Thread by @DrYasmiyn

A list of required/recommended* readings on race/ism and white supremacy from my courses, as promised. Feel free to add more. #SocAF #SocTwitter #AcademicTwitter

*Diff based on access and affordability for my students, but they're all good options.

A 🧵(sorted by theme):

On Scientific Racism, Past and Present:

The Mismeasure of Man. -Stephen Gould

The Emperor’s New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium-Joseph Graves, Jr. @gravesjl55

The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea-Robert Sussman

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty / Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century-@DorothyERoberts

Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the 20th Century-Michael Yudell @PublicsHealth

The Social Life of DNA. Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome-@alondra

Thicker than Blood: How Racial Statistics Lie-@TukufuZuberi

The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference-@AnnJMorning

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present-@haw95

Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code-@ruha9

Superior: The Return of Race Science-Angela Saini

Politics of Racial Identity & Classification:

White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race-@IanHaneyLopez

Counting Americans: How the US Census Classified the Nation-@PaulSchor1

On the Historical Exclusion of Black Scholars:

The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology-Aldon Morris

The First American School of Sociology: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory-@EarlWrightII

Ida: A Sword among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign against Lynching-Paula Giddings

The Women Founders: Sociology and Social Theory 1830–1930, A Text/Reader (Chapter 5)-Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Gillian Niebrugge

"Theory on the other Side of the Veil: Reckoning with Legacies of Anti‑Blackness and Teaching in Social Theory.” in The American Sociologist-Angela Fillingham & @zra_research

Foundation of Black Radical/Feminist Traditions:

A Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the United States, 1892–1894-Ida B. Wells-Barnett

The Souls of Black Folk / Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 / Darkwater- W.E.B. Du Bois

A Voice from the South, by a Black Woman of the South-Anna Julia Cooper

The Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois: Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line-@JoseItzigsohn & @karida_leigh

Black Radical Tradition:

The Fire Next Time-James Baldwin

Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition-Cedric Robinson

The Wretched of the Earth-Franz Fanon

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America-Kwame Ture and Charles Hamilton

Black Feminist Thought:

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment /Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism-Patricia Hill Collins

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism-bell hooks

Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color-@sandylocks

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches-Audre Lorde

Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis-@zakiyaluna and @thePhDandMe

Thick: And Other Essays-@tressiemcphd

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination-Toni Morrison

The Combahee River Collective Statement-
@DemitaFrazier, Beverly Smith & @TheBarbaraSmith

The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom-@TheBarbaraSmith

Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity-@CRileySnorton

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective-@KeeangaYamahtta

Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women's Digital Resistance-@moyazb

Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul / Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl’s Love Letter to the Power of Fashion-@soulistaphd

Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction-@DrSamiSchalk

Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women / Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower- @ProfessorCrunk

The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred-@IBJIYONGI

Racialization & Colonialism:

Borderlands/la frontera: The New Mestiza-Gloria Anzaldúa

Not a “Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion-@rdunbaro

Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor-Evelyn Nakano Glenn

Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy: Denaturalizing U.S. Racisms Past and Present-
Moon-Kie Jung

The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies-@LethaboKing

Forever Suspect: Racialized Surveillance of Muslim Americans in the War on Terror-@SaherSelod

Macro-Theories:

Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s-Michael Omi & @hwinant

The Racial Contract-Charles Mills

Systemic Racism: A Theory of Oppression-@JoeFeagin

Racial Theories in the Social Science: A Systemic Racism Critique-Sean Elias & @JoeFeagin

White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era / Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States-Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

List continues here:

https://twitter.com/DrYasmiyn/status/1562592572639350784

Adding more to the list

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