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 Vanishing Half
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
Just Mercy
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
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Country music was the most segregated kind of music in America, where even whites played jazz and even blacks sang in the opera. Something like country music was what lynch mobs must have enjoyed while stringing up their black victims. Country music was not necessarily lynching music, but no other music could be imagined as lynching’s accompaniment. Beethoven’s Ninth was the opus for Nazis, concentration camp commanders, and possibly President Truman as he contemplated atomizing Hiroshima, class ...more
Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

Martin Luther King Jr.
Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.
Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait

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