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
Colson Whitehead
If niggers were supposed to have their freedom, they wouldn't be in chains. If the red man was supposed to keep hold of his land, it'd still be his. If the white man wasn't destined to take this new world, he wouldn't own it now. Here was the true Great Spirit, the divine thread connecting all human endeavor--if you can keep it, it is yours. Your property, slave or continent. The American imperative. ...more
Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

Kay Redfield Jamison
As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless, cold, charmless, insipid, less than penetratingly bright, but otherwise---and inexplicably---to be envied.
Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

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