Race

Richard T. Ford, Racial Culture: A Critique [blurb, including link to chapter 1]
Glenn C. Loury, The Anatomy of Racial Inequality

Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race
David Austen-Smith and Roland G. Fryer, Jr., "An Economic Analysis of 'Acting White'", Quarterly Journal of Economics 120 (2005): 551--583
Ian Ayres, Pervasive Prejudice?: Unconventional Evidence of Race and Gender Discrimination [Blurb. Sounds cool, if depressing in its substantive conclusions...]
Elazar Barkan, The Retreat of Scientific Racism: Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States between the World Wars [blurb]
Michael K. Brown, Race, Money, and the American Welfare State
Mary L. Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy
Owen Fiss, A Way Out
Richard T. Ford, The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse [ch. 1]
George M. Frederickson, The Comparative Imagination: On the History of Racism, Nationalism, and Social Movements [Free online]
Ariela J. Gross, What Blood Won't Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America [blurb]
Ivan Hannaford, Race: The History of an Idea in the West
Lawrence A. Hirschfeld, Race in the Making: Cognition, Culture, and the Child's Construction of Human Kinds [Blurb: "Hirschfeld argues that knowledge of race is not derived from observations of physical difference nor does it develop in the same way as knowledge of other social categories. Instead, his central claim is that racial thinking is the product of a special-purpose cognitive competence for understanding and representing human kinds. The book also challenges the conventional wisdom that race is purely a social construction by demonstrating that a common set of abstract principles underlies all systems of racial thinking, whatever other historical and cultural specificities may be associated with them. Starting from the commonplace observation that race is a category of both power and the mind, Race in the Making directly tackles this issue. Through a sustained exploration of continuity and change in the child's notion of race and across historical variations in the race concept, Hirschfeld shows that a singular commonsense theory about human kinds constrains the way racial thinking changes, whether in historical time or during childhood."]
Benjamin Isaac, The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity [Blurb, with link to first chapter. Reviewed in BMCR, 2004.06.49]
Randall Kennedy
- Race, Crime and the Law
Richard H. King, Race, Culture, and the Intellectuals, 1940--1970 [Blurb]
Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds, Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality [blurb]
Maurice Olender, Race and Erudition [blurb]
Donad B. Redford, From Slave to Pharaoh: The Black Experience of Ancient Egypt [Blurb]
David R. Roediger, Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past
Deidre A. Royster, Race and the Invisible Hand: How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs
Joseph Ruane and Jennifer Todd, "The Roots of Intense Ethnic Conflict may not in fact be Ethnic: Categories, Communities and Path Dependence", European Journal of Sociology 45 (2004): 209--232 [Abstract: "This article criticizes two theoretical approaches to ethnicity and ethnic conflict. One emphasizes the intense solidarity generated by the ethnic bond and explains this in terms of a deep, quasi-kin feeling. The other emphasizes the contingency and situatedness of ethnic feeling and the fluctuating character of ethnic 'groupness'. We adopt an alternative strategy, locating ethnicity as one factor among many, which may form a path-dependent self-reproductive system generating communal opposition and ethnic conflict."]
Chris Smaje, Natural Hierarchies: The Historical Sociology of Race and Caste
Paul Sniderman and Thomas Piazza, Black Pride and Black Prejudice
Sollors, Neither Black Nor White Yet Both
Tzvetan Todorov, On Human Diversity: Nationalism, Racism, and Exoticism in French Thought
Paul L. Wachtel, Race in the Mind of America: Breaking the Vicious Circle
Clarence Walker, We Can't Go Home Again: An Argument about Afrocentrism
George Yancey, Who Is White? Latinos, Asians, and the New Black/Nonblack Divide
Naomi Zack, The Philosophy of Science and Race

Notebooks

Race