Annette Gordon-Reed - Racism in America A Reader

1. Excerpts
2. TONI MORRISON
3. WALTER JOHNSON
4. NED BLACKHAWK
5. CRYSTAL N.FEIMSTER
6. ADRIANELENTZ-SMITH
7. KHALIL GIBRAN MUHAMMAD
8. AUGUSTUS A. WHITE III, MD
9. VIVEK BALD
10. ME ANTHONY APPIAH
11. ELIZABETH HINTON
12. TOMMIE SHELBY
13. TERA W. HUNTE
14. STUART HALL
15. MEHRSA BARADARAN
16. BETH LEW-WILLIAMS
17. MONICA MUOZ MARTINEZ
18. ANTHONY ABRAHAM JACK
19. LLIAM STURKEY
20. COLE R. FLEETWOOD
21. JOSHUA BENNETT

Foreword

Annette Gordon-Reed is the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. She is Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School and Professor of History at Harvard University.

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

Toni Morrison (19312019) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, a National Book Critics Circle Award, and a Pulitzer Prize. The author of numerous critically acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, she was the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, at Princeton University.

Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market

Walter Johnson is Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom and, most recently, The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States.

Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West

Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone) is Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University. The Native American and Indigenous Studies Association awarded Violence over the Land its Book of the Decade Award as one of the ten most influential books in Native American and Indigenous Studies in the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching

Crystal N. Feimster is Associate Professor of African American Studies, History, and American Studies at Yale University, where she received the prestigious Yale Provost Teaching Prize for 20132014.

Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I

Adriane Lentz-Smith is Associate Professor of History at Duke University and senior fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics, hosting its community conversations series, The Ethics of Now. She served as consultant to the PBS documentary The Jazz Ambassadors and can be seen on American Experiences The Great War.

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America

Khalil Gibran Muhammad is Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. He was formerly Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a division of the New York Public Library and the worlds leading library and archive of global Black history.

Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care

Augustus A. White III, MD, is Professor of Medical Education and Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School and the first African American department chief at Harvards teaching hospitals.

Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America

Vivek Bald is Associate Professor of Comparative Media Studies and Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the director of the documentary films Taxi-vala / Auto-biography and Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music, and is working on a film based on Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America.

Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity

Kwame Anthony Appiah writes the Ethicist column for the New York Times Magazine. A professor of philosophy and law at New York University, he is the best-selling, award-winning author of The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity; Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers; The Ethics of Identity; and The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen.

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America

Elizabeth Hinton is Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Yale University and Professor of Law at Yale Law School. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime received widespread acclaim and was named a New York Times Notable Book and one of Oprah Magazines Books to Better Understand the History of Racism in America.

Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform

Tommie Shelby is Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy at Harvard University. In addition to Dark Ghettos he is the author of We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity and coeditor with Brandon M. Terry of To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century

Tera W. Hunter is Edwards Professor of American History and Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. Bound in Wedlock won the inaugural Stone Book Award from the Museum of African American History in addition to four other book awards. Hunters previous book was To Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Womens Lives and Labors after the Civil War.

The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation

Stuart Hall was an influential Jamaican-born British sociologist and cultural theorist. He was Professor of Sociology at the Open University, the founding editor of New Left Review, and Director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham.

The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

Mehrsa Baradaran is Professor of Law at UC Irvine Law and a celebrated authority on banking law. In addition to the prizewinning The Color of Money,