Books like Making whiteness by Grace Elizabeth Hale

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.

Ibram X. Kendi’s *How to Be an Antiracist* explains racism as a powerful system that creates false hierarchies and offers a guide—drawing on ethics, history, law, and science—to help readers confront and dismantle racial injustice in society and themselves.

Michelle Alexander argues that mass incarceration has become a contemporary system of racial control, striking disproportionately at African‑American men and other disadvantaged groups while perpetuating a new form of Jim Crow.

Many mid 20th century American government programs created to help citizens survive and improve ended up being heavily biased against African-Americans. Katznelson documents this white affirmative action, and argues that its existence should be an important part of the argument in support of late 20th century affirmative action programs.

C. Vann Woodward’s classic 1955 study argues that Jim Crow segregation emerged only in the 1890s, showing the South’s racial relations were more mixed during slavery and Reconstruction.

A historian examines the racial classifications of white people in the United States during the 18th century, revealing the tenuous nature of racial identity.

"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.

Jerrold M. Packard’s *American Nightmare* traces the rise, life, and defeat of Jim Crow segregation, revealing how a nation built on equality enforced a decades‑long system of racial injustice.

Explores how racial etiquette in the early twentieth‑century South was taught to children through family, community, and the threat of violence, revealing the roots of civil‑rights consciousness and the persistence of segregation.

A revolutionary text by Frantz Fanon, providing insight into the fight for freedom and national culture in decolonization era.