Racism in America: A Reader

Publicly Available Published by Harvard University Press 2020

Racism in America

A Reader

Edited by: Harvard University Press

https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674251656

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About this book

Racism in America has been the subject of serious scholarship for decades. At Harvard University Press, we’ve had the honor of publishing some of the most influential books on the subject. The excerpts in this volume—culled from works of history, law, sociology, medicine, economics, critical theory, philosophy, art, and literature—are an invitation to understand anti-Black racism through the eyes of our most incisive commentators. Readers will find such classic selections as Toni Morrison’s description of the Africanist presence in the White American literary imagination, Walter Johnson’s depiction of the nation’s largest slave market, and Stuart Hall’s theorization of the relationship between race and nationhood. More recent voices include Khalil Gibran Muhammad on the pernicious myth of Black criminality, Elizabeth Hinton on the link between mass incarceration and 1960s social welfare programs, Anthony Abraham Jack on how elite institutions continue to fail first-generation college students, Mehrsa Baradaran on the racial wealth gap, Nicole Fleetwood on carceral art, and Joshua Bennett on the anti-Black bias implicit in how we talk about animals and the environment. Because the experiences of non-White people are integral to the history of racism and often bound up in the story of Black Americans, we have included writers who focus on the struggles of Native Americans, Latinos, and Asians as well. Racism in America is for all curious readers, teachers, and students who wish to discover for themselves the complex and rewarding intellectual work that has sustained our national conversation on race and will continue to guide us in future years.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	i
Contents Open Access Download PDF	v
List of Contributors Open Access Download PDF	ix
A Note on Language Open Access Download PDF	xv
Foreword Annette Gordon-Reed Open Access Download PDF	xvii
Excerpts
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992) Toni Morrison Open Access Download PDF	1
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (2000) Walter Johnson Open Access Download PDF	10
Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West (2006) Ned Blackhawk Open Access Download PDF	22
Southern Horrors: W omen and the Politics of Rape and Lynching (2009) Crystal N. Feimster Open Access Download PDF	31
Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I (2009) Adriane Lentz-Smith Open Access Download PDF	43
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America (2010) Khalil Gibran Muhammad Open Access Download PDF	56
Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care (2011) Augustus A. White Open Access Download PDF	70
Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America (2013) Vivek Bald Open Access Download PDF	78
Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity (2014) Kwame Anthony Appiah Open Access Download PDF	89
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in Amer i ca (2016) Elizabeth Hinton Open Access Download PDF	98
Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform (2016) Tommie Shelby Open Access Download PDF	107
Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century (2017) Tera W. Hunter Open Access Download PDF	117
The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation (2017) Stuart Hall Open Access Download PDF	130
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap (2017) Mehrsa Baradaran Open Access Download PDF	142
The Chinese Must Go: Vio lence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America (2018) Beth Lew-Williams Open Access Download PDF	153
The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti- Mexican Vio lence in Texas (2018) Monica Muñoz Martinez Open Access Download PDF	163
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students (2019) Anthony Abraham Jack Open Access Download PDF	170
Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White (2019) William Sturkey Open Access Download PDF	179
Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (2020) Nicole R. Feetwood Open Access Download PDF	194
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man (2020) Joshua Bennett Open Access Download PDF	209
Notes Open Access Download PDF	221
Credits Open Access Download PDF	275

Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Pages
- Main content: 208

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Published: February 8, 2021
ISBN: 9780674251656