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Booklist by Topic
The following materials relate to contemporary forms of racial prejudice and discrimination. To learn more about an item or to purchase a book, please click on its title. As an Amazon Associate, up to 15% of all book purchases made through Amazon.com (by clicking a link below and ordering the book online) will go toward supporting this website.
General Books on Racism
- Bliss, C. (2012). Race Decoded: The Genomic Fight for Social Justice. Stanford University Press.
- Bonilla-Silva, E. (2022). Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America (6th ed.). Rowman & Littlefield.
- Coates, T. (2025). Between the World and Me (trade paperback ed.). One World.
- Davis, F. J. (2001). Who Is Black? One Nation’s Definition. Pennsylvania State University Press.
- DiAngelo, R. (2018). White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. Beacon Press.
- Feagin, J. R., & Ducey, K. (2025). Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations (5th ed.). Routledge.
- Graves, J. L. Jr., & Goodman, A. H. (2023). Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions. Columbia University Press.
- Halley, J., Eshleman, A., & Vijaya, R. M. (2022). Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race (2nd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield.
- Harriot, M. (2023). Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America. Dey Street Books.
- Menendian, S. (2025). Structural Racism: The Dynamics of Opportunity and Race in America. Routledge.
- Oluo, I. (2019). So You Want to Talk About Race (trade paperback ed.). Seal Press.
- Ray, V. (2023). On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care (trade paperback ed.). Random House.
- West, K. (2025). The Science of Racism: Everything You Need to Know But Probably Don’t—Yet. Abrams Press.
Racial Attitudes and Stereotypes
- Craig, B. B., Davis, P. G., & Rahko, S. E. (Eds.). (2024). Rupturing Rhetoric: The Politics of Race and Popular Culture Since Ferguson. University Press of Mississippi.
- Eberhardt, J. L. (2020). Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do. Penguin Books.
- Entman, R. M., & Rojecki, A. (2001). The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America. University of Chicago Press.
- Grimes, D. S., & Cooney, L. (2023). Through the Lens of Whiteness: Challenging Racialized Imagery in Pop Culture. Skinner House Books.
- Hughey, M. W., & González-Lesser, E. (Eds.). (2020). Racialized Media: The Design, Delivery, and Decoding of Race and Ethnicity. New York University Press.
- Kaplan, H. R. (2025). Asian Americans at the Margins: A History of Stereotyping, Discrimination and Achievement. McFarland and Company.
- Peterson, C., & Riley, E. Y., III. (2022). Racial Attitudes in America Today: One Nation, Still Divided. Routledge.
- Stangor, C., & Crandall, C. (Eds.). (2012). Stereotyping and Prejudice. Psychology Press.
- Steele, C. (2010). Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do. W.W. Norton & Company.
- Strings, S. (2019). Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia. New York University Press.
- Trepagnier, B. (2010). Silent Racism: How Well-Meaning White People Perpetuate the Racial Divide (2nd ed.). Paradigm Publishers.
Race and Criminal Justice
- Aiello, T. (Ed.). (2023). The Routledge History of Police Brutality in America. Routledge.
- Alexander, M. (2020). The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (rev. ed.). The New Press.
- Bell, D. A., Harris, C. I., Hansford, J., Akbar, A. A., Ellis, A., & McFarlane, A. G. (2023). Race, Racism and American Law: Leading Cases and Materials. Aspen Publishers.
- Bright, S. B., & Kwak, J. (2023). The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts. The New Press.
- Butler, P. (2018). Chokehold: Policing Black Men. The New Press.
- Carbado, D. W., Crenshaw, K. W., Desautels-Stein, J., & Thomas, C. (2025). Race, Racism, and International Law. Stanford University Press.
- Clair, M. (2022). Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court. Princeton University Press.
- Deardorff, M. D. (2025). Race and the Law in the United States. Cambridge University Press.
- DeWeaver, E. S. (2025). Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future. The New Press.
- Forman, J., Jr. (2018). Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
- Hattery, A. J., & Smith, E. (2021). Policing Black Bodies: How Black Lives Are Surveilled and How to Work for Change (updated ed.). Rowman & Littlefield.
- Henning, K. (2023). The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth. Vintage Books.
- Hinton, E. (2021). America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s. Liveright Publishing Corporation.
- Horace, M., & Harris, R. (2019). The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America’s Law Enforcement (trade paperback ed.). Hachette Books.
- Nellis, A. (2021, October 13). The Color of Justice: Racial and Ethnic Disparity in State Prisons. The Sentencing Project.
- Pettit, R. (2012). Invisible Men: Mass Incarceration and the Myth of Black Progress. Russell Sage Foundation.
- Ritchie, A. (2017). Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color. Beacon Press.
- Russell-Brown, K. (2021). The Color of Crime: Racial Hoaxes, White Crime, Media Messages, Police Violence, and Other Race-Based Harms (3rd ed.). New York University Press.
- Schoenfeld, H. (2018). Building the Prison State: Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration. University of Chicago Press.
- Schwartz, J. (2023). Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable. Viking.
- Stevenson, B. (2024). Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (trade paperback ed.). One World.
- Vitale, A. S. (2021). The End of Policing (updated ed.). Verso.
Immigration
- Arnold, K. R. (Ed.). (2011). Anti-Immigration in the United States: An Historical Encyclopedia. Greenwood Press.
- Bartholomew, R. E., & Reumschuessel, A. E. (2018). American Intolerance: Our Dark History of Demonizing Immigrants. Prometheus Books.
- Blitzer, J. (2024). Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis. Penguin Books.
- Choi, D. D., Poertner, M., & Sambanis, N. (2022). Native Bias: Overcoming Discrimination Against Immigrants. Princeton University Press.
- Gómez, L. E. (2022). Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism (paperback ed.). The New Press.
- Goodman, A. (2021). The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants. Princeton University Press.
- Jones, R. (2021). White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall. Beacon Press.
- Moghaddam, F. M., & Hendricks, M. J. (Eds.). (2022). Contemporary Immigration: Psychological Perspectives to Address Challenges and Inform Solutions. American Psychological Association.
- Minian, A. R. (2024). In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States. Viking.
- Ngai, M. M. (2014). Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (new paperback ed.). Princeton University Press.
- Perry, L. (2024). Indigenous Dispossession, Anti-Immigration, and the Public Pedagogy of U.S. Empire. The Ohio State University Press.
- Rosenberg, A. S. (2022). Undesirable Immigrants: Why Racism Persists in International Migration. Princeton University Press.
- Roth, W. (2012). Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race. Stanford University Press.
- Walia, H. (2021). Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism. Haymarket Books.
- Watson, T., & Thompson, K. (2021). The Border Within: The Economics of Immigration in an Age of Fear. The University of Chicago Press.
- Vega, I. I. (2025). Bordering on Indifference: Immigration Agents Negotiating Race and Morality. Princeton University Press.
Segregation
- Breyer, S. (2022). Breaking the Promise of Brown: The Resegregation of America’s Schools. Brookings Institution Press.
- Cashin, S. (2021). White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality. Beacon Press.
- Di Carlo, M., & Baker, B. D. (2026). Segregation and School Funding: How States Reinforce Inequality and What to Do About It. Harvard Education Press.
- Massey, D. S., & Denton, N. (1994). American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Harvard University Press.
- Nightingale, C. H. (2012). Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities. University of Chicago Press.
- Rooks, N. (2020). Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American Education. The New Press.
- Rothstein, R. (2018). The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (paperback ed.). Liveright Publishing Corporation.
- Slater, G. (2021). Freedom to Discriminate: How Realtors Conspired to Segregate Housing and Divide America. Heyday.
- Taylor, K-Y. (2019). Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership. University of North Carolina Press.
- Trounstine, J. (2018). Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities. Cambridge University Press.
Affirmative Action
- Bollinger, L. C., & Stone, G. R. (2023). A Legacy of Discrimination: The Essential Constitutionality of Affirmative Action. Oxford University Press.
- Byrd, W. C. (2021). Behind the Diversity Numbers: Achieving Racial Equity on Campus. Harvard Education Press.
- Driver, J. (2025). The Fall of Affirmative Action: Race, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Higher Education. Columbia Global Reports.
- Katznelson, I. (2005). When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America. W. W. Norton.
- Kahlenberg, R. D. (2025). Class Matters: The Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce Inequality, and Build Real Diversity at America’s Colleges. PublicAffairs.
- Luke, D. J. (2024). Affirmative Action and Black Student Success: The Pursuit of a “Critical Mass” at Historically White Universities. Routledge.
- Orfield, G. (2024). The Walls Around Opportunity: The Failure of Colorblind Policy for Higher Education. Princeton University Press.
- Park, J. J. (2026). Race, Class, and Affirmative Action: College Admissions in a New Era. Harvard Education Press.
- Urofsky, M. I. (2020). The Affirmative Action Puzzle: A Living History From Reconstruction to Today. Pantheon Books.
Anti-Racism and Multiculturalism
- Carter, E. R. (2026). The Bias Gap: How to Detect, Interrupt, and Unlearn Bias in Everyday Life. Little, Brown Spark.
- Germán, L. (2024). The Antiracist Teacher: Reading Instruction Workbook. Multicultural Classroom Inc.
- Hawthorne, B. (2022). Raising Antiracist Children: A Practical Parenting Guide. Simon Element.
- Kendi, I. X. (2023). How to Be an Antiracist. One World.
- Kivel, P. (2017). Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice (4th rev. and updated ed.). New Society Publishers.
- Love, B. L. (2019). We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom. Beacon Press.
- McGhee, H. (2022). The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (trade paperback ed.). One World.
- Shorten, A. (2022). Multiculturalism: The Political Theory of Diversity Today. Polity Press.
- Singh, A. A. (2020). The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing (paperback ed.). New Harbinger Publications.
- Smidt, S. (2020). Creating an Anti-Racist Culture in the Early Years: An Essential Guide for Practitioners. Routledge.
- Stead, V. (Ed.). (2023). Toward Abolishing White Supremacy on Campus. Peter Lang.
- Thompson, N. (2026). Anti-Racist Practice (2nd ed.). Routledge.
- Verma, A. (2022). Anti-Racism in Higher Education: An Action Guide for Change. Policy Press.
- Warren, M. (2010). Fire in the Heart: How White Activists Embrace Racial Justice. Oxford University Press.
- Wise, T. (2011). White Like Me: Reflections on Race From a Privileged Son (rev. and updated ed.). Soft Skull Press.
- Yoshino, K., & Glasgow, D. (2026). How Equality Wins: A New Vision for an Inclusive America. Simon Element / Simon Acumen Publishers.
Race, Poverty, and Welfare
- Baradaran, M. (2019). The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap (paperback ed.). Harvard University Press.
- Barber, W. J., II., with Wilson-Hartgrove, J. (2022). White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy. Liveright Publishing Corporation.
- Brown, D. A. (2022). The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—and How We Can Fix It (trade paperback ed.). Crown.
- Desmond, M. (2024). Poverty, by America (trade paperback ed.). Crown.
- hooks, b. (2000). Where We Stand: Class Matters. Routledge.
- Lareau, A. (2011). Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life (2nd ed.). University of California Press.
- Oliver, M. L., & Shapiro, T. M. (2006). Black Wealth, White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality (2nd ed.). Routledge.
- Roberts, D. (2023). Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (trade paperback ed.). Basic Books.
- Shapiro, T. M. (2005). The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality. Oxford University Press.
- Whitesell, A. M. (2024). Fifteen Cents on the Dollar: How Americans Made the Black-White Wealth Gap. Harper.
Race and Racism in Health Care
- Blackstock, U. (2025). Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons With Racism in Medicine. Penguin Books.
- Graves, J. L., Jr. (2025). Why Black People Die Sooner: What Medicine Gets Wrong About Race and How to Fix It. Columbia University Press.
- Hoberman, J. (2012). Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism. University of California Press.
- Liverpool, L. (2025). Systemic: How Racism Harms Health—and What We Can Do About It. Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Marshall, A., with Palokoff, K. (2023). Dismissed: Tackling the Biases That Undermine Our Health Care. Citadel Press.
- Matthew, D. B. (2024). Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America (paperback ed.). New York University Press.
- Marya, R., & Patel, R. (2022). Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice (paperback ed.). Picador.
- Mojola, S. A. (2025). Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol. University of California Press.
- Rainford, M. (2023). Pregnant While Black: Advancing Justice for Maternal Health in America: Advancing Justice for Maternal Health in America. Broadleaf Books.
- Smedley, B. D., Stith, A. Y., &. Nelson, A.R. (Eds.). (2002). Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. National Academy Press.
- Thomas, M., Henderson, L., & Horton, H. D. (Eds.). (2023). Race, Ethnicity, and the COVID-19 Pandemic. University of Cincinnati Press.
- Villarosa, L. (2023). Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on Health in America. Anchor Books.
- Williams, B. H. (2023). The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal. Broadleaf Books.
U.S. Slavery Reparations
- Araujo, A. L. (2024). Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History (2nd ed.). Bloomsbury Academic.
- Brown, D. A. (2026). Getting to Reparations: How Building a Different America Requires a Reckoning With Our Past. Crown Publishing.
- Darity, W. A., Jr., & Mullen, A. K. (2020). From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century. University of North Carolina Press.
- Darity, W. A., Jr., Mullen, A. K., & Hubbard, L. (Eds.). (2023). Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice. University of California Press.
- Montero, D. (2024). The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations. Legacy Lit.
- Robinson, R. N. (2001). The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks. Plume.
- Schwarz, K. (2022). Reparations for Slavery in International Law: Transatlantic Enslavement, the Maangamizi, and the Making of International Law. Oxford University Press.
- TáÃwò, O. O. (2025). Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism. Haymarket Books.
- Watkins, M. (2025). White Work and Reparative Genealogy: Reckoning With Ancestral Debt As a Path to Racial Reparations. Palgrave Macmillan.
Modern-Day Slavery and Human Trafficking
- Bales, K. (2016). Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World. Spiegel & Grau.
- Bales, K., & Soodalter, R. (2023). The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today (2nd ed.). University of California Press.
- Batstone, D. (2010). Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade–and How We Can Fight It (rev. ed.). HarperOne.
- Burke, M. C. (Ed.). (2022). Human Trafficking: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (3rd. ed.). Routledge.
- Kara, S. (2023). Modern Slavery: A Global Perspective. Columbia University Press.
- LeBaron, G., Pliley, J. R., & Blight, D. W. (Eds.). (2021). Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking: History and Contemporary Policy. Cambridge University Press.
- Lederer, L. J. (2026). Human Trafficking: Examining the Facts. Bloomsbury Academic.
- Peterka-Benton, D., & Bowman, E. (Eds.). (2025). Human Trafficking and Disabilities. Routledge.
- Stickle, W., Hickman, S., & White, C. (2020). Human Trafficking: A Comprehensive Exploration of Modern Day Slavery. Sage Publications.
- Transchel, K. (2025). The New Slavery: Accounts of Human Trafficking in Eastern Europe. McFarland.
Other Contemporary Issues
- Anderson, C. (2018). One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy. Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Anderson, C. (2017). White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide. Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Asim, J. (2007). The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t, and Why. Houghton Mifflin.
- Baradaran, M. (2026). The Racial Wealth Gap: A Brief History. W. W. Norton & Company.
- Charles, J. S. (2020). That Middle World: Race, Performance, and the Politics of Passing. University of North Carolina Press.
- Daniels, G. R. (2020). Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America. New York University Press.
- Fuller, B. R. (2025). Being Black in America’s Schools: A Student-Educator-Reformer’s Call for Change. Dafina.
- Khan-Cullors, P., & bandele, a. (2020). When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir. St. Martin’s Griffin.
- Noble, S. U. (2018). Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. New York University Press.
- Tatum, B. D. (2017). Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race (rev. and updated ed.). Basic Books.
- Williams, J. (2021). Climate Change Is Racist: Race, Privilege and the Struggle for Climate Justice. Icon Books.
Scholarly Journals
African and African-American Issues
Asian and Asian-American Issues
Hispanic/Latino Issues
Ethnicity and Race
Other Topics
Magazines and E-Zines
Race-Specific Magazines and E-Zines
- African Voices Magazine (quarterly literary publication)
- Brown Girl Magazine (on South Asian stories and changemakers)
- East Wind (e-zine on political and cultural issues of Asian Pacific Americans)
- EBONY Magazine (devoted to “moving Black forward”)
- Hammer & Hope (magazine of Black politics and culture)
- Transition: Magazine of Africa and the Diaspora (Harvard University)
Other Magazines and E-Zines
- ColorLines Magazine (on race, culture, and organizing)
- Our Human Family Weekly (e-zine promoting racial equity, allyship, and inclusion)
- Rethinking Schools (promoting equity and racial justice in the classroom)
- SCLC Magazine (civil rights magazine published since 1971)
- The Crisis (NAACP civil rights magazine founded by W.E.B. Du Bois)
- The Emancipator (exploring solutions to racial inequality)
- The Multiracial Activist (covers social and civil liberty related to multiracial individuals)
Other Publications
Newsletters and News Services
- Association for Asian-American Studies Newsletter (free online)
- News Clips (Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law)
- Hispanic Online Newsletter (free e-newsletter)
- IMDiversity (free monthly e-newsletter)
- National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights Newsletter (free)
- Poverty & Race Research Action Council (e-news and updates)
- Psych Discourse (Association of Black Psychologists newsletter)
- RainbowPUSH Coalition Newsletter (available online)
Special Reports on Segregation
- Lindsay, R., Taylor, J., Ibrahim, M., Kye, P., Tegeler, P., & Maxwell, N. (2022, July 14). Residential Segregation and Racial Discrimination in Housing: Continuing Harms for Communities of Color in the United States. Poverty & Race Research Action Council, National Housing Law Project, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
- Menendian, S., Gambhir, S., & Gailes, A. (2025, October 1). The Roots of Structural Racism Project: Twenty-First Century Racial Residential Segregation in the United States. Othering & Belonging Institute, UC Berkeley.
- Reardon, S. F., Weathers, E. S., Fahle, E. M., Jang, H., & Kalogrides, D. (2022, August). Is separate still unequal? New evidence on school segregation (CEPA Working Paper No.19-06). Stanford Center for Educational Policy Analysis.
- Rusk, D. (2001, October). The “Segregation Tax”: The Cost of Racial Segregation to Black Homeowners. Brookings Institution.
- Solomon, D., Maxwell, C., & Castro, A. (2019, August 7). Systemic Inequality: Displacement, Exclusion, and Segregation. How American’s Housing System Undermines Wealth Building in Communities of Color. Center for American Progress.
Special Reports on Racial Profiling
- Essex, A., & Hartman, M. (2022). Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Criminal Justice System. National Conference of State Legislatures.
- Ghandnoosh, N. (2023, November 2). One in Five: Disparities in Crime and Policing. The Sentencing Project.
- Murdza, K., & Ewing, W. (2021, February 10). The Legacy of Racism Within the U.S. Border Patrol. American Immigration Council.
- Panduranga, H, & Patel, F. (2022, September 15). Stronger Rules Against Bias. Brennan Center For Justice.
- U.S. Domestic Human Rights Program. (2004). Threat and Humiliation: Racial Profiling, Domestic Security, and Human Rights in the United States. Amnesty International.
- U.S. General Accounting Office. (2000, March). Racial Profiling: Limited Data Available on Motorist Stops (report GGD-00-41).
Other Special Reports
- ASA Task Force on the State of the Art in Sociological Scholarship on Race. (2023, January). Race and Racism in the United States: A Sociological Guide for the Public. American Sociological Association.
- Childers, C. (2023, October 18). Rooted in racism and economic exploitation: The failed Southern economic development model. Economic Policy Institute.
- National Urban League. (2025). 2025 State of Black America: State of Emergency: Democracy, Civil Rights & Progress Under Attack (annual report).
- Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union. (2022, August). Racial Discrimination in the United States.
- Ndugga, N., Hill, L., Pillai, D., & Artiga, S. (2025, October 8). Race, Inequality, and Health. Kaiser Family Foundation.
- Pew Research Center. (2007, November 13). Blacks See Growing Values Gap Between Poor and Middle Class: Optimism About Black Progress Declines.
- White House. (2024, July 3). Racial Discrimination in Contemporary America. (Issue Brief, Council of Economic Advisers).
Bibliographies, Databases, and Compendiums
- Annotated Bibliography of Psychology and Racism (APA)
- Public Opinion Data on Race Relations (The Gallup Poll)
- ModelMinority (research articles, commentaries, and more)
- U.S. GAO Reports (choose “Civil Rights” under Topic menu)
- U.S. Government Online Bookstore (browse “Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity”)
Articles and Essays:
- DeAngelis R. T. (2024). Systemic racism in police killings: New evidence from the Mapping Police Violence Database, 2013-2021. Race and Justice, 14(3), 413-422.
- Graves, A., Jr., Goodman, A., Farina, S., & Moses, Y. (2025). U.S. disregards scientific consensus on race. Science, 389(6757), 242.
- Ventura, I. M., & Flores, R. D. (2025). The “rise” of multiracials? Examining the growth in multiracial identification in the 2020 U.S. Census. Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 11(1) 44-64.
Videos
Revisiting An Experiment on Race
This clip is a Good Morning America segment replicating a famous study from the 1940s by Kenneth and Mamie Clark in which Black children expressed a preference for White dolls over Black dolls. The original study helped convince the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education that separate was unequal. This video shows that some things have changed since then, but other things haven’t.
Is it possible that virtually all of us have a hidden racial bias, hidden even from ourselves? Dateline NBC explores this question by having studio audience members, including civil rights activists, take the Implicit Association Test (IAT). The intriguing results are discussed by IAT developers Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald.
Barack Obama: ‘A More Perfect Union’ (Full Speech)
This clip shows the full March 18, 2008, Philadelphia speech that Barack Obama gave on the topic of race and racism. Although this now-famous speech specifically responded to racially inflammatory comments made by Mr. Obama’s pastor, it also addressed larger issues of prejudice, privilege, race relations, and inequality.
This segment of Pennsylvania Inside Out interviews Professor of Economics William Darity from the University of North Carolina. Professor Darity discusses the controversial question of whether the U.S. government should apologize and make reparations for slavery, Jim Crow, and more recent cases of discrimination.
Eye To Eye With Katie Couric: Human Trafficking
This clips presents an interview with David Batstone, author of Not For Sale, about modern-day slavery in the United States and around the world. An estimated 200,000 people currently live in bondage in the U.S., and in this video Batstone describes the practice of human trafficking as well as effective steps that citizens can take to counter it.
Additional Resources and Searchable Databases
For other films, clips, and reviews, please see:
- Docuseek2 Film and Video Finder
- Video Librarian Online
- MediaRights: Media That Matters
- Internet Movie Database
- Rotten Tomatoes
Links
General Resources
Statements on Race and Racism
- Statement on Racism (American Psychological Association Division 45)
- Unified Antiracism Statement (National Association of School Psychologists)
- Statement on “Race” (American Anthropological Association)
- Statement on Race & Racism (American Association of Biological Anthropologists)
- Statement on Racism (Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK)
- Statement on Race (Linguistic Society of America)
- Declaration on Race and Racial Prejudice (UNESCO)
- Statement on Racism, Bias, and Intolerance (Association for Psychological Science)
- Apology to People of Color (American Psychological Association)
- Apology to Black, Indigenous and People of Color (American Psychiatric Association)
Anti-Racism Groups and Initiatives
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (founded in 1909)
- European Network Against Racism (working to end structural racism across Europe
- European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance (human rights body)
- Fight Racism (information and resources from the United Nations)
- UN Anti-Racism Coalition (pushing for change at the United Nations)
- Race Forward (building collective power for racial equity)
- Racial Equity Tools (tools, research, tips, and curricula for racial justice)
- AFP Anti-Racism Initiative (embedding anti-racism in the fundraising sector)
- Racism. It Stops With Me. (legacy Australian campaign)
- Diversity Resources and Programs (SPN Psychology Career Center)
- SPN Mentorship Program (for psychology students from underrepresented groups)
Specific Targets of Racial Prejudice
African and African-American Issues
- National Museum of African American History & Culture (Smithsonian Institution)
- African Union (promoting solidarity among African nations)
- Hutchins Center for African and African American Research (Harvard University)
- Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (scholarly society)
- Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (advancing the global Black community)
- African-American Odyssey (U.S. Library of Congress resources)
- BlackPast.org (reference center for African and African-American history)
- Project Change (rebuilding lives after war and famine in Africa and beyond)
- Color of Change (championing Black lives and justice)
Hispanic/Latino Issues
- League of United Latin American Citizens (founded in 1929)
- UnidosUS (research, policy analysis, and advocacy organization)
- Latino Policy & Politics Institute (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (for workers and their families)
- United Farm Workers of America (working for a safe and just food supply)
- Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (civil rights group)
- Mexico Web (comprehensive web directory)
Asian and Asian-American Issues
- Asian Americans Advancing Justice (civil rights group)
- Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund (civil rights group)
- Association for Asian American Studies (advancing research and teaching)
- A Safe Haven for Asians and Asian Americans (anti-bias resources)
- Asian Pacific Political Caucus (political scientists and activists)
- UCLA Asian American Studies Center (a leading research center)
Arab and Arab-American Issues
- Anti-Arab Racism (overview and resources from Wikipedia)
- American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (civil rights group)
- ADC Research Institute (supports educational and research initiatives)
- Arab American Institute (national civil rights advocacy organization)
- Council on American-Islamic Relations (seeks justice and understanding)
- Islamophobia (from the Othering & Belonging Institute, UC Berkeley)
- Articles About Islamophobia (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting)
- Muslim Public Affairs Council (policy and advocacy organization)
- Arab America (national media organization with educational resources)
Native American Issues
- See links on Genocide in America
Multiracial and Mixed Race Resources
- Multiracial People (global and historical overview from Wikipedia)
- Multiracial Americans (history, demographics, examples, and more from Wikipedia)
- The Multiracial Activist (social and civil liberty e-zine and resource hub)
- Mixed Race Studies (scholarly perspectives on mixed-race experiences)
- Critical Mixed Race Studies (addressing local and global racial injustices)
- Mixed in America (community support for multiracial youth and adults)
Diversity and Multiculturalism
- IMDiversity (extensive career and and searchable job database)
- DiversityWorking.com (large website for DEI jobs and diverse talent)
- American Association for Access, Equity, & Diversity (professional association)
- Media Diversity Institute (promoting accurate coverage of diversity issues)
- Multiculturalism and Ethnic Studies Collections (Harvard University)
- Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence (University of Hawai’i)
- Diversity and Inclusion (SPSP initiatives and resources)
Civil Rights
U.S. Government Sites on Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Division (U.S. Department of Justice)
- Office for Civil Rights (U.S. Department of Education)
- Office of Civil Rights (U.S. Department of State)
- U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (national clearinghouse)
- U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (enforcement)
- Data on Equal Access to Education (U.S. Department of Education)
Other Civil Rights Websites
- Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (justice network)
- The Civil Rights Project (bridging ideas and action; based at UCLA)
- NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund (legal group fighting for racial justice)
- Southern Poverty Law Center (promoting justice in the U.S. South and beyond)
- Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (legal advocacy group)
- Advancement Project (multiracial civil rights organization)
- National Rainbow/PUSH Coalition (human and civil rights organization)
Contemporary Racial Issues and Controversies
Immigration
- American Immigration Council (protecting immigrants, defending democracy)
- Immigrant Legal Resource Center (building a democracy that values diversity)
- Immigration Advocates Network (supporting immigrants and their allies)
- Immigration and Refugees (resources from the American Psychological Association)
- Immigration Justice Campaign (offers free legal services for immigrants)
- National Immigration Forum (advancing compassionate immigration policies)
- National Immigration Law Center (assisting low-income immigrants)
- National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (human rights alliance)
- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (government website)
Racial Segregation
- Racial Segregation (Wikipedia overview)
- Racial Segregation Research (Othering & Belonging Institute, UC Berkeley)
- The Segregation Explorer (interactive map from Stanford University)
- Causes and Consequences of Separate and Unequal Neighborhoods (Urban Institute)
- School Segregation Research Factsheet (Scholars Strategy Network)
- Segregation (primary source materials from the U.S. Library of Congress)
- Race (data, analyses, and visualizations from the U.S. Census Bureau)
- Can You Avoid Segregation? (interactive demonstration)
Criminal Justice
- Equal Justice Initiative (challenging racial and economic injustice)
- The Sentencing Project (looks at racial disparities in criminal justice)
- Racial Justice NOW! (dismantling school-to-prison pipeline)
- What to Do If You’re Stopped by the Police (know your rights)
- Criminal Justice Fact Sheet (compiled by the NAACP)
- Racial Justice (Prison Policy Initiative reports and other resources)
Racial Disparities in Health Care
- Office of Minority Health Resource Center (U.S. government website)
- Office of Minority Health (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (National Institutes of Health)
- AAMC Center for Health Justice (Association of American Medical Colleges)
- Health Equity and Race (American Medical Association)
- Rise to Health Equity Coalition (committed to health equity and justice)
- National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports (AHRQ annual reports)
- Racial Equity and Health Policy (resources from the Kaiser Family Foundation)
Other Race-Related Sites
- iAbolish: Slavery Isn’t History (working to abolish modern-day slavery)
- Center for the Study of White American Culture (multiracial anti-racist organization)
- Showing Up for Racial Justice (network of White allies for racial justice)
- Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights (seeking long-term structural change)
- Embracing Equity (transforming mindsets and practices to build equity)
- Embrace Race (raising a generation thoughtful, informed, and brave about race)