Sean Guynes' Whiteness 101 Reading List (Part One)

1.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,058 ratings
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How the Irish Became White
How the Irish Became White 3.73 avg rating — 1,710 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race: A Political History of Racial Identity
The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race: A Political History of Racial Identity 3.29 avg rating — 21 ratings
4.
Feeding the Other: Whiteness, Privilege, and Neoliberal Stigma in Food Pantries
Feeding the Other: Whiteness, Privilege, and Neoliberal Stigma in Food Pantries 4.12 avg rating — 48 ratings
5.
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America 4.53 avg rating — 37,886 ratings
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When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America 4.13 avg rating — 2,019 ratings
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Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century 4.25 avg rating — 1,842 ratings
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Race: How Blacks And Whites Think And Feel About The American Obsession
Race: How Blacks And Whites Think And Feel About The American Obsession 4.25 avg rating — 571 ratings
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Whiteness: An Introduction
Whiteness: An Introduction 3.67 avg rating — 18 ratings
10.
The Invention of the White Race: Racial Oppression and Social Control, Volume 1
The Invention of the White Race: Racial Oppression and Social Control, Volume 1 4.30 avg rating — 270 ratings
11.
The Invention of the White Race: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America, Volume 2
The Invention of the White Race: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America, Volume 2 4.38 avg rating — 221 ratings
11.
The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory
The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory 4.25 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania
Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania 4.40 avg rating — 53 ratings
14.
Off White
Off White
by: Lois Weis
3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings
15.
White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness
White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness 3.90 avg rating — 269 ratings
16.
Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America
Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America 3.90 avg rating — 51 ratings
17.
Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race
Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race 4.02 avg rating — 723 ratings
18.
Are Italians White?
Are Italians White? 4.22 avg rating — 78 ratings
19.
The White Men's Countries
The White Men's Countries
by: Hardy
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
20.
White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945
White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945 3.75 avg rating — 75 ratings
21.
Racial Situations: Class Predicaments of Whiteness in Detroit
Racial Situations: Class Predicaments of Whiteness in Detroit 3.76 avg rating — 131 ratings
22.
Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination
Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination 2.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
23.
The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas after the Civil War
The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas after the Civil War 3.78 avg rating — 27 ratings
24.
Race and Manifest Destiny: Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism
Race and Manifest Destiny: Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism 3.84 avg rating — 146 ratings
25.
Scandinavians in Chicago: The Origins of White Privilege in Modern America
Scandinavians in Chicago: The Origins of White Privilege in Modern America 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
26.
White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism 4.27 avg rating — 1,015 ratings
27.
Massive Resistance: The White Response to the Civil Rights Movement (Hodder Arnold Publication)
Massive Resistance: The White Response to the Civil Rights Movement (Hodder Arnold Publication) 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
28.
Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region: Exceptionalism, Migrant Others and National Identities
Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region: Exceptionalism, Migrant Others and National Identities 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide
The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide 4.20 avg rating — 178 ratings
30.
Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle's Fabrication of Aboriginal History
Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle's Fabrication of Aboriginal History 3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings
31.
Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality
Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality 4.22 avg rating — 282 ratings
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How Tasmanian Aboriginals Have Been Portrayed by White Australians: A History of Racial and Cultural Delegitimization and the Case of Truganini's Necklace
How Tasmanian Aboriginals Have Been Portrayed by White Australians: A History of Racial and Cultural Delegitimization and the Case of Truganini's Necklace 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
33.
The History of White People
The History of White People 4.07 avg rating — 3,174 ratings
34.
Two-Faced Racism
Two-Faced Racism 4.27 avg rating — 49 ratings
35.
The Postcolonial Eye: White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race
The Postcolonial Eye: White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
36.
Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping, and the New Imperialism
Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping, and the New Imperialism 4.17 avg rating — 58 ratings
37.
How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon
How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon 3.91 avg rating — 140 ratings
38.
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series) 3.99 avg rating — 2,346 ratings
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Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: the Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs
Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: the Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs 3.83 avg rating — 362 ratings
40.
Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White
Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White 4.26 avg rating — 105 ratings
41.
White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination
White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination
by: Jess Row
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 160 ratings
42.
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat
by: J. Sakai
4.18 avg rating — 1,027 ratings
43.
Whiteness and Social Change: Remnant Colonialisms and White Civility in Australia and Canada
Whiteness and Social Change: Remnant Colonialisms and White Civility in Australia and Canada it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
44.
Cities of Whiteness (Antipode Book Series)
Cities of Whiteness (Antipode Book Series) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
45.
There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975
There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975 3.97 avg rating — 256 ratings
46.
The Nature of Whiteness: Race, Animals, and Nation in Zimbabwe
The Nature of Whiteness: Race, Animals, and Nation in Zimbabwe 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
47.
Whitewashed: America’s Invisible Middle Eastern Minority (Critical America, 46)
Whitewashed: America’s Invisible Middle Eastern Minority (Critical America, 46) 3.88 avg rating — 42 ratings
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A Great Conspiracy Against Our Race: Italian Immigrant Newspapers and the Construction of Whiteness in the Early 20th Century
A Great Conspiracy Against Our Race: Italian Immigrant Newspapers and the Construction of Whiteness in the Early 20th Century really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
49.
Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
50.
The White Welfare State: The Racialization of U.S. Welfare Policy
The White Welfare State: The Racialization of U.S. Welfare Policy 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
51.
White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race
White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race 4.20 avg rating — 941 ratings
52.
Romances of the White Man's Burden: Race, Empire, and the Plantation in American Literature, 1880-1936
Romances of the White Man's Burden: Race, Empire, and the Plantation in American Literature, 1880-1936 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
53.
Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race
Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race 4.28 avg rating — 67 ratings
54.
White Apology and Apologia: Australian Novels of Reconciliation
White Apology and Apologia: Australian Novels of Reconciliation 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
55.
Race: A Theological Account
Race: A Theological Account 4.11 avg rating — 137 ratings
56.
Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror
Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror 3.91 avg rating — 44 ratings
57.
White: Essays on Race and Culture
White: Essays on Race and Culture 4.19 avg rating — 377 ratings
58.
Black Skin, White Masks
Black Skin, White Masks 4.26 avg rating — 18,213 ratings
59.
The White Racial Frame: Centuries of Racial Framing and Counter-Framing
The White Racial Frame: Centuries of Racial Framing and Counter-Framing 4.27 avg rating — 171 ratings
60.
A Moral Economy of Whiteness: Four Frames of Racializing Discourse
A Moral Economy of Whiteness: Four Frames of Racializing Discourse 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
61.
Odd Tribes: Toward a Cultural Analysis of White People
Odd Tribes: Toward a Cultural Analysis of White People 3.76 avg rating — 131 ratings
62.
The Everyday Language of White Racism
The Everyday Language of White Racism 4.09 avg rating — 233 ratings
63.
Whiteness: A Critical Reader
Whiteness: A Critical Reader
by: Mike Hill
3.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
64.
White Identity Politics
White Identity Politics 3.89 avg rating — 198 ratings
65.
The Intersections of Whiteness
The Intersections of Whiteness 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
66.
Psycurity: Colonialism, Paranoia, and the War on Imagination
Psycurity: Colonialism, Paranoia, and the War on Imagination 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
67.
Race, Whiteness, and Education
Race, Whiteness, and Education 4.31 avg rating — 29 ratings
68.
Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity
Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity 4.28 avg rating — 95 ratings
69.
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics 4.22 avg rating — 858 ratings
70.
Postcolonial Whiteness: A Critical Reader on Race and Empire (Suny Series in Postmodern Culture)
Postcolonial Whiteness: A Critical Reader on Race and Empire (Suny Series in Postmodern Culture) 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
71.
White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race
White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race 4.26 avg rating — 446 ratings
72.
Postfeminist Whiteness: Problematising Melancholic Burden in Contemporary Hollywood
Postfeminist Whiteness: Problematising Melancholic Burden in Contemporary Hollywood 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
73.
The Machinery of Whiteness: Studies in the Structure of Racialization
The Machinery of Whiteness: Studies in the Structure of Racialization 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings
74.
Feeling White: Whiteness, Emotionality, and Education (Cultural Pluralism, Democracy, Socio-environmental Justice & Education, 2)
Feeling White: Whiteness, Emotionality, and Education (Cultural Pluralism, Democracy, Socio-environmental Justice & Education, 2) 4.32 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Construction of Whiteness: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Race Formation and the Meaning of a White Identity
The Construction of Whiteness: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Race Formation and the Meaning of a White Identity 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
76.
The Racial Contract
The Racial Contract 4.39 avg rating — 1,811 ratings
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From Class to Race: Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism
From Class to Race: Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism 3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings
78.
The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty (Indigenous Americas)
The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty (Indigenous Americas) 4.31 avg rating — 148 ratings
79.
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination 4.32 avg rating — 7,357 ratings
80.
Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s
Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s 4.17 avg rating — 1,256 ratings
81.
Desiring Whiteness
Desiring Whiteness 3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings
82.
Killers of the Dream
Killers of the Dream 4.14 avg rating — 556 ratings
83.
The Souls of White Folk: African American Writers Theorize Whiteness (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies)
The Souls of White Folk: African American Writers Theorize Whiteness (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies) 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
84.
Look, a White!: Philosophical Essays on Whiteness
Look, a White!: Philosophical Essays on Whiteness 4.36 avg rating — 53 ratings
85.
Christology and Whiteness
Christology and Whiteness 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
86.
White Supremacy in Children's Literature : Characterizations of African Americans, 1830-1900
White Supremacy in Children's Literature : Characterizations of African Americans, 1830-1900 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture
White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism
The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism 3.77 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Apocalypse Man: The Death Drive and the Rhetoric of White Masculine Victimhood
Apocalypse Man: The Death Drive and the Rhetoric of White Masculine Victimhood 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
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White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue... and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation
White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue... and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation 4.13 avg rating — 1,662 ratings
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White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialisim and Anti-Commumisim vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa from Rhodes to Mandela
White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialisim and Anti-Commumisim vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa from Rhodes to Mandela 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
92.
Race War!: White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire
Race War!: White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire 3.76 avg rating — 33 ratings
93.
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean 4.28 avg rating — 176 ratings
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White Nation
White Nation 4.27 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow 4.16 avg rating — 4,105 ratings
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White Supremacy: A Comparative Study of American and South African History
White Supremacy: A Comparative Study of American and South African History 3.88 avg rating — 110 ratings
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The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817-1914
The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817-1914 4.04 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States
Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
99.
The White Nationalist Skinhead Movement: UK & USA, 1979 - 1993
The White Nationalist Skinhead Movement: UK & USA, 1979 - 1993 3.62 avg rating — 32 ratings
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White Lies
White Lies 3.78 avg rating — 32 ratings