Thread by @celinegounder

1/ My mom asked me this weekend for some reading recommendations.
My first recommendation:
@DukeSociology's Eduardo Bonilla-Silva: "Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America"

2/ But here are many others... by no means exhaustive. In alphabetical order by last name. Please add more to the list!
Michelle Alexander @mymichellle: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness @thenewjimcrow

3/
@EmoryUniversity's Carol Anderson @ProfCAnderson: White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

Carol Anderson: One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy

@Yale's @ElijaAnderson: The Cosmopolitan Canopy

Elijah Anderson: The White Space

4/
@Cornell's Edward E. Baptist @Ed_Baptist: The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

@UCILaw's Mehrsa Baradaran @MehrsaBaradaran: The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

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@HarvardU's Derrick A. Bell: And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice

@HarvardU's @Sven_Beckert & @BrownUniversity's @SethRockman: Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development

6/
@HarvardU's Derrick Bell & Michelle Alexander @mymichellle: Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism

Bill Bishop: The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded American is Tearing Us Apart

7/
Douglas A. Blackmon @douglasblackmon: Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

Jeff Chang @zentronix: We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation

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Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between the World and Me

Patrisse Khan-Cullors @OsopePatrisse: When They Call You a Terrorist: A #BlackLivesMatter #BLM Memoir

Angela Y. Davis: Women, Race, & Class

@UALawSchool's Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic: Critical Race Theory

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@UW's Robin J. DiAngelo: White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Reni Eddo-Lodge @renireni: Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

10/
@stonybrooku's Crystal Marie Fleming @alwaystheself: How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide

@LSU's Nancy Isenberg @andyandnancy: White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

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@UCBerkeley's @SaruJayaraman: Forked: A New Standard for American Dining

@AmericanU's Ibram X. Kendi @DrIbram: How to Be an Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi: Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

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@HarvardUniv's Jill Lepore: These Truths: A History of the United States

Jill Lepore: This America: The Case for the Nation

@NatalieYMoore: The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation

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Daniel Okrent @okrent: The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America

@IjeomaOluo: So You Want to Talk About Race

@Yale's Claudia Rankine: Citizen: An American Lyric

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@PennLaw's @DorothyERoberts: Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

@BerkeleyLaw's Richard Rothstein: The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

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@HarvardUniv Robert J. Sampson: Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect

@Princeton's @KeeangaYamahtta Taylor: Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

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@IsabelWilkerson: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Albert Woodfox: Solitary

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Here are two more:

@TempleUniv's David Barton Smith: The Power to Heal: Civil Rights, Medicare and the Struggle to Transform America’s Health System

@ConnCollege's @JimDowns1: Sick From Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction