Books like How racism takes place by George Lipsitz

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.

Glenn C. Loury investigates why Black Americans continue to face poverty, low wages, and inequities in health and education, arguing that stigmatizing social information sustains racial stereotypes and discrimination.

bell hooks’ essays in Black Looks critique traditional narratives, interrogating how blackness, race, and gender are represented in media and culture, urging readers to rethink spectatorship and the politics of representation.

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.

Eddie S. Glaude Jr. challenges the myth of a post‑racial America, arguing that structural inequities and a ‘value gap’ still distort politics and livelihoods for black Americans.

Two scholars, bell hooks and Amalia Mesa‑Bains, examine how mainstream media polarizes African American and Latino communities—and outline a shared oppositional politics rooted in cross‑cultural cooperation.

K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann examine race in politics and morality, arguing that race is a social construct and that fairness—not color‑blindness—should guide policy. They explore university admissions, hiring, representation, and offer principled starting points for national dialogue.

An in‑depth examination of how racism permeates everyday life in the United States, blending contemporary case studies with historical analysis to explain the economic, ideological, and political foundations of American racial discrimination.