PublicBooks.org Trump Syllabus: Week 02 - White Power and Plausible Deniability

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From the PublicBooks Trump syllabus and AAIHS's suggested assignments to accompany PublicBooks.org's list.


Books

- W. E. B. Du Bois, “The White Worker,” and “The Counter-Revolution of Property,” Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 (Russel & Russel, 1935).

- Edmund S. Morgan, “Toward Racism,” in American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (Norton, 1975).

- Nancy MacLean, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (Oxford University Press, 1995).

- Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Color Blindness, History, and the Law,” in The House that Race Built: Black Americans, US Terrain, edited by Wahneema Lubiano (Pantheon, 1997).

- Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era (Lynne Rienner, 2001).

- Carol Anderson, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth About our Racial Divide (Bloomsbury, 2016).

- American History X. Directed by Tony Kaye (New Line Cinema, 1998)


Online

- Park Avenue: Money, Power, and the American Dream. Directed by Alex Gibney (PBS, 2012).