Racism in America: A Reader

Abstract

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- A Note on Language -- Foreword -- Excerpts -- Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992) -- Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (2000) -- Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West (2006) -- Southern Horrors: W omen and the Politics of Rape and Lynching (2009) -- Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I (2009) -- The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America (2010) -- Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care (2011) -- Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America (2013) -- Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity (2014) -- From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in Amer i ca (2016) -- Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform (2016) -- Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century (2017) -- The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation (2017) -- The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap (2017) -- The Chinese Must Go: Vio lence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America (2018) -- The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti- Mexican Vio lence in Texas (2018) -- The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students (2019) -- Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White (2019) -- Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (2020) -- Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man (2020) -- Notes -- Credits