LibGuides: Ethnic Studies Resources for Faculty and Students: Race &amp; Resistance Studies

Books, Articles, & Videos

Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Umoja Noble
Call Number: ZA4230 .N63 2018
ISBN: 1479849944
Publication Date: 2018-02-20
In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble argues that the combination of private interests in promoting certain sites, along with the monopoly status of a relatively small number of Internet search engines, leads to a biased set of search algorithms that privilege whiteness and discriminate against people of color, specifically women of color.
Constructing Race and Ethnicity in America by Dvora Yanow
ISBN: 0765608014
Publication Date: 2002-08-31
Davora Yanow argues that "race" and "ethnicity" are socially constructed concepts, not objective, scientifically-grounded variables, and do not accurately represent the real world. She joins the growing critique of the unreflective use of "race" and "ethnicity" in American policymaking through an exploration of how these terms are used in everyday practices. .
The Construction of Whiteness by Stephen Middleton (Editor); David R. Roediger (Editor); Donald M. Shaffer (Editor)
ISBN: 9781496805553
Publication Date: 2016-04-13
This volume collects interdisciplinary essays that examine the crucial intersection between whiteness as a privileged racial category and the various material practices (social, cultural, political, and economic) that undergird white ideological influence in America. In truth, the need to examine whiteness as a problem has rarely been grasped outside academic circles.
Critical Race Theory (Third Edition) by Richard Delgado; Jean Stefancic; Angela Harris (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781479846368
Publication Date: 2017-03-07
Critical Race Theory is essential for understanding developments in this burgeoning field, which has spread to other disciplines and countries. The new edition also covers the ways in which other societies and disciplines adapt its teachings and, for readers wanting to advance a progressive race agenda, includes new questions for discussion, aimed at outlining practical steps to achieve this objective.
Fit to Be Citizens? by Natalia Molina
ISBN: 9780520246492
Publication Date: 2006-03-13
Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Fit to Be Citizens? demonstrates how both science and public health shaped the meaning of race in the early twentieth century. Through a careful examination of the experiences of Mexican, Japanese, and Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, Natalia Molina illustrates the many ways local health officials used complexly constructed concerns about public health to demean, diminish, discipline, and ultimately define racial groups.
Genetics As Social Practice by Barbara Prainsack; Silke Schicktanz; Gabriele Werner-Felmayer
ISBN: 1317129431
Publication Date: 2016-04-22
This volume brings together contributions exploring the mutual relationships between genetics, markets, societies and identities in genetics and genomics. It draws upon the recent transdisciplinary debate on how socio-cultural factors influence understandings of 'genetics2.0' and shows how individual and collective identities are challenged or reinforced by cultural meanings and practices of genetics.
Hope and Healing in Urban Education by Shawn Ginwright
ISBN: 1317631935
Publication Date: 2015-07-30
Drawing on ethnographic case studies from around the country, Hope and Healing in Urban Education examines how social change can be enacted from within to restore a sense of hope to besieged communities and counteract the effects of poverty, violence, and hopelessness.
Impossible Subjects by Mae M. Ngai
Call Number: KF4800.N485 2004
ISBN: 9780691074719
Publication Date: 2003-12-07
This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy--a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century.
Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Third Edition by Bruce Burgett (Editor); Glenn Hendler (Editor)
ISBN: 1479822949
Publication Date: 2020-11-24
The publication brings together essays by interdisciplinary scholars working in literary studies and political economy, cultural anthropology and ethnic studies, African American history and performance studies, gender studies and political theory. Some entries are explicitly argumentative; others are more descriptive. All are clear, challenging, and critically engaged. As a whole, Keywords for American Cultural Studies provides an accessible A-to-Z survey of prevailing academic buzzwords and a flexible tool for carving out new areas of inquiry.
Medical Bondage by Deirdre Cooper Owens
ISBN: 9780820351353
Publication Date: 2017-11-15
Medical Bondage breaks new ground by exploring how and why physicians denied these women their full humanity yet valued them as ?medical super bodies highly suited for medical experimentation.
Even as they were advancing medicine, these doctors were legitimizing, for decades to come, groundless theories related to whiteness and blackness, men and women, and the inferiority of other races or nationalities.
The Next American Revolution by Grace Lee Boggs; Scott Kurashige
ISBN: 0520953398
Publication Date: 2012-05-31
In this powerful, deeply humanistic book, Grace Lee Boggs, a legendary figure in the struggle for justice in America, shrewdly assesses the current crisis-political, economical, and environmental-and shows how to create the radical social change we need to confront new realities.
The Rising Tide of Color by Moon-Ho Jung (Editor)
ISBN: 029580503X
Publication Date: 2014-11-01
From labor and anticolonial activists around World War I and multiracial campaigns by anarchists and communists in the 1930s to the policing of race and sexuality after World War II and transpacific movements against the Vietnam War, The Rising Tide of Color brings to light histories of race, state violence, and radical movements that continue to shape our world in the twenty-first century.
Shades of Difference by Evelyn Nakano Glenn (Editor)
ISBN: 0804770999
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Shades of Difference examines the significance of skin color in different societies around the world and its effects on relations between and within racial groups.
The Silicon Valley of Dreams by David Pellow; Lisa Sun-Hee Park
Call Number: HC107.C22 S376 2002
ISBN: 0814767095
Publication Date: 2002-12-22
Looks at the high technology industries of the Silicon Valley, arguing that it provides an illustration of environmental inequality and racism.
Storytelling for Social Justice by Lee Anne Bell
ISBN: 1351587919
Publication Date: 2019-08-28
Using the arts in general, and storytelling in particular, the book examines ways to teach and learn about race by creating counter-storytelling communities that can promote more critical and thoughtful dialogue about racism and the remedies necessary to dismantle it in our institutions and interactions. Illustrated throughout with examples drawn from contemporary movements for change, high school and college classrooms, community building and professional development programs, the book provides tools for examining racism as well as other issues of social justice.

The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Call Number: E185.61 .R8185 2017
ISBN: 9781631492853
Publication Date: 2017-05-02
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation--that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law incontrovertibly makes clear that it was de jure segregation--the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments--that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day.
Racial Fault Lines by Tomás Almaguer
Call Number: F870.A1 A46 2009
ISBN: 9780520257863
Publication Date: 2008-12-30
This book unravels the ethnic history of California since the late nineteenth-century Anglo-American conquest and the institutionalization of "white supremacy" in the state. Drawing from an array of primary and secondary sources, Tomás Almaguer weaves a detailed, disturbing portrait of ethnic, racial, and class relationships during this tumultuous time.
Hitler's American Model by James Q. Whitman
Call Number: KK4743 .W55 2017
ISBN: 9780691172422
Publication Date: 2017-02-21
In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime. Indelibly linking American race laws to the shaping of Nazi policies in Germany, Hitler's American Model upends understandings of America's influence on racist practices in the wider world.
Faith and Resistance in the Age of Trump by Miguel A. De La Torre (Editor)
Call Number: BR516 .F28 2017
ISBN: 9781626982475
Publication Date: 2017-09-14
Many people of faith have identified the election of Donald Trump as a confessional crisis--a moment that calls into question the deepest meaning of our religious claims and values. This book gathers reflections by a range of scholars and activists from numerous religious and denominational perspectives to address that crisis. Among the themes treated are disability issues, the LGBT community, gender and race, immigration, the environment, peace, and poverty.
Color Matters by Kimberly Jade Norwood (Editor)
Call Number: E185.625 .C646 2014
ISBN: 9780415517744
Publication Date: 2013-12-13
In Color Matters, Kimberly Jade Norwood has collected the most up-to-date research on this insidious form of discrimination, including perspectives from the disciplines of history, law, sociology, and psychology. Anchored with historical chapters that show how the influence and legacy of slavery have shaped the treatment of skin color in American society.
Muslim Cool by Su'ad Abdul Khabeer
Call Number: E185.625 .K524 2016
ISBN: 9781479872152
Publication Date: 2016-12-06
This groundbreaking study of race, religion and popular culture in the 21st century United States focuses on a new concept, "Muslim Cool." Muslim Cool is a way of being an American Muslim--displayed in ideas, dress, social activism in the 'hood, and in complex relationships to state power. Constructed through hip hop and the performance of Blackness, Muslim Cool is a way of engaging with the Black American experience by both Black and non-Black young Muslims that challenges racist norms in the U.S. as well as dominant ethnic and religious structures within American Muslim communities.
The Many Colors of Crime by Ruth D. Peterson (Editor); Lauren J. Krivo (Editor); John Hagan (Editor)
Call Number: HV6789 .M34 2006
ISBN: 0814767192
Publication Date: 2006-08-01
In this authoritative volume, the contributors argue that dimensions of race and ethnicity condition the very laws that make certain behaviors criminal, the perception of crime and those who are criminalized, the determination of who becomes a victim of crime under which circumstances, the responses to laws and crime that make some more likely to be defined as criminal, and the ways that individuals and communities are positioned and empowered to respond to crime.
How to Be Less Stupid about Race by Crystal Marie Fleming
Call Number: E184.A1 F576 2018
ISBN: 9780807050774
Publication Date: 2018-09-18
Combining no-holds-barred social critique, humorous personal anecdotes, and analysis of the latest interdisciplinary scholarship on systemic racism, sociologist Crystal M. Fleming provides a fresh, accessible, and irreverent take on everything that's wrong with our "national conversation about race."
Witnessing Whiteness by Kristopher Norris
Call Number: E184.A1 N57 2020
ISBN: 9780190055813
Publication Date: 2020-08-03
In Witnessing Whiteness, Kristopher Norris explores the challenges that lie at the intersection of race, church, and politics in America and argues for a new ethics of responsibility to confront white supremacy.
Light, Bright, and Damned near White by Stephanie Rose Bird
ISBN: 9780275989545
Publication Date: 2009-03-20
This volume explores the history, challenges, and psychological issues for-as well as prejudice against-people who have a mixed ancestry leaving them at neither end of the polar spectrum, neither Black nor White, but biracial or tri-racial.

Alang, Sirry. “The More Things Change, the More Things Stay the Same: Race, Ethnicity, and Police Brutality.” American Journal of Public Health (1971), vol. 108, no. 9, American Public Health Association, 2018, pp. 1127–28, doi:10.2105/AJPH.2018.304628.

Arianna Montero-Colbert, et al. “‘What Were You Thinking?’: Race, Gender, Victimhood, and Criminality in US Immigration Court.” Journal of Identity and Migration Studies : JIMS, vol. 13, no. 2, The Department of Political Sciences and Communication Sciences, 2019, pp. 26–192.

Beckles‐Raymond, Gabriella. “Implicit Bias, (Global) White Ignorance, and Bad Faith: The Problem of Whiteness and Anti‐black Racism.” Journal of Applied Philosophy, vol. 37, no. 2, 2020, pp. 169–89, doi:10.1111/japp.12385

Cassese, Erin C., and Tiffany D. Barnes. “Reconciling Sexism and Women’s Support for Republican Candidates: A Look at Gender, Class, and Whiteness in the 2012 and 2016 Presidential Races.” Political Behavior, vol. 41, no. 3, Springer US, 2019, pp. 677–700, doi:10.1007/s11109-018-9468-2.

Deliovsky, Katerina, and Tamari Kitossa. “Beyond Black and White: When Going Beyond May Take Us Out of Bounds.” Journal of Black Studies, vol. 44, no. 2, Sage Publications, 2013, pp. 158–81, doi:10.1177/0021934712471533.

Ferreira, J. (2014). From college readiness to ready for revolution! Third world student activism at a Northern California community college, 1965–1969. Kalfou, 1(1).

Gillborn, David. “Intersectionality, Critical Race Theory, and the Primacy of Racism: Race, Class, Gender, and Disability in Education.” Qualitative Inquiry, vol. 21, no. 3, SAGE Publications, 2015, pp. 277–87, doi:10.1177/1077800414557827.

Guy Aitchison-Cornish. Border-Crossing: Immigration Law, Racism and Justified Resistance. 2021.

Moffitt, Kimberly R. “‘Light-Skinned People Always Win’: An Autoethnography of Colorism in a Mother–Daughter Relationship.” Women, Gender, and Families of Color, vol. 8, no. 1, University of Illinois Press, 2020, pp. 65–86.

Pyke, Karen D. “What Is Internalized Racial Oppression and Why Don’t We Study It? Acknowledging Racism’s Hidden Injuries.” Sociological Perspectives, vol. 53, no. 4, University of California Press, 2010, pp. 551–72, doi:10.1525/sop.2010.53.4.551.

Rashmi Dyal-Chand. “Autocorrecting for Whiteness.” Boston University Law Review, vol. 101, no. 1, Boston University School of Law, 2021, pp. 191–286.

Reardon, Jenny, and Kim TallBear. “Your DNA Is Our History: Genomics, Anthropology, and the Construction of Whiteness as Property.” Current Anthropology, vol. 53, no. S5, University of Chicago Press, 2012, pp. S233–S245, doi:10.1086/662629.

Reynolds, Rema, and Darquillius Mayweather. “Recounting Racism, Resistance, and Repression: Examining the Experiences and #Hashtag Activism of College Students with Critical Race Theory and Counternarratives.” The Journal of Negro Education, vol. 86, no. 3, The Journal of Negro Education, 2017, pp. 283–304, doi:10.7709/jnegroeducation.86.3.0283.

Shankar, Shalini. “Nothing Sells Like Whiteness: Race, Ontology, and American Advertising.” American Anthropologist, vol. 122, no. 1, 2020, pp. 112–19, doi:10.1111/aman.13354.

Somerville, Siobhan. “Scientific Racism and the Emergence of the Homosexual Body.” Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 5, no. 2, University of Chicago Press, 1994, pp. 243–66.

Valdez, Natali. “Reproducing Whiteness: Race, Food, and Epigenetics.” American Anthropologist, vol. 122, no. 3, 2020, pp. 668–69, doi:10.1111/aman.13451.

"Good Hair" and other Dubious Distinctions
Focusing on issues of value, identity, privilege, and shame, this documentary features personal narratives and sociological discussion on how hair and other personal features are used as a means for stereotyping in the African-American community. The program highlights issues of pressure, conformity, and acceptance; looks at beauty as a social construction; and examines how these issues have different impacts on men and women of different ages.
Brick by brick : a civil rights story
Uses the bitter struggle over equal housing rights in Yonkers, New York during the 1980s to show the 'massive resistance' the Civil Rights movement confronted when it moved North
Can You See the Color Gray?
Can You See the Color Gray?" shows numerous people from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds as they grapple with probing questions about their racial attitudes and their feelings about their own ethnicity. The video is particularly revealing in its exploration of the subtle development of racial attitudes in children of varying ages, some of whom are followed over a two-year period.
Dealing with diversity 3 series
Videos exploring diverse cultures and ethnicities of the U.S.
Documenting Hate: New American Nazis
This episode of Frontline exposes a new neo-Nazi group that has actively recruited inside the U.S. military. An investigation with ProPublica's A.C. Thompson shows the group’s terrorist objectives and how it gained strength after the 2017 Unite the Right in Charlottesville rally.
Eugenics: Science's Greatest Scandal: Episode 1
Science journalist Angela Saini and disability rights activist Adam Pearson, reveal that eugenics - the controversial idea that was a driving force behind the Nazi death camps - originated in the upper echelons of the British scientific community. The documentary uncovers disturbing links between British universities and German race scientists in the first half of the 20th century and investigates how eugenics fed into the racist ideologies of Nazi Germany.
Eugenics: Science's Greatest Scandal: Episode 2
Science journalist Angela Saini and disability rights activist Adam Pearson, reveal that eugenics - the controversial idea that was a driving force behind the Nazi death camps - originated in the upper echelons of the British scientific community. The documentary uncovers disturbing links between British universities and German race scientists in the first half of the 20th century and investigates how eugenics fed into the racist ideologies of Nazi Germany.
Nazi America: A Secret History
This A&E Special traces the history of Nazism in America from its early days to today’s neo-Nazis, who rely on both their constitutionally protected freedom of speech and radical action to advance their agenda of Aryan purity.
Prejudice: More Than Black and White
Muslims, blacks, gays, people with disabilities, and immigrants of every ethnicity and color: these and many other groups have stood in the spotlight glare of intolerance, easy targets for every sort of discrimination and violence. In this program, psychology professors Susan Fiske, of Princeton University, and Mahzarin Banaji, of Harvard University; representatives of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and other pro-tolerance groups; and victims of prejudice share their insights and experiences.
State of Hate: The Explosion of White Supremacy
Fareed Zakaria traces the roots of the current white supremacy crisis in the United States and reports on how the number of hate groups has soared to a record number and hate crimes are up by double digits.
Taking a Stance Against Racism and Discrimination
They're an average American family at a typical American restaurant. They also happen to be Hispanic (not to mention that the restaurant is situated in Tucson, Arizona, a hub of our nation's ongoing immigration debate). From out of nowhere, an off-duty security guard asks to see their documentation, and as he grows more insistent, the other diners nervously consider what steps, if any, to take. It's a scenario drawn from real life, no doubt, but in this case, the guard and the family are actors in a hidden-camera ABC News segment-one designed to spark reactions from onlookers. Several other staged dilemmas are also included here: Jewish customers face an anti-Semitic cashier, hearing-impaired job seekers aren't allowed to fill out applications, an HIV-positive man is subjected to verbal attacks, and an African-American man is accosted for having a white daughter.
The talk : race in America
The Talk – Race in America is a two-hour film about “the talk” that parents have with their children of color (primarily boys) to teach them how to act around the police in order to remain safe.
Who Put the Klan into Ku Klux Klan?
In this surprising documentary, archaeologist and historian Neil Oliver examines the links between racism today in the Deep South and the Scots who first occupied it.

Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing Writing for a Socially Just Future (Open Textbook Library) textbook licensed under CC BY NC SA

Beyond Race: Cultural Influences on Human Social Life (Open Textbook Library) textbook licensed under CC BY NC SA

Conversations You Can't Have on Campus: Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Identity (MIT OpenCourseWare) course licensed CC BY-NC-SA

Ethnic and National Identity (MIT OpenCourseWare) course licensed CC BY-NC-SA

Gender, Race, and the Construction of the American West (MIT OpenCourseWare) course licensed CC BY-NC-SA

Immigrant and Refugee Families (Open Textbook Library) textbook licensed under CC BY NC SA

Intercultural Communication (Open Textbook Library) textbook licensed under CC BY NC SA

Introduction to Sociology 2e, Race and Ethnicity, Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination (OER Commons) module licensed under CC BY-NC

Introduction to Sociology 2e, Race and Ethnicity, Race and Ethnicity in the United States (OER Commons) module licensed under CC BY-NC

Introduction to Sociology 2e, Race and Ethnicity, Racial, Ethnic, and Minority Groups (OER Commons) module licensed under CC BY-NC

Looking Closely at Ourselves (OER Commons) lesson plan

Making the White Man's West (OAPEN) book licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

The Myths That Made America (OAPEN) book licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Perspectives: An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology (Open Textbook Library) textbook licensed under CC BY NC SA

The Places of Migration in United States History (MIT OpenCourseWare) course licensed CC BY-NC-SA

Protect, Serve, and Deport: The Rise of Policing as Immigration Enforcement (OAPEN) book licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Race and Contention in Twenty-First Century U.S. Media (OAPEN) book licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Race and Ethnicity in the United States (LibreTexts) Brief readings including short exercises and very good maps and charts, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA.

Race and Public Administration (OAPEN) book licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Race and Racism (MIT OpenCourseWare) course licensed CC BY-NC-SA

Race and Science (MIT OpenCourseWare) course licensed CC BY-NC-SA

Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World (Open Textbook Library) textbook licensed under CC BY NC SA

Science and Race: Concept and Category (MERLOT) tutorial.

Stratification by Race and Ethnicity (OER Commons) module licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

Stratification- Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sex and Sexuality (OER Commons) module licensed under CC BY

Structural racism and police violence: causes, impact, and reform (SAGE Open) open-access journal

Violence, Human Rights, and Justice (MIT OpenCourseWare) course licensed CC BY-NC-SA

What We Now Know about Race and Ethnicity (OAPEN) book licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Writing About Race (MIT OpenCourseWare) courses licensed CC BY-NC-SA

Writing About Race | Comparative Media Studies/Writing (MERLOT) course licensed under CC BY NC SA

Writing Early American Lives: Gender, Race, Nation, Faith (MIT OpenCourseWare) course licensed CC BY-NC-SA

American Eugenics Movement Image Archive (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The Archive contains over 3,000 images of photographs, lantern slides, correspondence, journals, texts, manuscripts, charts, and data -- including extensive collections from noted eugenicists.

Archive of Immigrant Voices (Center for Global Migration Studies, Department of History, University of Maryland)

The purpose of the archive is to create, accumulate, and preserve a repository of memories stories of the experience of migration that will not only reveal living history and features of the recent past, but will also document the fine lines of social change that might be otherwise ignored or lost to history.

Code Switch - Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity (NPR)

Hosted by journalists of color, this podcast tackles the subject of race head-on. We explore how it impacts every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, sports and everything in between.

The Documented Border (University of Arizona Libraries Special Collections)

The goal of this archive is is to advance understanding and awareness about the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and its peoples during a period of unprecedented societal change. The innovative archive focuses on untold and silenced stories and events about this transnational region.

Immigration since 1840 (Digital Public Library of America)

This collection covers discrimination and immigration quotas your family may have experienced. It also covers what it was like to become an American and assimilate and major immigration stations like Angel Island and Ellis Island.

Is Race Real? Social Science Research Council)

A web forum organized by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). Provides a series of short essays by leading researchers with a diverse set of disciplinary and analytic perspectives on race and genomics.

Matters of Race (PBS)

The companion website to the documentary film by the same title. The companion site Includes essays, audio visuals, and interactive statistics focused the social construction of race, racial divides, “reverse racism,” the historical construction of American Indian “otherness,” America’s changing racial composition, and other “matters of race."

Race and Ethnicity (American Sociological Association)

The American Sociological Association is the official national organization for sociologists. The “Race and Ethnicity” topics page provides links to recent news, featured research, and teaching resources related to the study of race and ethnic relations. The page also includes links to related topics, such as, immigration, racism, and specific racial-ethnic groups.

Race: Are we so Different? (American Anthropological Society)

This site looks at race through three lenses: history, human variation, and lived experience to explain differences among people and the (un)reality of race. It includes interactive time lines and activities, essays, visual media, bibliographies, a glossary, and related websites.

Scholars Strategy Network

“The Scholars Strategy Network seeks to improve public policy and strengthen democracy by organizing scholars working in America's colleges and universities, and connecting scholars and their research to policymakers, citizens associations, and the media.”

Race - The Society Pages (Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota)

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project that provides articles and blogs written by scholars in the field of race and ethnic relations.

What the Census Calls Us (Pew Research Center)

Explore the different race, ethnicity and origin categories used in the U.S. decennial census, from the first one in 1790 to the latest count in 2010. The category names often changed in a reflection of current politics, science and public attitudes.