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The History of White People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,249 ratings — published 2010
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 27 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,634 ratings — published 2018
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,161 ratings — published 2016
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,657 ratings — published 2019
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
by (shelved 18 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,388 ratings — published 1991
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.39 — 17,569 ratings — published 2020
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,861 ratings — published 2020
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.22 — 873 ratings — published 1998
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.37 — 102,397 ratings — published 2017
How the Irish Became White (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as whiteness)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,826 ratings — published 1995
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,822 ratings — published 1992
Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.03 — 10,878 ratings — published 2014
The Ways of White Folks (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.47 — 5,761 ratings — published 1934
What Does It Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy (Counterpoints)
by (shelved 11 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.20 — 609 ratings — published 2012
The Invention of the White Race: Racial Oppression and Social Control, Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.29 — 282 ratings — published 1994
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,169 ratings — published 1983
White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as whiteness)
avg rating 3.90 — 270 ratings — published 1993
Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.03 — 743 ratings — published 1998
The Invention of the White Race: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America, Volume 2 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.40 — 231 ratings — published 1975
White: Essays on Race and Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.19 — 382 ratings — published 1997
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.54 — 13,640 ratings — published 2020
White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,732 ratings — published 2020
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as whiteness)
avg rating 3.83 — 516,183 ratings — published 2016
White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.26 — 461 ratings — published 1996
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.29 — 5,696 ratings — published 2019
Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness (Ordinary Terrible Things)
by (shelved 7 times as whiteness)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,509 ratings — published 2020
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as whiteness)
avg rating 3.77 — 25,798 ratings — published 2016
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,752 ratings — published 1952
White Like Me: Reflections On Race From A Privileged Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,437 ratings — published 2004
The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.00 — 611 ratings — published 2005
Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: the Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as whiteness)
avg rating 3.83 — 379 ratings — published 2005
White Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,138 ratings — published 2017
Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice (Audiobook)
by (shelved 6 times as whiteness)
avg rating 3.84 — 764 ratings — published 1995
Race Traitor (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as whiteness)
avg rating 3.52 — 77 ratings — published 1996
The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.50 — 729 ratings — published 2023
Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.13 — 441 ratings — published
White Identity Politics (Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology)
by (shelved 5 times as whiteness)
avg rating 3.87 — 215 ratings — published 2019
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.37 — 74,375 ratings — published 2018
Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority (City Lights Open Media)
by (shelved 5 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,578 ratings — published 2012
Towards the Abolition of Whiteness: Essays on Race, Politics, and Working Class History (Haymarket Series)
by (shelved 5 times as whiteness)
avg rating 3.96 — 47 ratings — published 1994
White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,869 ratings — published 2022
Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as whiteness)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,221 ratings — published 2021
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.55 — 131,036 ratings — published 1963
Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,183 ratings — published 2021
The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 4 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,074 ratings — published 2021
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 45,930 ratings — published 2020
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.52 — 169,009 ratings — published 2020
Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.11 — 538 ratings — published 2018
The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty (Indigenous Americas)
by (shelved 4 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.29 — 170 ratings — published 2015
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as whiteness)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,110 ratings — published 2005
“Elder Heber C. Kimball told an audience of Latter-Day Saints, 'We are not accounted as white people, and we don't want to live among them.' He insisted, 'I had rather live with the buffalo in the wilderness.”
― Let’s Talk About Race and Priesthood
― Let’s Talk About Race and Priesthood
“Whiteness is when nonwhite faces
are taken from birthplaces
to be sent across oceans and assigned a race;
when tribes are sent to forts and jails,
marched down trails—
displaced, erased,
until white faces were commonplace,
signing declarations and gracing
bronze statues
and twenty-dollar bills”
―
are taken from birthplaces
to be sent across oceans and assigned a race;
when tribes are sent to forts and jails,
marched down trails—
displaced, erased,
until white faces were commonplace,
signing declarations and gracing
bronze statues
and twenty-dollar bills”
―