RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
Deconstructing Whiteness: A Select Bibliography
The
Social Construction of Whiteness and Women Syllabus
( WOST 397L, UMass Amherst)
Syllabus for Psychology of Racism
Articles
White
Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
Peggy McIntosh
1988
White
Privilege Shapes the U.S.
Robert Jensen
1998
More
Thoughts on Why the System of White Privilege is Wrong
Robert Jensen
1999
Films
"Paris Trout"
1991
A violent film with a terrible rape scene, but an excellent
depiction of what happens to a woman who breaks whiteness codes.
"Speak Up! It's So Dark…"
1992
A Swedish film (with English subtitles) about a psychiatrist who is a concentration
camp survivor who treats a skin head
"The Color of Fear"
1994
"Race, the Floating Signifier"
1996
(features Stuart Hall)
"The Way Home"
1998
"Magnolia"
1999
This film focuses on white masculinity.
"Bamboozled"
2000
"Storytelling"
2001
Books
Aptheker, Herbert
Anti-Racism in U.S. History: The First Two-Hundred Years
1992
Avakian, Arlene
Lion Woman's Legacy: An Armenian American Memoir
1992
Baldwin, James
The Fire Next Time
1963
Bell, Derrick
And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice
1987
Bell, Derrick
Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanance of Racism
1992
Berger, Maurice
White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness
1999
Berry, Mary Francis
Black Resistance/White Law: A History of Constitutional Racism in America
1994
Boston, Thomas (editor)
A Different Vision
1997
Braden, Anne
The Wall Between
1999
Campbell, Bebe Moore
Brothers and Sisters
1994
Davis, Angela
Women, Race and Class
1983
Delgado, Richard (editor)
Critical race Theory: The Cutting Edge
1995
Delgado, Richard, and Stefancic, Jean (eds).
Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror
1997
Du Bois, W.E.B.
Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880
reprint 1999
Du Bois, W.E.B.
The Souls of Black Folk
reprint 1996
Dyer, Richard
White
1997
Eberhardt, Jennifer L. & Fiske, Susan T.
Confronting Racism: The Problem and the Response
1998
Ezekiel, Raphael S.
The Racist Mind
1995
Fanon, Frantz
Black Skin, White Masks
1967
Frankenberg, Ruth
White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness
1993
Franklin, John Hope
The Color Line: Legacy for the Twenty-First Century
1993
Helms, Janet E.
A Race is a Nice Thing to Have: A Guide to Being a White Person or Understanding
the White Persons in Your Life
1994
hooks, bell
Killing Rage: Ending Racism
1996
Ignatiev, Noel
How the Irish Became White
1995
King, Larry
Confessions of A White Racist
1969
Kivel, Paul
Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
1996
Lazarre, Jane
Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons
1996
Loewen, James
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbooks Got
Wrong
1995
Lopez, Ian Haney
White By Law
1996
MacDonald, Michael Patrick
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
1999
Morrison, Toni
The Bluest Eye
1970
Pratt, Minnie Bruce
"Identity: Skin, Blood, Heart"
Rebellions: Essays 1980-1991
1991
Roediger, David
Towards the Abolition of Whiteness: Essays on Race, Politics, and Working
Class History
1994
Said, Edward
Orientalism
1978
Segrest, Mab
Memoirs of a Race Traitor
1994
Spring, Joel
Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality
1997
Stalvey, Lois Mark
The Education of a WASP
1970
Tatum, Beverly Daniel
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and Other
Conversations about Race
1997
Thompson, Becky
A Promise and a Way of Life: White Antiracist Activism
2001
(Interview
and Table of Contents)
Thompson, Becky and Tyagi, Sangeeta
Names We Call Home: Autobiography on Racial Identity
1996
Wells, Ida B.
Southern Horros and Other Stories
West, Cornell
Race Matters
1993
West, Cornell and Gates Jr., Henry Louis
The Future of the Race
1996
Wu, Frank
Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White
2002
Zinn, Howard
A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present
1995
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