Books like White Man Falling by Abby L. Ferber

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

A Little Life follows four college friends in New York as they confront trauma, love and the enduring scars of their pasts, weaving themes of friendship, family, and identity into a profound coming‑of‑age story.

In the orderly suburb of Shaker Heights, a new family’s arrival and a custody dispute ignite tension, revealing secrets, art, and the complex pull of motherhood in a tightly knit community.

Twin African American sisters flee their hometown after their father's murder—one chooses to pass as white while the other stays true to her identity, exploring race, family, and the complexities of self through generations.

Celestial and Roy, a young couple embodying the American Dream, are torn apart when Roy is wrongfully convicted and sent to prison. Five years later, his conviction is overturned, forcing Celestial to confront the fractured life she must rebuild.

After a twenty‑year friendship ends, Arthur Greer is invited to his ex‑boyfriend’s wedding and embarks on a globe‑spanning trip that reconnects him with a past love, tests his courage and forces a fresh start at fifty.

After being adopted by a quirky Dublin couple who treat him only as a house‑guest, Cyril embarks on a life‑spanning quest to discover his origins, his place in Ireland, and the meaning of true belonging.

Iron Cages examines 19th‑century white American attitudes toward Asians, Blacks, Mexicans, and Native Americans, analyzing the foundations of race, culture, and social conditions in the United States.

Explores how the United States has defined and redefined race, showing how immigrant groups have been reshaped into the nation’s racial categories over time.

In this unflinching look at white supremacy, George Lipsitz argues that racism is a matter of interests as well as attitudes, a problem of property as well as pigment. Above and beyond personal prejudice, whiteness is a structured advantage that produces unfair gains and unearned rewards for whites while imposing impediments to asset accumulation, employment, housing, and health care for minorities. Reaching beyond the black/white binary, Lipsitz shows how whiteness works in respect to Asian Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans.Lipsitz delineates the weaknesses embedded in civil rights laws, the racial dimensions of economic restructuring and deindustrialization, and the effects of environmental racism, job discrimination and school segregation. He also analyzes the centrality of whiteness to U.S. culture, and perhaps most importantly, he identifies the sustained and perceptive critique of white privilege embedded in the radical black tradition. This revised and expanded edition also includes an essay about the impact of Hurricane Katrina on working class Blacks in New Orleans, whose perpetual struggle for dignity and self determination has been obscured by the city's image as a tourist party town.

Blood and Politics charts the rise and evolution of the white supremacist movement over thirty years, using court records, extremist texts, and firsthand accounts.

In 1985 Chicago, gallery director Yale Tishman faces career triumphs and the devastation of the AIDS epidemic, while his friend Nico dies and his partner tests positive. Thirty years later, Fiona travels to Paris to confront her estranged daughter lost to a cult, uncovering the lasting impact of AIDS on their lives.

David R. Roediger traces the creation, evolution, and persistence of race in American history from the 1600s to the present, showing its enduring influence on politics, economics, and society.

Psychologists explore challenges faced by Black men in America, offering strategies for success and acceptance under racism.

xiii, 194 pages ; 21 cm

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