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Recommended Readings

 • Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell, and Maya Sen, The Political Legacy of American Slavery, Forthcoming, Journal of Politics, February 23, 2016


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Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 


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Gloria Anzaldua, Norma Cantu and Aida Hurtado, Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza 


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Edward E. Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism


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Douglas Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II


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Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963


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Campney, Missouri Historical Review, The Bootheel, The Drift of things in Southeast Missouri, 2019


• William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb, Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence Against Mexican Americanism the United States, 1848-1928


• Robert J. Cottrol, The Long, Lingering Shadow: Slavery, Race, and Law in the American Hemisphere


• Mark Curriden and Leroy Phillips Jr., Contempt of Court: The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching That Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism


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Robert DeFina & Lance Hannon, The Legacy of Black Lynching and Contemporary Segregation in the South, 2011


• W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk


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Rachel M. Durso and David Jacobs, The Determinants of the Number of White Supremacist Groups, Social Problems, Vol. 60, No. 1 (February 2013)


• Harriet C Frazier, Lynchings in Missouri, 1803-1981 


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Gateway Journalism Review, The 1875 Project, 2020


• James Goodman, Stories of Scottsboro


• S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History


• Grace Elizabeth Hale, Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940


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Frank M. Howell1 • John P. Bartkowski2 • Lynn M. Hempel3 • Jeremy R. Porter, When Faith, Race, and Hate Collide: Religious Ecology, Local Hate Cultures, and Church Burnings, 2017

• Sherrilyn Ifill, On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the 21st Century


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David Jacobs and Jason T. Carmichael, The Political Sociology of the Death Penalty: A Pooled Time-Series Analysis, American Sociological Review, Vol. 67, No. 1 (Feb., 2002)


• Walter Johnson, The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States • Gilbert King, Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America


• Michael Klarman, From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality


• Michael R. Kramer, The legacy of slavery and contemporary declines in heart disease mortality in the U.S. South, Elzelvier, SSM Population Health, Science Direct, 2017


• Kenneth W. Mack and Guy-Uriel Charles, The New Black: What Has Changed - and What Has Not - with Race in America


• Peter Matthiessen, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI’s War on the American Indian Movement


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James L. Massey and Martha A. Myers, Patterns of Repressive Social Control in Post-Reconstruction Georgia, 1882-1935, Social Forces, Vol. 68, No. 2 (Dec., 1989)


• Distrust of Government, the Vigilante Tradition, and Support for Capital Punishment, Steven F. Messner, Eric P. Baumer, Richard Rosenfeld, 2006


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Steven F. Messner, Robert D. Baller, Matthew P. Zevenbergen, The Legacy of Lynching and Southern Homicide, American Sociological Review, Vol. 70, No. 4 (Aug., 2005)


• Jonathan M. Metzl,  Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland  Copyright  2019


• Jose Luis Morin, Latino/a Rights and Justice in the United States


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Ngozi Ndulue and Rob Dunham, Enduring Injustice: the Persistence of Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Death Penalty, Death Penalty Information Center, 2020


• Eduardo Obregon Pagan, Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A.
• Nick Petersen and Geoff Ward, The Transmission of Historical Racial Violence: Lynching, Civil Rights–Era Terror, and Contemporary Interracial Homicide


• Charles David Phillips, Exploring Relations among Forms of Social Control: The Lynching and Execution of Blacks in North Carolina, 1889-1918, Law & Society Review, Vol. 21, No. 3 (1987), pp. 361-374


• Charles David Phillips, Social Structure and Social Control: Modeling the Discriminatory Execution of Blacks in Georgia and North Carolina, 1925-35, Social Forces, Vol. 65, No. 2 (Dec., 1986)


•  Jeremy R. Porter Plantation Economics, Violence, and Social Well-being: The Lingering Effects of Racialized Group Oppression on Contemporary Human Development in the American South, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 10 Aug 2011


• Robert L. Reece and Heather A. O’Connell, How the Legacy of Slavery and Racial Composition Shape Public School Enrollment in the American South, American Sociological Association 2015


• Theodore Rosengarten, All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw 


• Michael Rothburg, The Implicated Subject Beyond Victims and Perpetrators, 2019 


• Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption


• Shelly Tochluk, Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It  Second Edition Jan 16, 2010


•Margaret Vandiver, William Lofquist,  David Giacopassi, Slavery's Enduring Legacy, University of Memphis State University of New York at Geneseo, USA, Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice, 23 Sep 2008


• Geoff Ward, Microclimates of racial meaning: Historical Racial Violence and Environmental impacts, 2016


• Waziyatawin, What Does Justice Look Like? The Struggle for Liberation in Dakota Homeland 


• Laura Wexler, Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America


• Robert Whitaker, On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation


• Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration Equal Justice


• Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of our Discontents, 2020 

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