RACE AND ETHNICITY READING LIST_2012
I. Theories of Race/Ethnicity and Racism
Almaguer, Tomás. 2008. Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy
in California, with a New Preface. Berkeley: UC Press.
Bach, Les, and John Solomos. Ed. 2000. Theories of Race and Racism. New York:
Routledge.
Barth, Fredrick. 1969. “Introduction.” Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social
Organization of Cultural Difference. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.
Bonilla-Silva, E. 1997. “Rethinking Racism: Toward a Structural Interpretation.”
American Sociological Review 62 (3): 465-80.
_____. 2004. "From bi-racial to tri-racial: Towards a new system of racial stratification in
the USA" Ethnic and Racial Studies 27:931-950.
Cox, Oliver C. [1948] 1970. Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics. New
York: Doubleday.
Feagin, Joe. 1991. “The Continuing Significance of Race: Antiblack Discrimination in
Public Places.” American Sociological Review 56: 101-116.
Fields, Barbara. 1990. “Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America.”
New Left Review 181: 95-118.
Fredrickson, George M. 1988. The Arrogance of Race: Historical Perspectives on
Slavery, Racism, and Social Inequality. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University
Press.
Gans, Herbert J. 1999. “The Possibility of a New Racial Hierarchy in the Twenty-first
Century United States.” Pp. 371-390 in The Cultural Territories of Race, edited
by Michèle Lamont. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Gilroy, Paul. 2000. Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Glazer, Nathan, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. 1963. Beyond the Melting Pot. Cambridge:
MIT Press.
Gold, Steven J. 2004. “From Jim Crow to Racial Hegemony: Evolving Explanations of
Racial Hierarchy.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 26(4): 951-968.
Haney-Lopez, Ian. 2006. White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race 10th
Anniversary Edition Revised and Updated. New York: NYU Press.
Hechter, Michael. 1986. “A Rational Choice Theory and the Study of Race and Ethnic
Relations.” Pp. 264-279 in Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations, edited by John
Rex and David Mason. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Hollinger, David. 1995. Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism. New York: Basic.
Ignatiev, Noel. 1995. How the Irish Became White. New York: Routledge.
Jacobson, Matthew Frye. 1998. Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants
and the Alchemy of Race. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Kivisto, Peter, ed. 2005. Incorporating Diversity: Rethinking Assimilation in a
Multicultural Age. Paradigm Publishers.
Omi, Michael and Howard Winant. 1994. Racial formation in the United States: From
the 1960s to the 1980s. New York: Routledge.
Roediger, David. 1991. The Wages of Whiteness. New York: Verso.
Sollors, Werner, Ed. 1996. Theories of Ethnicity. New York: New York University Press.
Wacquant, Loic. 2002. “From Slavery to Mass Incarceration: Rethinking the ‘Race
Question’ in the US.” New Left Review 13: 41-60.
Wilson, William Julius. 1980. The Declining Significance of Race. 2nd Edition. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
Wimmer, Andreas, 2008. “The Making and Unmaking of Ethnic Boundaries: A Multilevel Process Theory.” American Journal of Sociology 113(4):970-1022.
II. Race, Class, Segregation, and Inequality
Anderson, Elijah. 1992. Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community.
Chicago. University of Chicago Press.
Charles, Camille Z. 2003. “The Dynamics of Racial Residential Segregation.” Annual
Review of Sociology 29: 167-207.
Drake, St. Clair and Horace R. Cayton. [1945] 1993. Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro
Life in a Northern City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Du Bois, W. E. B. [1903] 1997. The Souls of Black Folk. Edited by David W. Blight and
Robert Gooding-Williams. Boston: Bedford Books.
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Farley, Reynolds, and William H. Frey. 1994. “Changes in the Segregation of Whites
From Blacks During the 1980s - Small Steps Toward a More Integrated Society.”
American Sociological Review 59 (1): 23-45.
Iceland, John. 2009. Where We Live Now: Immigration and Race in the United States.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
Liebow, Elliot. 1967. Tally’s Corner. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.
Loury, Glenn C. 2002. The Anatomy of Racial Inequality. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press.
Massey, Douglas S. and Nancy A. Denton. 1993. American Apartheid: Segregation and
the Making of the Underclass. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Myrdal Gunnar. 1944. An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern
Democracy. New York: Harper
Oliver, Melvin, and Thomas Shapiro. 1997. Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New
Perspective on Racial Inequality. New York: Routledge.
Pattillo-McCoy, Mary. 1999. Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black
Middle Class. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Smelser, Neil, William Julius Wilson, and Faith Mitchell. 2001. America Becoming:
Racial Patterns and their Consequences. Washington, D.C.: National Academy
Press.
Stack, Carol B. 1974. All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community. New
York: Harper and Row.
Thernstrom, Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom. 1997. America in Black and White: One
Nation, Indivisible. New York: Simon & Schuster.
III. Race/Ethnicity, Employment, and Opportunity
Bean, Frank D. and Stephanie Bell-Rose, Eds. 1999. Immigration and Opportunity: Race,
Ethnicity, and Employment in the United States. New York: Russell Sage
Foundation.
Duneier, Mitchell. 1999. Sidewalk. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Glenn, Evelyn N. 1992. “From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the
Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor.” Signs 18(1): 1-43.
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Huffman, Matt L., and Philip N. Cohen. 2004. “Racial Wage Inequality: Job Segregation
and Devaluation Across U.S. Labor Markets.” American Journal of Sociology 109
(4): 902-936.
Jones, Jacqueline. 1985. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the
Family from Slavery to the Present. New York: Basic Books.
Lamont, Michele. 2000. The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of
Race, Class, and Immigration. Cambridge and New York: Harvard University
Press and Russell Sage Foundation.
Lieberson Stanley. 1980. A Piece of the Pie: Blacks and White Immigrants since 1880.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
Newman, Katherine S. 1999. No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner
City. New York: Alfred A. Knopf and Russell Sage Foundation.
Quadagno, Jill. 1994. The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on
Poverty. New York: Oxford University Press.
Pager, Devah, Bruce Western, and Bart Bonikowski. 2009. "Discrimination in a LowWage Labor Market: A Field Experiment." American Sociological Review
74:777-799.
Steinberg, Stephen. 1989. The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in America.
Boston: Beacon Press.
Waldinger, Roger, and Michael I. Lichter. 2003. How the Other Half Works: Immigration
and the Social Organization of Labor. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Wilson, William Julius. 1987. The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass,
and Public Policy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
IV. Racial/Ethnic Identification
Alba, Richard D. 1990. Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America. New
Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Brubaker, Rogers and Frederick Cooper. 2000. “Beyond ‘Identity.’” Theory and Society
29:1-47.
Cornell, Stephen and Douglas Hartmann. 1998. Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in
a Changing World. Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge Press, pp. 15-38.
Davis, F. James. 1991. Who is Black? University Park: Pennsylvania State University
Press.
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Eschbach, Karl. 1995. “The Enduring and Vanishing American Indian: American Indian
Population Growth and Intermarriage in 1980.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 18 (1):
89-108.
Gans, Herbert J. 1979. “Symbolic Ethnicity.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 2: 1-20.
Harris, David R. and Jeremiah Joseph Sim. 2002. “Who is Multiracial? Assessing the
Complexity of Lived Race.” American Sociological Review 67 (4): 614-627.
Jenkins, Richard. 2000. “Categorization: Identity, Social Process and Epistemology.”
Current Sociology 48(3): 7-25.
Kibria, N. 1998. “The Contested Meanings of ‘Asian American’: Racial Dilemmas in the
Contemporary U.S.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 21 (5): 939-58.
Lee, Jennifer, and Frank D. Bean. 2010. The Diversity Paradox: Immigration and the
Color Line in 21st Century America. New York: The Russell Sage Foundation.
Loewen, James W. 1988. The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White, 2nd edition.
Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.
Lopez, David and Yen Espiritu. 1990. “Pan-ethnicity in the United States.” Ethnic and
Racial Studies 13: 198-223.
Nagel, Joane. 1994. “Constructing Ethnicity: Creating and Recreating Ethnic Identity and
Culture.” Social Problems 41: 152-176.
Qian, Zhenchao. 1997. “Breaking the Racial Barriers: Variations in Interracial Marriage
Between 1980 and 1990.” Demography 34 (2): 263-276.
Rumbaut, Rubén. 2009. “Pigments of Our Imagination: On the Racialization and Racial
Identities of “Hispanics” and “Latinos.” Pp. 15-36 in How the U.S. Racializes
Latinos: White Hegemony and its Consequences, edited by José A. Cobas, Jorge
Duany, Joe R. Feagin. Paradigm Publishers.
Saperstein, Aliya and Andrew M. Penner. Forthcoming. “Racial fluidity and inequality in
the United States.” American Journal of Sociology.
Waters, Mary C. 1990. Ethnic Options: Choosing Identities in America. Berkeley:
University of California Press.
Waters, Mary C. 1999. Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American
Realities. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
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Xie, Yu, and Goygette, Kimberly. 1997. “The Racial Identification of Biracial Children
with One Asian Parent: Evidence from the 1990 Census.” Social Forces 76 (2):
547-570.
Yancey, William L., Eugene P. Ericksen, Richard N. Juliani. 1976. “Emergent Ethnicity:
A Review and Reformulation.” American Sociological Review 41 (3): 391-403.
V. Race/Ethnic Relations
Alba, Richard. 2005. “Bright vs. blurred boundaries: Second-generation assimilation and
exclusion in France, Germany, and the United States.” Ethnic and Racial Studies
28(1): 20-49.
Allport Gordon W. 1954. The Nature of Prejudice. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
Bergesen, Albert and Max Herman. 1998. “Immigration, Race, and Riot.” American
Sociological Review 63:39-54.
Blalock Hubert M. 1967. Toward a Theory of Minority Group Relations. New York:
Wiley.
Bogardus, Emory S. 1930. “A Race Relations Cycle.” American Journal of Sociology 35:
612-617.
Bonacich, Edna. 1972. “A Theory of Ethnic Antagonism: The Split Labor Market.”
American Sociological Review 37(5): 547-59.
Foner, Nancy and George M. Fredrickson, eds., 2004. Not Just Black and White:
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity
in the United States. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Lee, Jennifer. 2002. Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Oliver, Melvin L. and James H. Johnson, Jr. 1984. “Inter-ethnic Conflict in an Urban
Ghetto: The Case of Blacks and Latinos in Los Angeles.” Research in Social
Movements, Conflict, and Change 6: 57-94.
Olzak, Susan. 1992. The Dynamics of Ethnic Competition and Conflict. Stanford, CA:
Stanford University Press.
Portes, Alejandro and Alex Stepick. 1993. City on the Edge: The Transformation of
Miami. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Rieder, Jonathan. 1985. Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn against Liberalism.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
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Tienda, Marta and Faith Mitchell, eds. 2006. Hispanics and the Future of America.
Wash., D.C.: National Academy Press.
VI. Racial Politics
Blumer, Herbert. 1958. “Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position.” Pacific
Sociological Review 1: 3-7.
Bobo, Lawrence. 1983. “Whites’ Opposition to Busing: Symbolic Racism or Realistic
Group Conflict?” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 45: 1196-1210.
Hochschild, Jennifer. 1995. Facing Up to the American Dream. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press.
Nobles, Melissa. 2000. Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Schuman, Howard, Charlotte Steeh, Lawrence Bobo. 1985. Racial Attitudes in America:
Trends and Interpretations. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Sears, David O., Carl P. Hensler, and Leslie K. Speer. 1979. “Whites’ Opposition to
‘Busing’: Self-Interest or Symbolic Politics?” American Political Science Review
73: 369-384.
Sniderman, Paul M. and Thomas Piazza. 1993. The Scar of Race. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press.
VII. Race and Education
Ainsworth-Darnell, James W. and Douglas B. Downey. 1998. “Assessing the
Oppositional Culture Explanation for Racial/Ethnic Differences in School
Performance” American Sociological Review 63(4): 536-553.
Carter, Prudence. 2005. Keepin’ It Real: School Success Beyond Black and White.
Oxford University Press.
Lewis, Amanda. 2003. Race in the Schoolyard: Negotiating the Color Line in
Classrooms and Communities. Rutgers University Press.
Ogbu, John. 1991. “Immigrant and Involuntary Minorities in Comparative Perspective.”
Pp. 3-33 in Minority Status and Schooling: A Comparative Study of Immigrant
and Involuntary Minorities, edited by John Ogbu and Margaret Gibson. New
York: Garland.
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