Books like Creating an Old South by Edward E. Baptist

Between the World and Me is a memoir‑essay in letter form, where Ta‑Nehisi Coates addresses his teenage son about the history, violence, and ongoing reality of being Black in America.

A compelling overview of American history through the eyes and experiences of its women, workers, African Americans, Native Americans, immigrants, and the working poor.

Explores the evolution of racist and antiracist ideas in America, tracing their European origins to contemporary society.

Edward E. Baptist shows how slavery’s expansion from 1777 to 1847 powered America’s shift to industrial capitalism, turning the South into a cotton empire and reshaping the nation’s economy.

Examines how white Southerners, faced with newly enfranchised African Americans after the Civil War, reinforced dominance through violence, segregation, and the construction of 'whiteness' that shaped 20th‑century American social hierarchies.

"Los Angeles pulsed with economic vitality and demographic growth in the decades following World War II. This detailed cultural history of L.A. from 1940 to 1970 traces the rise of a new suburban consciousness adopted by a generation of migrants who abandoned older American cities for Southern California's booming urban region. Eric Avila explores expressions of this new "white identity" in popular culture with discussions of Hollywood and film noir, Dodger Stadium, Disneyland, and L.A.'s renowned freeways. These institutions not only mirrored this new culture of suburban whiteness and helped to shape it, but also, as Avila argues, reveal the profound relationship between the increasingly fragmented urban landscape of Los Angeles and the rise of a new political outlook that rejected the tenets of New Deal liberalism and anticipated the emergence of the New Right."--BOOK JACKET.

Honky chronicles the coming‑of‑age of a white boy raised in New York’s Lower East Side, where African American and Latino neighborhoods shape his childhood, revealing how race and class intersect in urban life.

Discusses the laws and practices that supported discrimination against African Americans from Reconstruction to the Supreme Court decision that found segregation to be illegal.

A concise anthology of nine essays that trace the origins and evolution of the modern civil rights movement, its impact on race relations, affirmative action, and multiculturalism in the United States.