55% of white Americans believe there is discrimination against white people in America today.
-NPR/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2017
Resources
Books
Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in The Age of Colorblindness. The New Press, 2012.
Anderson, Carol. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016.
Anzaldúa Gloria, and Moraga Cherríe. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Kitchen Table/Women of Color Press, 1983.
Baptist, Edward E. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. Basic Books, 2014.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me. One World, 2015.
Davis, Angela Y. Women, Race, & Class. Vintage, 1983.
DiAngelo, Robin. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. Beacon Press, 2018.
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States. Beacon Press, 2014.
Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. Yale University Press, 2020.
Kendi, Ibram X. How to Be an Antiracist. The Bodley Head, 2019.
Kendi, Ibram X. Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. The Bodley Head, 2017.
Oluo, Ijeoma. So You Want to Talk About Race. Seal Press, 2020.
Roberts, Dorothy E. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. Vintage, 1997.
Rothstein, Richard. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. Liveright, 2017.
Tatum, Beverly Daniel. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race. Basic Books, 2017.
Wise, Tim. White Like Me. Soft Skull Press, 2004.
Wu, Ellen D. The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority. Princeton University Press, 2015.
Articles
Bates, Karen Grigsby. “What's In A 'Karen'?” NPR, 15 July 2020,
www.npr.org/2020/07/14/891177904/whats-in-a-karen.
Chow, Kat. “'Model Minority' Myth Again Used As A Racial Wedge Between Asians And Blacks.” NPR, 19 Apr. 2017, www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/04/19/524571669/model-minority-myth-again-used-as-a-racial-wedge-between-asians-and-blacks.
Gjelten, Tom. “How the Immigration Act of 1965 Inadvertently Changed America.” The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2015, www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/10/immigration-act-1965/408409/.
Gonyea, Don. “Majority Of White Americans Say They Believe Whites Face Discrimination.” NPR, 24 Oct. 2017, www.npr.org/2017/10/24/559604836/majority-of-white-americans-think-theyre-discriminated-against.
Hing, Julianne. “Asian Americans Respond to Pew: We're Not Your Model Minority.” Colorlines, 21 June 2012 www.colorlines.com/Articles/Asian-Americans-Respond-Pew-Were-Not-Your-Model-Minority.
Lee, Robert G. 'The Cold War Origins of the Model Minority Myth' in Jean Yu-Wen Shen Wu, and Thomas Chen, eds, Asian American Studies Now: A Critical Reader (Rutgers University Press, 2010), 256-271.
www.pzacad.pitzer.edu/~mma/teaching/MS80/readings/lee.pdf