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