Suggested Reading
Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell, and Maya Sen, The Political Legacy of American Slavery, Forthcoming, Journal of Politics, February 23, 2016
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Gloria Anzaldua, Norma Cantu and Aida Hurtado, Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Edward E. Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Douglas Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963
Campney, Missouri Historical Review, The Bootheel, The Drift of things in Southeast Missouri, 2019
William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb, Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence Against Mexican Americanism the United States, 1848-1928
Robert J. Cottrol, The Long, Lingering Shadow: Slavery, Race, and Law in the American Hemisphere
Mark Curriden and Leroy Phillips Jr., Contempt of Court: The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching That Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism
Robert DeFina & Lance Hannon, The Legacy of Black Lynching and Contemporary Segregation in the South, 2011
W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk
Rachel M. Durso and David Jacobs, The Determinants of the Number of White Supremacist Groups, Social Problems, Vol. 60, No. 1 (February 2013)
Harriet C Frazier, Lynchings in Missouri, 1803-1981
Gateway Journalism Review, The 1875 Project, 2020
James Goodman, Stories of Scottsboro
S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
Grace Elizabeth Hale, Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
Frank M. Howell1 • John P. Bartkowski2 • Lynn M. Hempel3 • Jeremy R. Porter, When Faith, Race, and Hate Collide: Religious Ecology, Local Hate Cultures, and Church Burnings, 2017
Sherrilyn Ifill, On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the 21st Century
David Jacobs and Jason T. Carmichael, The Political Sociology of the Death Penalty: A Pooled Time-Series Analysis, American Sociological Review, Vol. 67, No. 1 (Feb., 2002)
Walter Johnson, The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States • Gilbert King, Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Michael Klarman, From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality
Michael R. Kramer, The legacy of slavery and contemporary declines in heart disease mortality in the U.S. South, Elzelvier, SSM Population Health, Science Direct, 2017
Kenneth W. Mack and Guy-Uriel Charles, The New Black: What Has Changed - and What Has Not - with Race in America
Peter Matthiessen, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI’s War on the American Indian Movement
James L. Massey and Martha A. Myers, Patterns of Repressive Social Control in Post-Reconstruction Georgia, 1882-1935, Social Forces, Vol. 68, No. 2 (Dec., 1989)
Distrust of Government, the Vigilante Tradition, and Support for Capital Punishment, Steven F. Messner, Eric P. Baumer, Richard Rosenfeld, 2006
Steven F. Messner, Robert D. Baller, Matthew P. Zevenbergen, The Legacy of Lynching and Southern Homicide, American Sociological Review, Vol. 70, No. 4 (Aug., 2005)
Jonathan M. Metzl, Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland Copyright 2019
Jose Luis Morin, Latino/a Rights and Justice in the United States
Ngozi Ndulue and Rob Dunham, Enduring Injustice: the Persistence of Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Death Penalty, Death Penalty Information Center, 2020
Eduardo Obregon Pagan, Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A.
Nick Petersen and Geoff Ward, The Transmission of Historical Racial Violence: Lynching, Civil Rights–Era Terror, and Contemporary Interracial Homicide
Charles David Phillips, Exploring Relations among Forms of Social Control: The Lynching and Execution of Blacks in North Carolina, 1889-1918, Law & Society Review, Vol. 21, No. 3 (1987), pp. 361-374
Charles David Phillips, Social Structure and Social Control: Modeling the Discriminatory Execution of Blacks in Georgia and North Carolina, 1925-35, Social Forces, Vol. 65, No. 2 (Dec., 1986)
Jeremy R. Porter Plantation Economics, Violence, and Social Well-being: The Lingering Effects of Racialized Group Oppression on Contemporary Human Development in the American South, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 10 Aug 2011
Robert L. Reece and Heather A. O’Connell, How the Legacy of Slavery and Racial Composition Shape Public School Enrollment in the American South, American Sociological Association 2015
Theodore Rosengarten, All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
Michael Rothburg, The Implicated Subject Beyond Victims and Perpetrators, 2019
Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Shelly Tochluk, Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It Second Edition Jan 16, 2010
Margaret Vandiver, William Lofquist, David Giacopassi, Slavery's Enduring Legacy, University of Memphis State University of New York at Geneseo, USA, Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice, 23 Sep 2008
Geoff Ward, Microclimates of racial meaning: Historical Racial Violence and Environmental impacts, 2016
Waziyatawin, What Does Justice Look Like? The Struggle for Liberation in Dakota Homeland
Laura Wexler, Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America
Robert Whitaker, On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation
Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration Equal Justice
Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of our Discontents, 2020