Reading List for Spring 2003
BIBLIOGRAPHY ON WHITE IDENTITY
ORIGINS OF RACE AND WHITE IDENTITY IN THE FOUNDING OF THE UNITED STATES.
Jill Lepore, The Name of War: King Phillips War and the Formation of American Identity.
Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural Amercia, Back Bay Books, Little Brown, 1993.
Scott Malcomson, One Drop of Blood: the American Misadventure of Race, Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2000.
Derek Bell, And We are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice, Basic books, 1979.
Theodore Allen, The Invention of the White Race: Racial Oppression and Social Control, Verso Press, 1994.
Ian Hannaford, Race: The History of an Idea in the West, Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1996.
THE EXPERIENCE OF EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS AND HOW THEY BECAME WHITE
Mathew Frye Jacobsen, Whiteness of a Different Color, Harvard University Press, 1998
David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class,
Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, Routledge Press, 1995
Ian Haney Lopez, White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race, NYU Press, 1996.
BOOKS ON THE CONTEMPORARY EXPERIENCE OF WHITENESS:
Paul Kivel, Uprooting Racism: How White People Can work for Racial Justice, New Society Publishers, 1996
David Roediger, Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to be White, Schocken Press, 1998
Joseph Barndt, Dismantling Racism, Augsburg, 1991
Beverly Tatum Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Basic books, 1997
Janet Helms, A Race is a Nice Thing to Have