Books like Racial formation in the United States by Michael Omi

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.

First published in 1992 at the height of the furor over the Rodney King incident, Studs Terkel's Race was an immediate bestseller. In a rare and revealing look at how people in America truly feel about race, Terkel brings out the full complexity of the thoughts and emotions of both blacks and whites, uncovering a fascinating narrative of changing opinions. Preachers and street punks, college students and Klansmen, interracial couples, the nephew of the founder of apartheid, and Emmett Till's mother are among those whose voices appear in Race. In all, nearly one hundred Americans talk openly about attitudes that few are willing to admit in public: Feelings about affirmative action, gentrification, secret prejudices, and dashed hopes.

"Barack Obama's historic presidency has re-inserted mixed race into the national conversation. While the troubled and pejorative history of racial amalgamation throughout U.S. history is a familiar story, The United States of the United Races reconsiders an understudied optimist tradition, one which has praised mixture as a means to create a new people, bring equality to all, and fulfill an American destiny. In this genealogy, Greg Carter re-envisions racial mixture as a vehicle for pride and a way for citizens to examine mixed America as a better America. Tracing the centuries-long conversation that began with Hector St. John de Crevecoeur's Letters of an American Farmer in the 1780s through to the Mulitracial Movement of the 1990s and the debates surrounding racial categories on the U.S. Census in the twenty-first century, Greg Carter explores a broad range of documents and moments, unearthing a new narrative that locates hope in racial mixture. Carter traces the reception of the concept as it has evolved over the years, from and decade to decade and century to century, wherein even minor changes in individual attitudes have paved the way for major changes in public response. The United States of the United Races sweeps away an ugly element of U.S. history, replacing it with a new understanding of race in America."--Publisher's website.

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.

Andrew Hacker’s book examines the social and economic forces that separate African Americans and whites in the United States.

Examines how entrenched discrimination patterns shape life for both African American and white residents in a specific Southern town.

bell hooks examines the marginal cultures of women, racial minorities, and the disenfranchised, critiquing racism, sexism, and mainstream media to inspire political engagement and transformative change.

Examining the turn‑of‑the‑century shift in American masculinity, this book traces how evolving ideals linked primitive virility with white superiority.

Mary L. Dudziak’s analysis of how Cold War policies influenced civil rights in the United States.