Books like Riot and Remembrance by James S. Hirsch

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.

Carol Anderson’s nonfiction study uncovers the history of white backlash—‘white rage’—that follows gains in racial equality, tracing its roots from the Reconstruction era to today.

Michael Eric Dyson challenges the idea that black grievances have been ignored, arguing that honest confrontation of race, identity, and civil‑rights history is essential for genuine progress in the United States.

A narrative history of one of America's deadliest race riot and lynching episodes, detailing how African Americans were violently targeted in anti-black uprisings that claimed hundreds of lives and helped lay the groundwork for the civil rights movement.

The brutal and systematic "ethnic cleansing" of Chinese-Americans in California and the Pacific Northwest in the second half of the 19th century is a shocking and virtually unexplored chapter of American history. Driven Out unearths this forgotten episode in our nation's past. Drawing on years of groundbreaking research, Jean Pfaelzer reveals how, beginning in 1849, lawless citizens and duplicitous politicians purged dozens of communities of thousands of Chinese residents -- and how the victims bravely fought back. In town after town, as races and classes were pitted against one another in the raw and anarchic West, Chinese miners and merchants, lumberjacks and field workers, prostitutes and merchants' wives, were gathered up at gunpoint and marched out of their homes, sometimes thrown into railroad cars along the very tracks they had built. Here, in vivid detail, are unforgettable incidents such as the torching of the Chinatown in Antioch, California, after Chinese prostitutes were accused of giving seven white boys syphilis, and a series of lynchings in Los Angeles bizarrely provoked by a Chinese wedding. From the Port of Seattle to the mining towns in California's Siskiyou Mountains to "Nigger Alley" in Los Angeles, the first Chinese-Americans were hanged, purged, and banished. Chinatowns across the West were burned to the ground. - Jacket flap.

A 1863 New York story of a fifteen‑year‑old mixed‑race girl confronting the violence of Irish‑American draft riots against black residents and the wealthy elite.

An examination of white‑racial violence in the United States, its role in maintaining control over Black Americans, and the historical resistance of African Americans to intimidation and oppression.

An in‑depth history of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot, the destruction of the thriving Greenwood community, and the search for truth and restitution.