Books like Working-class white by Monica McDermott

Joan C. Williams argues that the white working class in the United States, often mischaracterized as simply poor, is a distinct political force rooted in middle‑class values and community loyalty, shaping rising populist and nationalist movements.

Robert Jensen challenges white Americans to confront their own role in racial injustice, blending personal insight with research to expose how white privilege sustains inequality.

Explores how the United States has defined and redefined race, showing how immigrant groups have been reshaped into the nation’s racial categories over time.

The Wages of Whiteness traces how white working‑class racism formed in the United States through economic, psychological, and ideological forces, revealing the role of racial stereotypes in shaping worker identity.

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.

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.