development of “whiteness” for economic, social, scientific, and political ends. A story filled with towering historical figures, The History of White People forcefully reminds us that the concept of one white race is a recent invention. The meaning, importance, and realty of this all-too-human thesis of race buckle under the weight of a long and rich unfolding of events.
W. W. Norton & Company, 2011, 496 pp., paperback $17.95
Stuff White People Like by Christian Lander
A mix of new material and pieces previously published on the humor website “Stuff White People Like,” this book takes a playful but pointed look at race by examining the things white people like—or profess to like—from “The Daily Show” and “the idea of soccer” to “being an expert on ‘your’ culture.”
Random House, 2008, 211 pp., paperback $14.00
The Warmth of Other Suns The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. The author interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. By concentrating on the stories of three individuals, the book provides the narrative interest of a novel.
Random House, 2010, 640 pp., paperback $16.95
The Pigment of Your Imagination Mixed Race in a Global Society by Joy M. Zarembka
Throughout the world arbitrary racial notions are used to define who is ‘”black” and who is “white,” but the lines become blurred with people of mixed racial heritage. Kenyan Quaker Joy Zarembka and her brother Tommy share the same parents and have striking physical similarities, yet were labelled at birth with very different racial designations; Joy was described as “black” and her brother as “white.” After extensive research in Britain, Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Jamaica Zarembka describes vastly divergent interpretations of racial identity leading to new perspectives in our understandings of race.
Madera Press, 2007, 312 pp., paperback $19.95
Slavery by Another Name The Re-enslavement of Black Americans from the
Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude shortly thereafter. By turns moving, sobering, and shocking, this unprec- edented account reveals the stories of those caught up in the
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