Race Relations

Race-relations refers to the study of social, political, and economic relations between races and ethnicities at all levels of society. This area encompasses the study of racism, residential segregation, and other complex social processes between different racial and ethnic groups.

Between the World and Me
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
The Hate U Give
To Kill a Mockingbird
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The Help
How to Be an Antiracist
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
So You Want to Talk About Race
The Fire Next Time
Just Mercy
The Vanishing Half
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Colson Whitehead
White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. Why make it easy for him? That was one kind of work you could say no to.
Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

James Baldwin
There appears to be a vast amount of confusion on this point, but I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be "accepted" by white people, still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply don't wish to be beaten over the head by the whites every instant of our brief passage on this planet. White people in this country will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this -- which will not be tomorrow and will not be ...more
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

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