Critical Race Theory


Primary Sources   I    Critical Race Studies


K. Anthony Appiah, "The Uncompleted Argument: Du Bois and the Illusion of Race" (Gates).

K. Anthony Appiah, "Race," Critical Terms for Literary Study (ed. Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin, 1990, 2d ed., 1995).

K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, Color Conscious (1998).

Mario Barrera, Race and Class in the Southwest: A Theory of Racial Inequality (1979).

Arnoldo de León, They Called Them Greasers: Anglo Attitudes toward Mexicans in Texas, 1821–1900 (1983).

W. E. B. Du Bois, "The Conservation of the Races," African American Literature (ed. Keith Gilyard and Annisa Wardi, 2004).

W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903, ed. David W. Blight and Robert Gooding-Williams, 1997).

Richard Dyer, White (1997).

Michael Eric Dyson, Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line (1997).

Gerald Early, ed., Lure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity, and the Ambivalence of Assimilation (1993).

Yen Le Espiritu, Asian American Panethnicity: Bridging Identities and Institutions (1992).

Frantz Fanon, Peau noire, masques blancs (1952, Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Charles Lan Markmann, 1967).

Ruth Frankenberg, White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness (1993).

Henry Louis Gates Jr., ed., "Race", Writing, and Difference (1985).

Paul Gilroy, Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line (2000).

Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993).

Paul Gilroy, "There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack" : The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation (1987).

Henry Giroux, Fugitive Cultures: Race, Violence, and Youth (1996).

David Theo Goldberg, Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning (1993).

David Theo Goldberg, ed., Anatomy of Racism (1990).

Thomas F. Gossett, Race: The History of an Idea in America (1965).

Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man (1981, rev. ed., 1996).

Jorge J. E. Gracia and Pablo De Greiff, eds., Hispanics/Latinos in the United States: Ethnicity, Race, and Rights (2000).

Carl Gutiérrez-Jones, Critical Race Narratives: A Study of Race, Rhetoric, and Injury (2001).

Thomas C. Holt, The Problem of Race in the Twenty-First Century (2000).

bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation (1992).

Reginald Horsman, Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of Racial Anglo-Saxonism (1981).

Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White (1995).

Robin D. G. Kelley, Yo’ Mama’s Dysfunctional! Fighting the Culture Wars in America (1997).

George Lipsitz, The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics (1998).

Lisa Lowe, Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (1996).

Wahneema Lubiano, ed., The House That Race Built (1998).

Scott L. Malcolmson, One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race (2000).

Charles W. Mills, The Racial Contract (1997).

David Morley and Kuan-Hsing Chen, eds., Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies (1996).

Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992).

Suzanne Oboler, Ethnic Labels/Latino Lives: Identity and the Politics of (Re)presentation in the United States (1995).

Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1980s (1986).

Lucius T. Outlaw, On Race and Philosophy (1996).

Clara Rodriguez, Changing Race: Latinos, the Census, and the History of Ethnicity in the United States (2000).

David R. Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (1991).

Edward W. Said, Orientalism (1978).

E. San Juan Jr., Racial Formations/Critical Transformations: Articulations of Power in Ethnic and Racial Studies in the United States (1992).

Alexander Saxton, The Rise and Fall of the White Republic: Class Politics and Mass Culture in Nineteenth-Century America (1990).

Bart Schneider, ed., Race: An Anthology in the First Person (1997).

Shawn Michelle Smith, American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture (1999).

Werner Sollors, Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture (1986).

Werner Sollors, "Ethnicity," Critical Terms for Literary Study (ed. Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin, 1990, 2d ed., 1995).

William Stanton, The Leopard’s Spots: Scientific Attitudes towards Race in America, 1815–1859 (1960).

Mary C. Waters, Ethnic Options: Choosing Identities in America (1990).

Cornel West, Race Matters (1993).

Patricia Williams, The Alchemy of Race and Rights (1991).

Howard Winant, The World Is a Ghetto: Race and Democracy since World War II (2001).