RACE & ETHNICITY IN THE NEW URBAN AMERICA: RECOMMENDED READING LIST

Updated: Nov. 10, 2000

** On reserve at Lehman or in Journalism Library
++ Published in the last two-three years

A-E

• Jervis Anderson, "This Was Harlem"
• Edward Ball, "Slaves in the Family" ++
• Paul Barrett, "The Good Black" ++
• Lisa Belkin, "Show Me a Hero" ++
• Derrick Bell, "Faces at the Bottom of the Well"
• Maurice Berger, "White Lies" ++
• Taylor Branch, "Parting the Waters"
• Tony Brown, "Black Lies, White Lies"
• Veronica Chambers, "Mama's Girl"
• Jonathan Coleman, "Long Way to Go" ++
• James Cone, "Martin and Malcolm"
• Ellis Cose, "Color-Blind" ++
• Stanley Crouch, "The All-American Skin Game"
• Harlon Dalton,"Racial Healing"
• Jannette Dates, "Split Image"
• Marilyn Davis, "Mexican Voices, American Dreams"
• Vince Deloria, "Red Earth, White Lies" ++
• Benjamin DeMott, "The Trouble With Friendship" ++
• Greg Donaldson, "The Ville: Cops and Kids in Urban America"
• Dinesh D'Souza, "The End of Racism" ++

F-H

• Ann Fadiman, "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" ++
• Darcy Frey, "The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams"
• Herbert Gans, "The War Against the Poor" ++
• Henry Lewis Gates, "Colored People"
• Charlayne Hunter-Gault, "In My Place"
• Nathan Glazer and Daniel Moynihan, "Beyond the Melting Pot"
• Lawrence Otis Graham, "Our Kind of People" ++
• Lani Guinier, "Lift Every Voice" ++
• Felix Guterriez, "Minorities and Media"
• Shirlee Haizlip, "The Sweeter the Juice"
• David Halberstam, "The Children" ++
• bell hooks, "Killing Rage: Ending Racism"
• Tamar Jacoby, "Some Else’s House" ++

K-M

• Mike Kelly, "Color Lines" ++
• Randall Kennedy, "Race, Crime and the Law"
• Alex Kotlowitz, "There Are No Children Here"
• Elaine Kim and Eui Young Yu, "East to America" (due in 1996)
• Jonathan Kozol, "Amazing Grace"
• Peter Kwong, "The New Chinatown"
• "Forbidden Workers" ++
• Nicholas Lemann, "The Promised Land"
• John Lewis, "Walking With the Wind" ++
• Anthony Lukas, "Common Ground"
• Malcolm X, "Autobiography of Malcolm X"
• Marcus Mabry, "White Bucks and Black-Eyed Peas" ++
• Dale Maharidge, "The Coming White Minority" ++
• Manning Marable, "Beyond Black and White"
• Carolyn Martindale, "The White Press and Black America"
• James McBride, "The Color of Water"
• Nathan McCall, "Makes me wanna holler"
• Robert D. McFadden, E.R. Shipp, Craig Wolff, "Outrage"
• Charles Murray, "The Bell Curve"
• Gunnar Myrdal, "An American Dilemma"

N-S

• Jill Nelson, "Volunteer Slavery"
• "Straight, No Chaser" ++
• Kenneth O'Reilly, "Nixon's Piano" ++
• Clarence Page, "Showing My Color"
• Orlando Patterson, "The Ordeal of Integration" ++
• "Rituals of Blood" ++
• Hugh Pearson, "The Shadow of the Panther"
• Colin Powell, "My American Journey" ++
• Arnold Rampersad, "Jackie Robinson" ++
• David Remnick, "King of the World" ++
• Eugene Robinson, "Coal to Cream" ++
• Sam Roberts, "Who We Are" **
• Richard Rodriguez, "Hunger of Memory"
• Carl Rowan, "The Coming Race War in America" ++
• Kathy Russell, Midge Wilson and Ronald Hall Sacks, "The Color Complex"
• Jim Sleeper, "The Closest of Strangers" **
• " Liberal Racism" ++
• David Shipler, "A Country of Strangers" ++
• Pat Shipman, "The Evolution of Racism"
• Paul Sniderman, "The Scar of Race"
• Marta Sotomayer (editor), "Empowering Hispanic Families"
• Brent Staples, "Parallel Time"
• Shelby Steele, "The Content of Our Character"
• " A Dream Deferred" ++
• Roberto Suro, "Strangers Among Us" ++

T-Z

• Ronald Takaki, "Strangers from a Different Shore" **
• Kathryn Talalay, "Composition in Black and White" ++
• Studs Terkel, "Race"
• Hugh Thomas, "The Slave Trade" ++
• Stephan Thernstrom & Abigail Thernstrom, "America in Black and White" ++
• Sanford Ungar, "Fresh Blood: The New American Immigrants"
• Cornell West, "Race Matters"
• Tom Wicker, "Tragic Failure" ++
• Juan Williams, "Eyes on the Prize"
• Midge Wilson and Kathy Russell, "Divided Sisters" ++
• William Julius Wilson, "The Truly Disadvantaged"
• "The Declining Significance of Race"
• Patricia Williams, "Seeing a Color-Blind Future" ++

** On reserve at Lehman or in Journalism Library

++ Published in the last two-three years