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ATTENTION: Incredibly important article: "The End of the World As You Know It" by Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch.com, April 16, 2008. On-line at www.countercurrents.org/klare160408.htm.
Barstow, David. 2008. "Message Machine: Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand." The New York Times, April 20. On-line, with audio, at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/20generals.html?_r=1&oref=slogin.
ATTENTION: SPECIAL ITEMS RE US IRAQ WAR VETERANS--see WINTER SOLDIER: IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN Hearings, on-line for free!
See "Winter Soldier Iraq and Afghanistan" by Gerald Nicosia, April 17, 2008. On-line at www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php?id=999.
"Veterans Rally Against Iraq War." Time. March 14, 2008. On-line at http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1722659,00.html. For complete account of "Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan," go to the Iraq Veterans Against the War web site: http://ivaw.org/index.php.
Special article on up-coming "Winter Solider Hearings" in Washington, DC (March 13-16, 2008), organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War, that talks about the war and some of the affects it has had on US troops:
Leve, Ariel. 2008. "Patriot Missiles: Iraq Veterans Against the War." The (London, UK) Sunday Times, March 2. On-line at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3444835.ece?Submitted=true.
The books and articles listed below are merely some of the items available on the subjects I teach (organized by subject), after general sociological works, but I think they are some of the better ones, although most of the listings below are of books. Inclusion on this list does not necessarily mean I agree with them, but I’ve found them worth considering. This list is in no way comprehensive, but rather an introduction. Please feel free to check them out, and to suggest other books that you think are particularly noteworthy. Courses taught include Race and Ethnic Diversity, Social Stratification (i.e., income inequality), Sociology of Developing Countries, Sociology of the Environment, and Sociology of the Media. And, although starting quite slowly, I will add material for a class on Social Movements that I will teach in the Summer of 2008.
Barker, Michael. 2007. "Conform or Reform? Social Movements and the Mass Media." Fifth-Estate-Online--International Journal of Radical Mass Media Criticism. On-line at www.fifth-estate-online.co.uk/criticsm/conformorreformsocialmovements.html.
Benjamin, Medea. 2006. "Let's Toast to Ten Good Things About 2006." Common Dreams, December 30. On-line at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=72&itemID=11740.
Bray, James H. and John Kelly. 1998. StepFamilies: Love, Marriage, and Parenting in the First Decade. New York: Broadway Books.
Castro Ruz, Fidel. 2007. "The Internationalization of Genocide." MR Zine, April 5. On-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/castro050407.html.
Clausen, Rebecca. 2007. "Straight from the Billionaire's Mouth." MR Zine, April 11. On-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/clausen110407.html.
Cutser, Greg. 2003. Fat Land. New York: Houghton-Mifflin.
Dow, David R. 2006. Executed on a Technicality: Lethal Injustice on America's Death Row. NEED DETAILS.
Dreier, Peter and Daniel May. 2007. "Progressive Jews Organize." The Nation, October 1. On-line at www.thenation.com/doc/20071001/dreier_may.
Dyson, Anne Haas. 2003. The Brothers and Sisters Learn to Write: Popular Literacies in Childhood and School Cultures. New York: Teachers College Press.
Elbaum, Max. 2007. "Keep on Pushin': Today's Anti-War Dilemmas in Historical Perspective." MR Zine, April 4. On-line at http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/elbaum040407.html.
Fox, Matthew. 2006. A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions.
Hooks, Bell. 2000. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. Cambridge, MA: South End Press.
Jacobs, Ron. 2007. "Sitting on the Group W Bench--War and Arlo Guthrie's Thanksgiving." Z Net, November 20. On-line at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=1&itemID=14330. NOTE: The article has a link to Arlo playing his wonderful song, "Alice's Restaurant Massacree"--all 18 minutes! If you haven't heard this before, it's a true treat!
Kennedy, Robert F., Jr. 2006. "Was the 2004 Elections Stolen?" Rolling Stone, June 1. On-line at www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_election_stolen.
Linn, Susan. 2004. Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood. New York: The New Press.
Lorber, Judith. 2001. Gender Inequality. Los Angeles: Roxbury.
Pilger, John. 2007. "Why They're Afraid of Michael Moore." October 19. On-line at www.countercurrents.org/pilger191007.htm.
Piven, Frances Fox. 2004. The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush’s Militarism. New York and London: The New Press.
Reuters. 2007. "Global Military Spending Hits $1.2 Trillion, Study Says." Common Dream.org Newscenter. June 11. On-line at www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/11/1807.
Sheehan, Cindy. 2005. Not One More Mother’s Child. Kihei, Hawai’I and Santa Fe, NM: Koa Books.
Solnit, Rebecca. 2007. "The 2006 You Didn't Hear About." AlterNet, January 2. On-line at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=1&itemID=11756.
Sopoci-Belknap, Kaitlin. 2007. "Challenging Corporate Power: California Community Says Companies are Not People; Bans Campaign Donations." Yes! Magazine, September 13. On-line at www.alternet.org/story/61737.
Spurlock, Morgan. 2005. Don't Eat This Book. New York: Penguin.
Stever, Faye B. and Jason T. Herstedt. 2002. TV or No TV: A Primer on the Psychology of Television. New Jersey: University Press of America.
Stone, Linda and Nancy P. McKee. 1999. Gender and Culture in America. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
Street, Paul. 2007. "Barack Obama's Wonderful Wealth Primary." Z Net, April 11. On-line at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=72&itemID12551.
Veihmeyer, Doug. 2007. "Steppin' It Up: The New SDS." Z Net, March 21. On-line at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=1&itemID=12392.
Weisman, Jonathan and Amit R. Paley. 2007. "Dozens in GOP Turn Against Bush's Prized 'No Child' Act." Washington Post, March 15. On-line at www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=9414.
These references are listed by particular racial/ethnic group, and are not equally represented. The overwhelming majority of books on African Americans represents my academic interest, as well as growing number of books on African Americans—and is not to suggest they are any more important than any other grouping. Within a particular section, books are listed alphabetically by author’s last name. Any book that is about racial/ethnic diversity and which includes two or more groups, or about the issue of racism in general, is generally put under “Race.” This is an on-going work-in-progress. Groups with at least one reference include African Americans, Arab-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Cuban-Americans, Irish-Americans, Italian-Americans, Japanese-Americans, Latinos (as a group), Mexican-Americans/Chicanos, Native Americans, Polish-Americans and Puerto Ricans. (Sources will be added over time for each of them, and additional racial/ethnic groups will also be added.)
Allport, Gordon. 1958. The Nature of Prejudice. Abridged edition. New York: Doubleday Anchor Books.
Almagure, Tomas. 1994. Racial Fault Lines. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Anbinder, Tyler. 2001. Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World’s Most Notorious Slum. NY: Plume.
Arnesen, Eric.
--- 1998. “Up from Exclusion: Black and White Workers, Race and the State of Labor History.” Reviews in American History, March: 146-174.
--- 2001. “Whiteness and the Historians’ Imagination.” International and Working Class History, No. 60, Fall: 3-32.
--- 2001. “Assessing Whiteness Scholarship: A Response to James Barrett, David Brody, Barbara Fields, Eric Foner, Victoria Hattam, and Adolph Reed.” International and Working Class History, No. 60, Fall: 81-82.
Auletta, Ken. 1983. The Underclass. New York: Vintage.
Bartley, Numan V. 1969/1997. The Rise of Massive Resistance: Race and Politics in the South During the 1950s. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Bernal, Martin. 1987: Black Athena—Volume 1: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785-1985. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Barrera, Mario. 1979. Race and Class in the Southwest. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press.
Blake, John. 2004. Children of the Movement. Chicago: Lawrence Hill.
Blauner, Robert. 1972. Racial Oppression in America. New York: Harper and Row.
Blight, David W. 2001. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press.
Burns, Peter F. 2006. Electoral Politics Is Not Enough: Racial and Ethnic Minorities and Urban Politics. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Cole, David. 1999. No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System. New York: The Free Press.
Coles, Roberta L. 2006. Race and Family: A Structural Approach. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Cox, Oliver C. 1948/1970. Caste, Class and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics. New York: Monthly Review (Modern Reader).
Feagin, Joe R. 2000. Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations. New York: Routledge.
Fosl, Catherine. 2002. Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. American Behind the Color Line. NEED DETAILS.
Goldfield, Michael.
--- 1995. “Was There a Golden Age of the CIO? Race, Solidarity and Union Growth During the 1930s and 1940s” in Glenn Perusek and Kent Worchester, eds. Trade Union Politics: American Unions and Economic Change, 1960s-1990s. New Jersey: Humanities Press: 78-110.
--- 1997. “Race and Labor Organization in the United States.” Monthly Review, Vol. 49, No. 3, July-August: 80-97.
--- 1997. The Color of Politics: Race and the Mainsprings of American Politics. New York: The New Press.
Gonzales, Juan. 2000. A History of Latinos in America: Harvest of Empire. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin.
Graves, Joseph L. 2004. The Race Myth. NY: Penguin.
Hacker, Andrew. 1992. Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.
Hurtado, Aida. 1996. The Color of Privilege: Three Blasphemies on Race and Feminism. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Jacobs, Bruce A. 1999. Race Manners: Navigating the Minefield Between Black and White Americans. NY: Arcade Publishing.
Jaschik, Scott. 2007. "Race (Still) Matters." Insidehighered.com, August 15. On-line at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=30&itemID=13538.
Jennings, James and Ricardo Torres. 2007. "Getting Back to Community Organizing and Building Local Power." Black Commentator, September 23. On-line at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=41&itemID=13853.
Katznelson, Ira. 2005. When Affirmative Action was White--An Untold Story of Racial Inequality in Twentieth Century America. (Need details.)
Kennedy, Randall.
--- 2002. Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word. New York: Pantheon Books.
--- 2003. Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity and Adoption. New York: Pantheon Books.
Marable, Manning, Immanuel Ness and Joseph Wilson, eds. 2006. Race and Labor Matters in the New US Economy. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
McCord, Joan, ed. 1997. Violence and Childhood in the Inner City. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Millard, Ann V. and Jorge Chapa. 2004. Apple Pie & Enchiladas: Latino Newcomers in the Rural Midwest. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Mohl, Raymond and Neil Betten. 1986. Steel City: Urban and Ethnic Patterns in Gary, Indiana, 1906-1950. New York and London: Holmes and Meier.
Nagel, Joane. 1994. "Constructing Ethnicity: Creating and Recreating Ethnic Identity and Culture." Social Problems, Vol. 43, February: 152.
Neubeck, Kenneth J. and Noel A. Cozenane. 2001. Welfare Racism: Playing the Race Card Against America's Poor. (Need details)
New York Times, The. 2001. How Race Is Lived in America: Pulling Together, Pulling Apart.. Introduction by Joseph Lelyveld. New York: Henry Holt & Company.
Nguyen, Tram. 2005. We Are All Suspects Now. Boston: Beacon Press.
Oliver, Melvin L. and Thomas M. Shapiro. 1995. Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality. New York and London: Routledge.
Omi, Michael and Howard Winant. 1994. Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to 1990s. New York and London: Routledge.
Roediger, David R.
--- 1991. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class. New York: Verso.
--- 2005. Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White—The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs. New York: Basic Books.
Royster, Deirdre A. 2003. Race and the Invisible Hand: How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Rubin, Lillian B. 1994. Families on the Fault Line: America’s Working Class Speaks About the Family, the Economy, Race and Ethnicity. New York: Harper Perennial.
Scipes, Steven R. “Kim.”
--- 2003. “Trade Union Development and Racial Oppression in Chicago’s Steel and Meatpacking Industries, 1933-1955.” Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago.
--- 2006. "Review of Sandra L. Barnes, The Cost of Being Poor: A Comparative Study of Life in Poor Urban Neighborhoods in Gary, Indiana." Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 28, No. 2: 197-199.
Shipler, David K. 1997. A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America. NY: Alfred A. Knopf.
Stein, Judith. 1998. Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Steinberg, Stephen. 2001. “Race Relations: The Problem with the Wrong Name.” New Politics, Vol. 8, No. 2 (New Series), Winter: 57-61.
Stevans, Ilan. 2001. The Hispanic Condition: The Power of a People. NY: Harper Collins.
Strausbaugh, John. 2006. Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture. NY: Penguin.
Sustar, Lee. 2008. "Racism and Politics in America." January 23. On-line at www.countercurrents.org/sustar230108.htm.
Walker, Samuel, Cassia Spohn, and Miriam DeLeone. 2007. The Color of Justice: Race, Ethnicity and Crime in America, 4th Ed. Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth.
Waller, James. 1998. Face to Face: The Changing State of Racism Across America. New York and London: Plenum Press.
Williams, David R. and Toni D. Rucker. 2000. "Understanding and Addressing Racial Disparities in Health Care." Health Care Financing Review, Vol. 21, No. 4, Summer: 75-90. On-line at www.cms.hhs.gov/apps/review/00summer/00summerrpg75.pdf.
Wilson, William Julius and Richard Taub. 2006. There Goes the Neighborhood. NY: Alfred A. Knopf.
Wise, Tim. 2006. "What Kind of Card is Race? The Absurdity (and Consistency) of White Denial." ZNet, April 26. On-line at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=30&itemID=10157.
West, Cornel. 1993. Race Matters. Boston: Beacon Press.
Williams, Gregory Howard. 1996. Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black. New York: Penguin.
Wing, Adrien Katherine, ed. 2003. Critical Race Feminism: A Reader, 2nd Ed. New York and London: New York University Press.
Wu, Frank H. 2002. Yellow: Race in American Beyond Black and White. NY: Basic Books.
Zia, Helen. 2000. Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux.
Zuberi, Tukufu. 2001. Thicker Than Blood: How Racial Statistics Lie. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
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Anderson, Elijah. 1990. Street Wise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Asim, Jabani. 2007. The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
Bates, Beth Tompkins. 2001. Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Berlin, Ira. 1998. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press.
Bloice, Carl. 2007. "The Double Whammy: Deindustrialization and Home Foreclosures." The Black Commentator, February 26. On-line at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=30&itemID=12205.
Branch, Taylor.
--- 1988. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63. New York: Simon and Schuster.
--- 1998. Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65. New York: Simon and Schuster.
--- 2005. At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Carmichael, Stokely and Charles V. Hamilton. 1967. Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America. New York: Vintage.
Carson, Clayborne. 1981. In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press.
Cayton, Horace and George S. Mitchell. 1939. The Black Worker and the New Unions: Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Collins, Patricia Hill.
--- 1998. Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
--- 2000. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, 2nd Ed. New York and London: Routledge.
--- 2005. Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender and the New Racism. New York and London: Routledge.
Collins, Sharon M. 1997. Black Corporate Executives: The Making and Breaking of a Black Middle Class. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Conley, Dalton. 1999. Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in America. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Crouch, Stanley. 1998. Always in Pursuit: Fresh American Perspectives. New York: Vintage.
Derricotte, Toi. 1999. The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
Dickerson, Dennis C. 1986. Out of the Crucible: Black Steelworkers in Western Pennsylvania, 1875-1980. Albany: State University of New York.
Drake, St. Clair and Horace Cayton. 1945. Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City [Chicago]. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co.
DuBois, W.E.B.
--- 1903/2003. The Souls of Black Folk. New York: Barnes and Nobles Books.
--- 1935/1975. Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880. New York: Atheneum.
Dyson, Michael Eric. 1997. Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line. New York: Vintage.
Emanuel, Ed. 2003. Soul Patrol: The Riveting True Story of the First African American LRRP Team in Vietnam. Toronto: Random House.
Estes, Steve. 2005. I Am a Man! Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Feagin, Joe R., Hernan Vera and Nikitah Imani. 1996. The Agony of Education: Black Students at White Colleges and Universities. NY: Routledge.
Fleming, Cynthia Griggs. 1998. Soon We Will Not Cry: The Liberation of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson. Lanham, MD: Rowan and Littlefield.
Foner, Philip. 1974. Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1973. New York: International Publishers.
Ford, Glen. 2007. "The Growth Engine of the American Prison Gulag." Black Agenda Report, February 26. On-line at www.countercurrents.org/hr-ford280207.htm.
Griffin, John Howard. 1960. Black Like Me. NEED PLACE: Sepia Publishing Co.
Grossman, James R. 1989. Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
Halpern, Rick.
--- 1997. “Race and Radicalism in the Chicago Stockyards: the Rise of the Chicago Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee” in Shelton Stromquist and Marvin Bergman, eds. Unionizing the Jungles: Labor and Community in the Twentieth-Century Meatpacking Industry. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press: 75-95.
--- 1997. Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago’s Packinghouses, 1904-54. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
Halpern, Rick and Roger Horowitz. 1999. Meatpackers: An Oral History of Black Packinghouse Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality. New York: Monthly Review Press.
Harding, Vincent. 1990. Hope and History: Why We Must Share the Story of the Movement. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis.
Harms, Robert. 2002. The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade. New York: Basic Books.
Harris, William H.
--- 1982. The Harder We Run: Black Workers Since the Civil War. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
--- 1991. Keeping the Faith: A. Philip Randolph, Milton P. Webster, and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 1925-37. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
Haskins, Don and Dan Wetzel. 2006. Glory Road. NY: Hyperion.
Herbst, Alma. 1932/1971. The Negro in the Slaughtering and Meat-Packing Industry in Chicago. New York: Arno and the New York Times.
Hill, Herbert. 2002. “Race and the Steelworkers Union: White Privilege and Black Struggles.” New Politics, Vol. 8, No. 4 (New Series), Winter: 147-207.
Hilliard, David and Lewis Cole. 1993. This Side of Glory: The Autobiography of David Hilliard and the Story of the Black Panther Party. Boston: Little, Brown.
Hirsch, Arnold R.
--- 1983/1998. Making of the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
--- 1995. “Massive Resistance in the Urban North: Trumbull Park, Chicago, 1953-1966.” Journal of American History, Vol. 85 (September): 522-551.
Honey, Michael. 2007. Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign. W.W. Norton & Co.
Hope, John, II. 1956 Equality of Opportunity: A Union Approach to Fair Employment. Washington, DC: Public Affairs Press.
Horowitz, Roger. 1997. ‘Negro and White, Unite and Fight!’ A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930-90. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
Jackson, George L. 1972. Blood in My Eye. New York: Bantam Books.
James, C.L.R. 1963. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. New York: Vintage.
Janson, Jay. 2008. "Corporate Media Keeps King 'In His Place'! Buries King's Fiery Condemnation of US Wars." January 22. On-line at www.countercurrents.org/janson220108.htm.
Jones, Jacqueline. 1985. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family, From Slavery to the Present. New York: Vintage.
Josep, Peniel E. 2006. Waiting ‘til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America. New York: Henry Holt.
Katz, William. 1986. Black Indiana: A Hidden Heritage. NY: Aladdin Paperbacks.
Kearney, Jamis F. 2004. Cotton Field of Dreams: A Memoir. Chicago: Writing Our World Press.
Kelley, Robin D.G. 1994. Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class. New York: The Free Press.
Kitwana, Bakari. 2002. The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and The Crisis in African American Culture. New York: Basic Civitas.
Knopp, Sarah. 2005. "Separate and Unequal: Reviewing Jonathan Kozol's 'Shame of the Nation'." ZNet, October 16. On-line at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=30&itemID=8943.
Korstad, Robert Rogers. 2003. Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth Century South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Kotlowitz, Alex. 1998. The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, A Death, and America's Dilemma. New York: Anchor Books.
Kozol, Jonathan.
--- 1991. Savage Inequalities. NY: Crown Publishers.
--- 2001. Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope. New York: HarperCollins.
--- 2005. "Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid." Harper's Magazine, Vol. 311, No. 1864, September. On-line at www.mindfully.org/Reform/2005/American-Apartheid-Education1sep05.htm.
--- 2005. The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America. New York: Three Rivers Press.
Learner, Gerda, ed. 1972. Black Women in White America: A Documentary History. New York: Vintage.
Lewis, David Levering.
--- 1996. W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919. New York: Henry Holt.
--- 2000. W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963. New York: Henry Holt.
--- 2006. "The Mission: Martin Luther King's Final Chapter" [review of Taylor Branch's At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68]. The New Yorker, January 23 and 30. On-line at www.newyorker.com/critics/books/articles/060123crbo_books.
Liebow, Elliot. 1967. Tally’s Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men. Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company.
Litwack, Leon F. 1980. Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery. New York: Vintage.
Lumpkin, Beatrice. 1999. “Always Bring a Crowd!” The Story of Frank Lumpkin, Steelworker. New York: International Publishers.
MacLeod, Jay. 1987/1995. Ain’t No Makin’ It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood, 2nd Ed. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Massey, Douglas S. and Nancy A. Denton. 1993. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press.
Mathis, Deborah. 2002. Yet a Stranger: Why Black Americans Still Don't Feel at Home. New York: Warner.
McAdam, Doug. 1982. Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
Mathis, Deborah. 2005. Yet a Stranger: Why Black Americans Still Don't Feel at Home. New York: Warner Books.
Meier, August and Elliott Rudwick. 1979. Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press/
Miller, Jerome G. 1996. Search and Destroy: African-American Males in the Criminal Justice System. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Morris, Aldon D. 1984. The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change. New York: The Free Press.
Mullen, Bill V. 1999. Popular Fronts: Chicago and African-American Cultural Politics, 1935-46. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
Nadel, Martha Jane. 2004. Enter the New Negroes: Images of Race in American Culture. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press.
Needleman, Ruth. 2003. Black Freedom Fighters in Steel: The Struggle for Democratic Unionism. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
Nelson, Bruce.
--- 1996. “Class, Race and Democracy in the CIO: The ‘New’ Labor History Meets the ‘Wages of Whiteness.” International Review of Social History, Vol. 41, Part III, December: 351-374.
--- 1997. “’CIO Meant One Thing for the White and Another Thing for Us’: Steelworkers and Civil Rights, 1936-1974” in Robert H. Zieger, ed., Southern Labor in Transition, 1940-1995. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press: 113-145.
--- 2001. Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Oliver, Melvin L. and Thomas M. Shapiro. 2006. Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality, 2nd Ed. New York and London: Routledge.
Raines, Howell. 1977. My Soul is Rested: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement in the Deep South. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Reed, Adolph L., Jr. 1997. W.E.B. DuBois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the Color Line. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Reed, Ishmael. 2003. Another Day at the Front: Dispatches from the Race War. New York: Basic Books.
Rhomberg, Chris. 2004. No There There: Race, Class, and Political Community in Oakland. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Roberts, Dorothy. 1997. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. New York: Pantheon Books.
Robinson, Randall.
--- 2000. The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks. New York: Plume Penguin Group.
--- 2002. The Reckoning: What Blacks Owe to Each Other. New York: Penguin Putnam.
Royster, Deirdre A. 2003. Race and the Invisible Hand: How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
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-- ARAB-AMERICANS
Kayyali, Randa A. 2006. The Arab Americans. Westwood, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group.
--- CHINESE-AMERICANS
Chang, Iris. 2004. The Chinese in America. London: Penguin.
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Barkan, Elliott Robert. 2000. A Nation of Peoples: Exile Ideology in the Cuban American Community. Westport, CT: Greenwood.
-- IRISH-AMERICANS
Ignatiev, Noel. 1995. How the Irish Became White. New York and London: Routledge.
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-- JAPANESE-AMERICANS
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-- LATINOS (as a group)
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The material gathered here reflect my long-time interest in this subject, which revolves around the issue of income inequality, and what can be done about it. There are sections on general social stratification issues, Poverty Research, and I have restructured this section for a separate section on the US Economy. New, EXTREMELY IMPORTANT ARTICLE BY CHALMERS JOHNSON: "Going Bankrupt."
FEBRUARY 2007 ANALYSIS OF THE CHANGING ECONOMIC SYSTEM
AND ITS AFFECTS ON US WORKERS:
Kim Scipes, "Neo-Liberal Economic Policies in the United States: The Impact on American Workers." Z Net, February 2, 2007. On-line at www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/2139. Best read while listening to James McMurtry's "Can't Make It Here Any More" at http://www.soldiersofsolidarity.com/files/relatednewsandreports07/cantmakeithereanymore2507.html.
see also
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Wypijewski, Joann. 2008. "Postcards from Ohio." The Nation, March 17. On-line at www.thenation.com/doc/20080317/wypijewski. She takes a look around Ohio, just before the Democratic Primary and argues "Election '08 enlists white men in identity politics for the first time. What will lead them, their skin or their dick?" Talks about economic situation for especially unionized manufacturing workers.
Zweig, Michael. 2008. "The War and the Working Class." The Nation, March 31. On-line at www.thenation.com/doc/20080331/zweig.
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--- 2007. "The Double Whammy: Deindustrialization and Home Foreclosures." The Black Commentator, February 26. On-line at www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=30&itemID=12205.
Bluestone, Barry and Bennett Harrison.
--- 1982. The Deindustrialization of America: Plant Closings, Community Abandonment, and the Dismantling of Basic Industry. New York: Basic Books.
--- 2000. Growing Prosperity: The Battle for Growth with Equity in the 21st Century. Boston and New York: Houghton and Mifflin.
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Clawson, Dan. 2003. The Next Upsurge: Labor and the New Social Movements. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
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Damon, Andre.
--- "The Social Toll of the US Home Mortgage Crisis-Part I." August 31. On-line at www.countercurrents.org/damon310807.htm.
--- "The Social Toll of the US Home Mortgage Crisis-Part II." September 1. On-line at www.countercurrents.org/damon010907.htm.
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Gilligan, J. 1996. Reflections on a National Epidemic: Violence. New York: Vintage.
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Hoer, John P. 1988. And the Wolf Finally Came: The Decline of the American Steel Industry. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
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