Racism in America : a reader

297 Pages·2020·7.908 MB·English

by  Annette Gordon-Reed

RACISM IN AMERI C A
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Racism in Ameri c a
A Reader
foreword by
ANNETTE GORDON- REED
Cambridge, Mas sa chu setts, and London, England
Copyright © 2020 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
All rights reserved
Cover design and lettering by Cymone Wilder.
ISBN 978-0-674-25166-3 (EPUB)
ISBN 978-0-674-25167-0 (MOBI)
ISBN 978-0-674-25165-6 (PDF)
The Credits constitute an extension of the copyright page.
contents
List of Contributors ix
A Note on Language xv
Foreword by Annette Gordon-R eed xvii
Excerpts
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992) 1
toni morrison
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (2000) 10
walter johnson
Viol ence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the
Early American West (2006) 22
ned blackhawk
Southern Horrors: W omen and the Politics of Rape
and Lynching (2009) 31
crystal n. feimster
Freedom Strug gles: African Americans and World War I (2009) 43
adriane lentz-s mith
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making
of Modern Urban Amer ic a (2010) 56
khalil gibran muhammad
Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care (2011) 70
augustus a. white iii, md
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vi Contents
Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian
Amer i ca (2013) 78
vivek bald
Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence
of Identity (2014) 89
kwame anthony appiah
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making
of Mass Incarceration in Amer i ca (2016) 98
elizabeth hinton
Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform (2016) 107
tommie shelby
Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the
Nineteenth Century (2017) 117
tera w. hunter
The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation (2017) 130
stuart hall
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap (2017) 142
mehrsa baradaran
The Chinese Must Go: Vio lence, Exclusion, and the Making of the
Alien in Amer i ca (2018) 153
beth lew- williams
The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-M exican Viol ence
in Texas (2018) 163
monica muñoz martinez
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing
Disadvantaged Students (2019) 170
anthony abraham jack
Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White (2019) 179
william sturkey
Contents vii
Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (2020) 194
nicole r. feetwood
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man (2020) 209
joshua bennett
Notes 221
Credits 275
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contributors
Foreword
Annette Gordon- Reed is the Pulitzer Prize–w inning author of The Hemingses
of Monticello: An American Family. She is Charles Warren Professor of
American Legal History at Harvard Law School and Professor of History
at Harvard University.
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Toni Morrison (1931–2019) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Lite ra t ure, a
National Book Critics Circle Award, and a Pulitzer Prize. The author of
numerous critically acclaimed works of fction and nonfction, she was the
Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, at Princet on
University.
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
Walter Johnson is Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African
and African American Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of
River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom and, most
recently, The Broken Heart of Amer i ca: St. Louis and the Violent History of
the United States.
Vio lence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West
Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone) is Professor of History and American
Studies at Yale University. The Native American and Indigenous Studies
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