collegian)
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