Books like Whiteness of a Different Color by Matthew Frye Jacobson

Beverly Daniel Tatum invites readers to stop avoiding tough conversations about race and instead engage directly with the realities of racial identity and segregation, offering concrete tools to foster understanding and equity in schools, workplaces, and families.

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.

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

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

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.

An examination of the psychological and social forces that shape European American identities, exploring how childhood experiences and class dynamics influence perceptions of race, self‑esteem, and belonging in the United States.