W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
C. Vann Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1974)
Nell Irvin Painter, Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas after Reconstruction (1977)
Wilson Jeremiah Moses, The Golden Age of Black Nationalism, 1850-1925 (1978)
Howard N. Rabinowitz, Race Relations in the Urban South, 1865-1890 (1978)
Neil R. McMillen, Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow (1989)
Robin D. G. Kelley, “We Are Not What We Seem: Rethinking Black Working-Class Opposition in the Jim Crow South,” Journal of American History (1993): 75-112
Glenda Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (1996)
Leon F. Litwack, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (1998)
Grace Elizabeth Hale, Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 (1998)
Deborah Gray White, Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994 (1999)
Nell Irvin Painter, Southern History across the Color Line (2002)
Manning Marable, The Great Wells of Democracy: The Meaning of Race in American Life (2002)
Michele Mitchell, Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction (2004)
James W. Loewen, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism (2005)
W. Fitzhugh Brundage, The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory (2005)
James C. Cobb, Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity (2005)
Mark Smith, How Race is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses (2006)
Bruce E. Baker, What Reconstruction Meant: Historical Memory in the American South (2007)
Kate Dossett, Bridging Race Divides: Black Nationalism, Feminism and Integration, 1896-1935 (2008)
Blair L. M. Kelley, Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African-American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson (2010)
Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (2010)
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2011)
Andrew W. Kahrl, The Land Was Ours: African American Beaches from Jim Crow to the Sunbelt South (2012)
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
Nancy MacLean, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: the Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (1994)
Saidiya V. Hartman, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth Century America (1997)
David Grimsted, American Mobbing: Toward Civil War (1998)
Sheila Smith McKoy, When Whites Riot: Writing Race and Violence in American and South African Culture (2001)
Christopher Waldrep, Lynching in America: A History in Documents (2006)
Rebecca Nell Hill, Men, Mobs, and Law: Anti-lynching and Labor Defense in US Radical History (2008)
Crystal Feimster, Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching (2009)
Hannah Rosen, Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Post-Emancipation South (2009)
Amy Louise Wood, Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 (2009)
Danielle McGuire, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance (2010)
Kidada Williams, They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War (2012)
Michael J. Pfeifer, Lynching Beyond Dixie: American Mob Violence Outside the South (2013)
Brenda E. Stevenson, The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots (2013)
Ian Haney-López, White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race (1996)
Thomas Guglielmo, White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945 (2004)
David R. Roediger, Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White (2005)
Shannon Sullivan, Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege (2006)
Note: See the AAIHS’s Bibliography on Black Internationalism and RacismReview’s Bibliography on White Supremacy
Reg Austin, Racism and Apartheid in Southern Africa (1975)
George M. Frederickson, White Supremacy: A Comparative Study (1981)
John Cell, The Highest Stage of White Supremacy: the Origins of Segregation in South Africa and the American South (1982)
Thomas J. Noer, Cold War and Black Liberation: the United States and White Rule in Africa, 1948-1968 (1985)
David Theo Goldberg, Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning (1993)
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995)
Brenda Gayle Plummer, Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960 (1996)
Penny Von Eschen, Race Against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957 (1997)
Jessie Daniels, White Lies: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in White Supremacist Discourse (1997)
Stephen David Kantrowitz, Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (2000)
Howard Winant, The World is a Ghetto: Race and Democracy since World War II (2001)
Thomas Borstelmann, The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena (2001)
James Meriwether, Proudly We Can Be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961 (2002)
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America (2003)
Joe R. Feagin, Systemic Racism: A Theory of Oppression (2006)
Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds, Drawing the Global Color Line: White Men’s Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality (2008)
Carl Nightingale, Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities (2012)
