Please find below work from colleagues and scholars I admire. Their work helps me better understand history and contemporary and racism and structural inequalities in the United States.
*Note, I’ve just started building this page out. Check back in a few weeks and I’ll have much more.
Race and Ethnicity in the United States
Carla Shedd
Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice (Russell Sage Foundation, 2015)
L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy
Inequality in the Promised Land: Race, Resources and Suburban Schooling
Robin DiAngelo
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People to Talk about Racism
Mary Pattillo Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class (U Chicago Press, 1999)
James Baldwin The Fire Next Time Go Tell It On The Mountain
Criminal Justice Related Research/Writings
Jeff Manza and Chris Uggen
Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy
Khalil Gibran Muhammad
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime and the Making of Modern Urban America
Mauer & Chesny-Lind
Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment
Economic Perspectives: Wealth, Income, Credit/Debt
William Julius Wilson
The Declining Significance of Race: Black and Changing American Institutions
Louise Seamster & Raphael Charron-Chenier Predatory Inclusion and Education Debt: Rethinking the Racial Wealth Gap
Thomas Shapiro & Melvin Oliver
Black Wealth / White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality
William Julius Wilson
When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor
RESOURCE GUIDES (I did not create these, see website for source)
University of Washington, Dept of Sociology
University of Washington, Athletics
Tulsa Syllabus: Odewale and Slocum
Ferguson Syllabus: Sociologists for Justice
University of Washington recommended readings on systemic racism
I’ll continue to work to update this list moving forward…….
Alexes Harris 