• Allport, Gordon. 1954. The Nature of Prejudice. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

  • The classic work on individual prejudice.

• Baca, Zinn, Maxine, Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette, and Messner, Michael. 2010. Gender Through the Prism of Difference. New York: Oxford University Press.

o   A global perspective on gender that stresses intersectionality.

• Feagin, Joseph. 2001. RacistAmerica. New York: Routledge.

o   A passionate analysis of the pervasiveness of racism and antiblack prejudice in America.

• Morning, Ann. 2011.The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach About Human Difference. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

o   An intriguing, very well written study of the ways the concept of race is presented and perpetuated in modern science

• New York Times. 2001. How Race is Lived in America. New York: Times Books.

o   An in-depth look at the continuing importance of race in American life conducted by correspondents of the New York Times. Based on the Pulitzer-Prize winning television documentary

• Omi, Michael, & Winant, Howard. 1986. Racial Formation in the United States from the 1960s to the 1980s. New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

o   An adept analysis of the social and political uses of race.

• Smedley, Audrey and Smedley, Brian. 2011. Race in North American: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

o   An analysis of the origins of the American view of race.

• Takaki, Ronald. 1993. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. Boston: Little, Brown.

o   A highly readable look at minority groups and cultural diversity in American life.

• Alba, Richard. (1990). Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

  • A useful analysis of the changing meanings of ethnic identity for the descendants of European immigrants.

• Alba, Richard, & Nee, Victor. (2003). Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

• Bean, Frank, & Stevens, Gillian. (2003). America’s Newcomers and the Dynamics of Diversity. New York: Russell Sage.

  • Two recent works that argue that the “traditional” model of assimilation remains viable.

• Foner, Nancy. (2005). In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration. New York: NYU Press.

  • A masterful analysis of immigration across time and space

• Gordon, Milton. (1964). Assimilation in American Life. New York: Oxford University Press.

• Herberg, Will. (1960). Protestant-Catholic-Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology. New York:Anchor.

  • Two classic works of scholarship on assimilation, religion, and white ethnic groups.

• Perlman, Joel. (2005). Italians Then, Mexicans Now. New York: Russell Sage.

  • A detailed, intriguing, and rigorous comparison of immigrant groups from two different eras.

• Portes, Alejandro, & Rumbaut, Richard. (2001). Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

• Portes, Alejandro, & Rumbaut, Rubén (2001). Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation. Berkeley: University of California Press.

• Zhou, Min, & Bankston, Carl. (1998). Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States. New York: Russell Sage.

  • Three outstanding works analyzing the new immigrants and the concept of segmented assimilation.

• Allport, Gordon. (1954). The Nature of Prejudice. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

  • A classic work in the field. A comprehensive summary of theory and research.

• Bonacich, Edna, & Modell, John. (1980). The Economic Basis of Ethnic Solidarity: Small Business in the Japanese American Community. Berkeley: University of California Press.

  • Split labor market theory applied to the Japanese American community.

• Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. (2013). Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States (4th ed.). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

  • One of the most important treatments of modern (or “color-blind”) racism

• Gerstenfield, Phyllis. 2013. Hate Crimes: Causes, Controls, and Controversies. Third Edition Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage

  • A very useful collection of articles and viewpoints on hate crimes.

• Wingfield, Adia & Feagin, Joe. 2013. Yes We Can?: White Racial Framing and the Obama Presidency. 2^nd ed. New York: Routledge

  • One of the most important analyses of Obama’s election and presidency

• Yancey, George. (2007). Interracial Contact and Social Change. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

  • A thin volume that presents a comprehensive and largely positive assessment of the contact hypothesis.

• Genovese, E. D. (1974). Roll, Jordan, roll: The world the slaves made. New York: Pantheon.

• Gutman, H. G. (1976). The black family in slavery and freedom, 1750–1925. New York: Vintage.

• Levine, L. (1977). Black culture and black consciousness. New York: Oxford University Press.

• Rawick, G. P. (1972). From sundown to sunup: The making of the black community. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

•  Stuckey, S. (1987). Slave culture: Nationalist theory and the foundations of black America. New York: Harper & Row.

  • A short list of five vital sources on the origins and psychological and cultural impact of slavery in America.

• Brown, D. (1970). Bury my heart at Wounded Knee. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

  • An eloquent and moving account of the conquest of American Indians.

• Nabakov, P. (Ed.). (1999). Native American testimony (rev. ed.). New York: Penguin.

  • A collection of valuable and insightful American Indian accounts of the past 500 years.

• ·Wax, M. (1971). Indian Americans: Unity and diversity. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

  • A compact and informative analysis of the history and present situation of American Indians.

• McWilliams, C. (1961). North from Mexico: The Spanish-speaking people of the United States. New York: Monthly Review Press.

• A classic overview of the historical development of Mexican Americans. \Acuna, R. (1999). Occupied America (4th ed.). New York: Harper & Row.

  • Acuna examines a broad sweep of Mexican American experiences and argues that their status is comparable to that of other colonized groups.

• Mirandé, A. (1985). The Chicano experience: An alternative perspective. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press.

  • A passionate argument for a new sociological approach to the study of Mexican Americans. Many useful insights into Mexican American family structures, the problem of crime, and other areas.

• Bluestone, Barry, & Harrison, Bennet. 1982. The Deindustrialization of America. New York: Basic Books.

  • The classic analysis of the shift from a manufacturing to a service-based, information society

• Feagin, Joe R., & Feagin, Clairece Booher. 1986. Discrimination American Style: Institutional Racism and Sexism. Malabar, FL: Robert E. Krieger.

  • A comprehensive and provocative look at modern institutional discrimination

• Geschwender, James A. 1978. Racial Stratification in America. Dubuque, IA: William C. Brown.

• Wilson, William J. 1973. Power, Racism, and Privilege: Race Relations in Theoretical and Sociohistorical Perspectives. New York: Free Press.

• Woodward, C. Vann. 1974. The Strange Career of Jim Crow (3rd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.

  • Three outstanding analyses of black-white relations in the United States, with a major focus on the historical periods covered in this chapter

• Pincus, Fred. 2003. Reverse Discrimination: Dismantling the Myth. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reiner.

  • A compact, masterful review of the myths and realities surrounding affirmative action

• Kennedy, Randall. 2013. For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law. New York: Pantheon Books

  • A penetrating analysis of the pros and cons of Affirmative action by a Harvard Law professor.

• Wilkerson, Isabel. 2010. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. New York: Vintage Books

  • A beautifully written, deeply moving account of the movement of African Americans out of the South

• The New York Times. 2001. How Race is Lived in America. New York: Times Books.

  • A comprehensive investigation by reporters of The New York Times on how race is lived in the everyday lives of ordinary Americans

• Feagin, Joe. 2001. Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations. New York: Routledge.

• Two readable overviews of contemporary black-white relations

• Massey, Douglas, & Denton, Nancy. 1993. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

  • Argues powerfully that residential segregation is the key to understanding urban black poverty

• Morris, Aldon D. 1984. The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Free Press.

• An indispensable source  on the southern civil rights movement

• Wilson, William J. 2010. More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City. New York: W. W. Norton.

  • The latest publication of one of the most important authorities on race in the United States

• Wingfield, Adia, & Feagin, Joe. 2013. Yes We Can? White Racial Framing and the Obama Presidency.  2^nd Edition New York: Routledge.

  • An important analysis of the racial dynamics of Obama’s 2008 election campaign, his presidency, and the 2012 campaign

• Alexander, Michelle. 2012. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.  New York City: The New Press

  • Outlines the devastating impact of the “War on Drugs” on the black community.

• Stainback, Kevin and Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald.  2012. Documenting Desegregation: Racial and Gender Segregation in Private-Sector Employment Since the Civil Rights Act.  New York City: Russell Sage Foundation.

  • A remarkable, sweeping analysis of continuing discrimination in the United States based on the records of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. 

• Amott, Teresa, & Matthaei, Julie. 1991. I Am the Fire of Time: American Indian Women. In T. Amott & J. Matthaei (Eds.), Race, Gender, and Work: A Multicultural History of Women in the United States (pp. 31–62). Boston: South End.

  • A good overview of the history and present situation of American Indian women

• ​Bordewich, Fergus. 1996. Killing the White Man’s Indian. New York: Doubleday.

  • A comprehensive, dispassionate analysis of current problems and future possibilities

• Brown, Dee. 1970. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston

  • A passionately written, highly readable account of the military defeat and establishment of dominance over American Indians

• Deloria, Vine. 1969. Custer Died for Your Sins. New York: Macmillan.

• Deloria, Vine. 1970. We Talk, You Listen. New York: Macmillan.

• Deloria, Vine. 1995. Red Earth, White Lies. New York: Scribner’s.

  • The three major works of the well-known American Indian activist, writer, and professor of Indian studies

• Nabakov, Peter (Ed.). 1999. Native American Testimony. New York: Penguin.

  • A collection of personal accounts by American Indians from pre-Columbian times to the present day

• Treuer, David. 2012. Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey Through Reservation Life. Atlantic Monthly Press

  • A highly personal, scholarly, and deeply reflective account of modern life on the reservation.

• Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. 2007. The State of Native Nations: Conditions Under U.S. Policies of Self-Determination. Oxford University Press.

  • A comprehensive account of contemporary Native American struggles, featuring the writing of an array of scholars and activists.

• Snipp, C. Matthew. 1989. American Indians: The First of This Land. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

  • A valuable scholarly study covering a variety of aspects of the American Indian condition

• Acosta-Belen, Edna, & Santiago, Carlos. 2006. Puerto Ricans in the United States: A Contemporary Portrait. Boulder Colorado: Lynne Reiner.

  • A good overview of the history and present situation of Puerto Ricans

• Acuña, Rodolfo. 2010. Occupied America (7th ed.). New York: Prentice Hall.

  • Reviews Mexican American history and argues that the experiences of this group resemble those of colonized groups

• Garcia, Maria Cristina. 1997. Havana USA: Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida, 1959–1994. Berkeley: University of California Press.

  • A comprehensive history of the Cuban community in southern Florida

• Portes, Alejandro, & Bach, Robert L. 1985. Latin Journey: Cuban and Mexican Immigrants in the United States. Berkeley: University of California Press.

  • ​A landmark analysis of Latino immigration, ethnic enclaves, and the United States and assimilation

• Smith, Robert C. 2006. Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants. Berkeley: University of California Press.

  • A ground-breaking study of globalization, transnationalism, and immigration focused on Mexicans in New York and Mexico

• Telles, Edward, & Ortiz, Vilma. 2008. Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race. New York: Russell Sage.

  • An important look at assimilation among Mexicans Americans

• Chou, Rosalind, & Feagin, Joe. 2008. The Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism. Boulder, CO: Paradigm.

  • Based on in-depth interviews and a comprehensive analysis of Asian Americans, including an analysis of the model minority image

• Espiritu, Yen. 2007. Asian American Women and Men: Labor, Laws, and Love (The Gender Lens) (2nd ed.). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

  • Analyzes the intersections of race, class, and gender among Asian Americans

• Kitano, Harry, & Daniels, Roger. 2001. Asian Americans: Emerging Minorities (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

•          Min, Pyong Gap (Ed.). 2006. Asian Americans: Contemporary Trends and Issues (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

  • Two good overviews of the Asian American groups covered in this chapter

• Tuan, Mia. 2005. Forever Foreigners or Honorary Whites? New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

  •  A penetrating account of the continuing anti-Asian racism and discrimination

• Zhou, Min. 1992. Chinatown. Philadelphia: Temple University Press

  • An excellent analysis of Chinatown, with a behind-the-scenes look at the realities often hidden from outsiders

• Alba, Richard, & Nee, Victor. 2003. Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

• Bean, Frank, & Stevens, Gillian. 2003. America’s Newcomers and the Dynamics of Diversity. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

• Kasinitz, Philip, Mollenkopf, John H., Waters, Mary C., & Holdaway, Jennifer. 2008. Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

  • Three landmark studies of contemporary immigrants that find that assimilation is generally following a course consistent with the “traditional” model of assimilation

• Portes, Alejandro, & Rumbaut, Rubén. 2001. Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

• Portes, Alejandro, & Rumbaut, Rubén. 2001. Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

  • Two landmark studies of new American groups whose findings are generally consistent with the segmented assimilation hypothesis

• Edin, Kathryn and Kefalas, Maria. 2011.  Promises I can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press

  • An account, based on in-depth interviews, of the child-rearing and marriage values and norms of poor women.

• Ferguson, Ann. 2001. Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

  • Explores the racialized treatment of black and white boys in public schools.

• Barndt, Deborah. 2007. Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail 

  • An intersectionality tour-de-force that follows the production of tomatoes in Mexico to their consumption in the U.S.

• Jordan-Young, Rebecca. 2011. Brainstorm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

  • A sweeping analysis of the evidence that gender differences are “hard-wired” in our brains

• Kimmel, Michael.2013. Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era. New York: Nation Books

  • One of the leading sociologists of gender analyzes masculinity in the era of deindustrialization and increasing diversity

• Gray, Mary. 2009. Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America. New York: NYU Press.

  • A ground-breaking study of rural LGB young.

• Pascoe, C.J. 2011. Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School. Berkely, CA: University of California Press.

  • Analyzes homophobia, gender, and masculinity in a high school setting

• Wolkomir, Michelle. 2006. Be Not Deceived: The Sacred and Sexual Struggles of Gay and ex-Gay Christian Men. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press

  • A study of two Christian organizations for gay men; one that believes that homosexuality is a sin and one that accepts homosexuality as part of the divine plan

• Rivers, Daniel. 2013. Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers and Their Children Since World War II. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press

  • The first history of gay and lesbian parents and their children.

• Siraj al-Haqq Kugle, Scott.  2013. Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims. New York: NYU Press

  • Documents the struggles of LGBT Muslims to live out their faith.

• Brazil: Cottrol, Robert. 2013. The Long Lingering Shadow: Slavery, Race, and Law in the American Hemisphere. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press

• South Africa: Mandela Nelson, 2000.  The Long Walk to Freedom. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston

• The Rwanda Genocide: Gourevitch, Philip. 1999. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families. New York: Picador

• Canada: McEwen, Nicola. 2006. Nationalism and the State: Welfare and Identity in Scotland and Quebec. Brussels: Peter Lang

  • Northern Ireland: McKittrick, David and McVea, David. 2002. Making Sense of the Troubles: The Story of the Conflict in Northern Ireland. Chicago: New Amsterdam Books.

There are numerous sources, movies as well as scholarly books, on the dominant-minority situations covered in this chapter. Some of the many sources on some of the conflicts are listed here.

• Brazil: Cottrol, Robert. 2013. The Long Lingering Shadow: Slavery, Race, and Law in the American Hemisphere. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press

• South Africa: Mandela Nelson, 2000.  The Long Walk to Freedom. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston

• The Rwanda Genocide: Gourevitch, Philip. 1999. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families. New York: Picador

• Canada: McEwen, Nicola. 2006. Nationalism and the State: Welfare and Identity in Scotland and Quebec. Brussels: Peter Lang

  • Northern Ireland: McKittrick, David and McVea, David. 2002. Making Sense of the Troubles: The Story of the Conflict in Northern Ireland. Chicago: New Amsterdam Books.