The displacement of abolitionist energies: women, African-Americans,

and reform movements.

The 14th and 15th amendments were major touchstones in American

political and legal history. The 14th guaranteed the title of “citizen” to
anyone born or naturalized in the United States, while the 15th
Amendment was designed to make sure that no one could be denied
the vote on account of race. But these amendments, as innovative as
they were, also had problems of their own. The 14th, for all its
progressive intentions, also made the very momentous mention of the
word “male”, which placed women on the outside of political
representation. The 15th amendment, for its part, said that
governments (state and Federal) shall not deny citizens the right to
vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude. What this
Amendment did not mention, however, was gender, which gave states
the ability to keep women from the polls.

Now, pockets of women had been advocating for women’s right to vote
—as well as the role of women outside the “sphere” of the home—for
decades at this point, but the logic of slavery—the logic of natural
inequality—worked alongside the logic of republicanism—the political
theory that saw the woman’s patriotic duty as keeping the home the
source of moral purity—to prevent women’s rights advocates from
gaining the critical mass of receptive listeners that they were hoping
for. The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, however, marks a turning
point in the story of women’s rights. Prior to the Seneca Falls
Convention, women had begun to explore new roles in society through
gaining jobs as “factory girls” in the burgeoning factory system of New
England, or as elementary school teachers—an acceptable job for a
young, unmarried woman—or as “spiritualists,” people who claimed to
have a special connection to the world of spirits, ghosts, and departed
love ones. All of these systems—the industrial, the school, and the
spiritualist systems—expanded over the course of the 19th century,
expanding the opportunities of women in these fields along with them.
But what these systems did not offer was political voice, and the
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 was one of the first attempts at
convening women interested in the cause of female suffrage.

But think of the date — 1848— and the other issues that reform-
minded, egalitarian women might be motivated by, namely: slavery.
And indeed the abolitionist movement and female suffrage movement
had a somewhat symbiotic relationship during these times, with many
abolitionists also advocating for women’s rights, and many women’s
rights advocates also advocating for abolition.

But here’s a fair historical question: with the end of slavery after the
civil war, what happened to this relationship between the struggle for
women’s rights and the struggle for the rights of black men and
women?

One place in which this issue came to a head was in the debates over
the 14th and 15th amendments, which created a deep schism in the
women’s movement.

How did we get here?

A shooting at the Capitol, in which a Los Angeles mother ends up being

wounded by a 66 year old minister from Tennessee, claiming that he
was a prophet of God. We hear about it immediately. He supposedly
began shouting Bible verses in a previous visit to the capital building.
He claimed in a letter to a court that he is above the law, and not to
“be governed by flesh and blood, but only by the Divine Love of God.”

Meanwhile, Donald Trump is the Republican party’s likely nominee, and

has traded in political rhetoric and imagery that is about demeaning
others, asserting his masculinity, and closing up the nation.

I need a narrative that explains the current state of things, and since I
don’t know definitively what the current state of things is, I at least
need a narrative that explains how these two events can exist
alongside a president with a black father and black wife and the
traction that a socialist and a woman have received from the American
public.

For my students, I need to create some basic synoptic texts about key
points from reconstruction to the present.

When it comes to Reconstruction, one should be able to explain how

the termination of slavery changed the lives of Americans in all
regions. No previous region had been untouched by the issue of
slavery.

I also need to talk about Indians, women, reform movements, religion,

education.

But I also need to think about how to best present this information.

Women
-Indigenous populations
-matrilineal inheritance
-Indian women as cultural mediators
-intermarriage in French and Spanish territories, in addition
to the story of Pocahontas
-“lazy husbands” and “monstrous women”
-Early settlements
-lacked women (roughly 6 men to 1 woman in the
Chesapeake); the few who came typically came as indentured servants
-Gentlewoman
-Laboring women as inferior, from inferior cultures
-Female slaves: manual labor and reproductive labor
-slave women often did agricultural work, indentured
servants often did domestic work
-sexual explotation
-“Only according to the condition of the mother”: a Virginia
statute in 1662 that explains that slavery is dependent upon the status
of the mother
-New England: more families, women bearing 7 - 8 children; New
England women lived for 70.8 years on average, while Chesapeake
women lived for 39 years on average
-Household labor — the household as the key economic unit —
cooking, baking, making clothes and candles, slaughtering and
butchering animals
-Anne Bradstreet, Puritan poet and settler
-Anne Hutchinson—from Massachusetts to Long Island, where
she was killed in an Indian attack in 1643. Rev. Hugh Peters on
Hutchinson: “You have stept out of your place, you have rather bine a
Husband than a Wife and a preacher than a Hearer; and a Magistrate
than a Subject”
-Mistress Margaret Brent of Maryland: she was “an unmarried
woman of substantial property and standing” who “defied gender
expectations when she was appointed the lord proprietor’s attorney.
Based on her appointment, she petitioned the colonial government in
1647 for the right to vote in Maryland’s general assembly.” Her request
was denied. (American Womens History: A Very Short Introduction)
-Mary Rowlandson — Captivity and release (Narragansett); Mary
Jemison: captivity and remaining (Seneca)
-Witches — Salem, 1692
-Phyllis Wheatley
-Consumerism of the 1700s and print culture, such as Pamela and
Clarissa.
-Women organizing boycotts of British goods — the “politicization
of the household” (American Womens History: A Very Short
Introduction)
-Women’s associations and raising money for the Revolutionary
War — The Ladies Association of Philadelphia
-Some even fought in the war — Deborah Sampson being one
-Republican motherhood
-Benjamin Rush: “Thoughts on Female Education” (1787)
-Finishing schools and female academies: Emma Willard’s school
in Troy, New York (1819); teaching becomes a female opportunity — “by
midcentury, a quarter of the nation’s teachers were women, although
the future was much higher (four-fifths) in Massachusetts, a harbinger
of the future” (American Womens History: A Very Short Introduction).
-Oberlin is founded in 1833 as coeducational
-Coverture
-Women lost ability to act independently in law when they
were married. William Blackstone: “by marriage, the husband and wife
are one person in law.”
-Factory girls
-In the South, white women had more in common with white men
than with black slave women.
-Slave women’s status linked to ability to reproduce; still tried to
marry and have families. 1808 and the end of the slave trade impacted
them.
-only 5% worked in the house
-Benevolent Associations and using private charity and energy to
deal with social problems
-spiritual and personal improvement at home and abroad —
somewhat derisively called “patching business”
-attempting to use “moral suasion” to convince people to
change
-The Grimke sisters, Sojourner Truth, and Lucretia Mott as
abolitionists working with Garrison
-Sarah Josepha Hale founds Ladies Magazine (1828), then
becomes editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book. Also important are The Frugal
Housewife (1829) and Catherine Beecher’s Treatise on Domestic
Economy (1841). These texts emphasized “true womanhood” based on
“piety, purity, submission, and domesticity” (American Womens
History: A Very Short Introduction)
-Sentimentality and literature
-Abolitionism. Abby Kelley Foster: “We have good cause to be
grateful to the slave. In striving to strike his irons off, we found most
surely, that we were manacled ourselves.” (American Womens History,
46)
-Lucy Stone, one of Oberlin’s first female graduates
-Rise of the middle class leads to rise of female immigrant / poor
servants.
-1840s: mill girls start to form labor unions
-Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845), argues
for equal opportunity
-Spiritualism
-Civil War and participation in the U.S. Sanitary Commission
-Dorothea Dix and three thousand others signed on as
nurses during the Civil War; included Louisa May Alcott, author of
Little Women
-“Whereas just under half of the eligible northern men
served in the Union army, closer to four-fifths of eligible southern men
joined the Confederate ranks, leaving white women to constitute a
‘second front,’ literally running farms and plantations…” ( American
Womens History,, 53)
-Civil War spurs industrialism which leads to economic growth
which leads to more women in the workplace. 14 percent of workforce
in 1870, 20 percent by 1910
-Clara Barton founds the American Red Cross in 1881
-Chinese Women in San Francisco - 1860, 85 percent of chinese
women prostitutes, 1880, 28 percent, because of other job
opportunities
-1862 Homestead Act — women could gain 160 acres if they
improved the land.
-1862 Morrill Act - provided more educational opportunities to
women.
-Anti-Miscegenation
-Progressivism and reform
-Temperance movement — Women’s Christian Temperance Union
founded in 1879, led by Frances Willard until her death in 1898
-International Ladies Garment Workers Union
-National Consumers League
-Women’s Trade Union League
-The “New Woman” of the 189s - more modern
-Declining birth rate: “Over the course of the nineteenth century,
the average number of births per woman dropped from seven in 1800
to 3.5 in 1900
-By 1900, there was less domestic labor, more consumption,
longer life with fewer children — this led to more women getting
college degrees and throwing themselves into civic reform
-National Association of Colored Women created in 1896 with one
hundred member organizations; by 1914, there were 1,000 clubs and
50,000 women
-Chinese Women’s Jeleab [Self-Reliance] Association in San
Francisco, and the Neighborhood House in Atlanta, founded in 1913.
Just some examples of associations and clubs.
-By 1900, women made of 37% of all students in colleges. By
1920, 48 %
-Settlement Homes — Hull House founded in 1889.
-1909 NAACP
-1911: Triangle Shirtwaist fire
-1912: U.S. Children’s Bureau founded after the efforts of women,
and was headed by Hull House alumna Julia Lathrop
-Margaret Sanger and the first birth control clinic, NY, 1916
-Emma Goldman, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Charlotte Perkins
Gilman
-Conservative organizations: Women Sentinels of the Republic,
Daughters of the American Revolution, KKK
-Alice Paul drafts Equal Rights Amendment in 1923 — it would not
pass Congress until 1972, and then died at the State level
-Female sexuality and reproduction
-Flappers and leisure and popular culture in the 1920s
-Feminism
-Depression: “number of married women working doubled during
the decade.” Frances Perkins as a link between progressive era reform
and the New Deal
-Unionization: 250,000 female union members in 1929,
800,000 by end of 1930s
-WWII and Rosie the Riveter - female workforce grows 50 percent
between 1940 and 1945
-450,000 join the military — Women’s Army Corps and
Women Appointed for Volunteer Emergency; Women Airforce Service
Pilots
-1950s prosperity leads to women marrying earlier — by 1951, a
third of all American women were married by 19 years of age; average
woman has four children; but at the same time, more women are
working — by 1960 1/3 of these women held jobs outside the home
-Black Women and the Civil Rights movement - Rosa Parks, Ella
Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer and SNCC
-Birth control approval (1960)
-Dolores Huerta and Jessie Lopez De La Cruz are some of the
major players in the new United Farmworkers of America (1962)
-President’s Commission on the Status of Women (1961)
-Equal Pay Act (1963) and the Lily Ledbetter Act
-Betty Frieden’s Feminine Mystique
-Civil Rights Act (1964) bars discrimination based on sex
-Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
-National Organization for Women (NOW) founded (1966)
-LBJ’s executive order 11375 expands affirmative action policy of
1965 to gender (1967)
-Gloria Steinem launches Ms. Magazine (1971)
-National Chicana Conference held in Houston, 1971
-Phyllis Scholarly and STOP ERA begins in 1972
-“We reject the ‘gender-free’ approach. We believe that there
are many differences between male and female, and that we are
entitled to have our laws, regulations, schools, and courts reflect these
differences and allow for reasonable differences in treatment that
reasonable men and women want. We reject the argument that sex
discrimination should be treated the same as race discrimination.
There is vastly more difference between a man and a woman than
there is between a black and a white, and it is nonsense to adopt a
legal and bureaucratic attitude that pretends that those differences do
not exist.”
-1972: African American Congressperson Shirley Chisholm runs
for President.
 -Eisenstadt v. Baird — Supreme court rules that the right to
privacy includes a single woman’s right to contraception (1972)
-Equal Rights Amendment passes Congress in 1972, and then
died at the State level in 1982
-Roe v. Wade — a woman’s right to safe and legal abortion
overrides the anti-abortion laws of many states
-Black Feminism: The Combahee River Collective, black feminists
in the Boston area, write an influential black feminist text (1977)
-Right to life movement emerges after Roe V. Wade. In 1977
Congress passes the Hyde Amendment, which prohibited federal funds
from paying for abortions for welfare recipients; Supreme Court
upholds the law in 1980s
-The first marital rape law enacted in Nebraska (1976)
-Military academies open to women
-Pregnancy Discrimination Act passes (1978)
-Stop ERA and anti-feminism
-Legal scholar Catherine MacKinnon pioneers argument that
“Sexual harassment” was covered by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of
1964
-Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson — Supreme Court rules that
sexual harassment is a form of illegal job discrimination (!986)
-Federal rule prohibits women from serving in combat (1994)
-United States v. Virginia, Supreme Court rules that all-male VMI
has to admit women in order to continue to receive public funding, and
that a separate all-female school is insufficient (1996)
-The “feminization of poverty”: by 2000, 1/3 children was born to
an unmarried mother; combined with lower wages for women, leads to
impoverishment
-By 2002, the median wage for full-time female workers in 77%
that of a man’s, up from 59% in 1970
-Supreme Court upholds ban on partial-birth abortion procedure
(2006)
-Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Ac (2009)
-1994 ban on women serving in combat roles is lifted (or is that
2012?)
-Female politicians - Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Madeline Albright,
Condoleezza Rice; Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena
Kagan; Sarah Palin

Men
Colonial
Edmund S. Morgan, Visible Saints: The History of A Puritan Idea
Patricia U. Bonomi, Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and
Politics in Colonial America
Robert A. Gross, The Minutemen and Their World
Owen Starwood, The Empire Reformed: English American in the Age of
the Glorious Revolution
Sumner Chilton Powell, Puritan Village: The Formation of a New
England Town
Selma R. Williams, Divine Rebel: The Life of Anne Marbury Hutchinson
Robert Middlekauff, The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution,
1763 - 1789
Kenneth A. Lockridge, A New England Town: The First Hundred Years
Sharon Block, Rape and Sexual Power in Early America
Susan Juster, Disorderly Women: Sexual Politics and Evangelicalism in
Revolutionary New England
-Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of
Women in Northern New England (Vintage, 1991)
Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in
the Great Lakes Region, 1650 - 1815

Labor
Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
(2000)
——. River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton
Kingdom
-Jennifer L. Morgan, Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery
-Vicki L. Ruiz, Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women,
Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930 - 1950
-Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago,
1919 - 1939
-Thomas G. Andrews, Killing for Coal: Americas Deadliest Labor War
-David Roeriger, Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants
Became White
-Deborah Gray White, Ar’n’t I a Woman? Female Slaves in the
Plantation South
Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the
Republican Party Before the Civil War
-Elizabeth Sanders, Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the
American State, 1877 - 1917
-Jefferson R. Cowle, Stayin Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the
Working Class
-Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in
the United States
-David Reedier, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the
American Working Class
-Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-
of-the-Century New York
-Lara Vapnek, Working Women & Economic Independence, 1865 - 1920
(Illinois, 2009)
Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement
of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Anchor, 2009)
Tera W. Hunter, To ‘Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and
Labors after the Civil War (Harvard, 1998)
Beth Tompkins Bates, Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics
in Black America, 1925 - 1945
-Ronald T. Takaki, Pau Hana: Plantation Life and Labor in Hawaii, 1835 -
1920
Emilio Zamora, The World of the Mexican Worker in Texas
Nan Enstad, Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women,
Popular Culture, and Labor Politics and the Turn of the Twentieth
Century (Columbia, 1999)
Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work,
and the Family, from Slavery to the Present (Basic, 2009)
-Deborah Cohen, Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational
Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico
Carey McWilliams, Factories in the Field: the Story of Migratory Farm
Labor in California
-Jeanne Boydston, Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the
Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic
Thavolia Glymph, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of
the Plantation Household

Politics and Economics

The Rise and Fall of American Growth
Edmund Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom
ira Katznelson, Fear Itself
Cybele Fox, Three Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and the
American Welfare State
Jackson Lears, Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America,
1877 - 1920
Alan Brinkley, The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession
and War
Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right
Elizabeth Sanders, Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the
American State, 1877 - 1917
Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the
Republican Party Before the Civil War
-Lara Vapnek, Working Women & Economic Independence, 1865 - 1920
(Illinois, 2009)
Tera W. Hunter, To ‘Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and
Labors after the Civil War (Harvard, 1998)
-Ronald T. Takaki, Pau Hana: Plantation Life and Labor in Hawaii, 1835 -
1920
Robert C. McMath, American Populism: A Social History, 1877 - 1898
Charles Postel, The Populist Vision
Annalise Orleck, Storming Caesar’s Palace: How Black Mothers Fought
Their Own War on Poverty
David E. Witkins, American Indian Politics and the American Political
System
-Deborah Cohen, Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational
Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico
Gordon S. Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776 - 1787
Jacob S. Hacker, The Divided Welfare State
Theda Skopcol, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins
of Social Policy in the United States
Kimberly J. Morgan, The Delegated Welfare State: Medicare, Markets,
and the Governance of Social Policy
Christopher Howard, The Hidden Welfare State: Tax Expenditures and
Social Policy in the United States
Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Scott W. Allard, Out of Reach: Place, Poverty, and the New American
Welfare State
Gabriel Zucman, The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax
Havens
Alex F. Schwartz, Housing Policy in the United States
Kathleen Thelen, Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of
Social Solidarity
Judith Stein, Pivotal Decade: How the U.S. Traded Factories for
Finance in the Seventies
Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets Since
the Depression
Kevin M. Kruse, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America
Invented Christian America
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in
American Business
Jason Scott Smith, Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political
Economy of Public Works, 1933 - 1956
Gary Gerstle, Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American
Government from the Founding to the Present

Social movements
Darren Dochuk, From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion,
Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism
Richard M. Valley, The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black
Enfranchisement
Bethany Moreton, To Serve God and Walmart: The Making of Christian
Free Enterprise
Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform
Charles Postel, The Populist Vision
Robert C. McMath, American Populism: A Social History, 1877 - 1898
Michael McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the
Progressive Movement inn America, 1870 - 1920
Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right
Daniel T. Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive
Age
Elizabeth Sanders, Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the
American State, 1877 - 1917
-Lara Vapnek, Working Women & Economic Independence, 1865 - 1920
(Illinois, 2009)
Michael J. Klarman, From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court
and the Struggle for Racial Equality
-Lisa Levenshtein, A Movement Without Marches: Afriican American
Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia
Beth Tompkins Bates, Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics
in Black America, 1925 - 1945
-Bruce J. Dierenfield, The Civil Rights Movement
Catherine S. Ramirez, The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender,
Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory
Annalise Orleck, Storming Caesar’s Palace: How Black Mothers Fought
Their Own War on Poverty
-Jeanne Theoharis, Want to Start a Revolution? Radical Women in the
Black Freedom Struggle
Thomas J. Sugrue, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for
Civil Rights in the North
Premilla Nadasen, Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of
African American Women Who Built A Movement (Beacon, 2015 —
endorsed by Kessler Harris, Angela Davis)
Cynthia E. Orozco, No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of
the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
Matthew Garcia, From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of
Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement
Ruth Rosen, The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s
Movement Change America
Christine Leigh, Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt
Gordon S. Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776 - 1787
Serena Mayeri, Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil
Rights Revolution (Harvard, 2012)
Robert O. Self, All in the Family: The Realignment of American
Democracy Since the 1960s (Hill & Wang, 2012)
Douglas S. Massey & Nancy A. Denton, American Apartheid:
Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets Since
the Depression
Kevin M. Kruse, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America
Invented Christian America
Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of
the American Consensus
Jennifer Burns, Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American
Right
Sven Beckert, The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the
Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850 - 1896
George H. Nash, The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America
Since 1945
Daniel K. Wiliams, God’s Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right

White Supremacy
Stephen Budiansky, The Bloody Shirt: Terror After the Ciil War
Charles Wilson, Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause
Douglas S. Massey & Nancy A. Denton, American Apartheid:
Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
J. Douglas Smith, Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and
Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia (UNC, 2002)

Two states: garrison and carceral

Marie Gottschalk, Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of
American Politics
Michael Javen Fortner, Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug
Laws and the Politics of Punishment
James T. Sparrow, Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age
of Big Government
Andrea Friedman, Citizenship in Cold War America: The National
Security State and the Possibilities of Dissent
Rebecca McClennan, The Crisis of Imprisonment
Christian Parenti, Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of
Crisis
Robert Parkinson, Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire
Juanita Diaz-Cotto, Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice: Voices from El
Barrio
Geoff K. Ward, The Black Child-Savers: Racial Democracy and Juvenile
Justice
Naomi Murakawa, The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison
America
Jamie J. Fader, Falling Back: Incarceration and Transitions to
Adulthood among Urban Youth
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and
Opposition in Globalizing California
Ana Muniz, Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow
Elliott Currie, Crime and Punishment in America
Alice Goffman, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
Todd R. Clear, The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of
Mass Incarceration in America
Joe Soss, Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the
Persistent Power of Race
Loci Wacquant, Punishing the Poor: the Neoliberal Government of
Social Insecurity
Amy E. Lerman, Arresting Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences
of American Crime Control
Devah Pager, Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass
Incarceration
Annette Lareau, Unequal Chidlhoods: Class, Race, and Family Lie
William Julius Wilson, More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in
the Inner City

Indians
Richard White, The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia
River (1996)
Daniel Richter, Facing East from Indian Country
Pekka Hamalinen, The Comanche Empire
Barbara Krauthamer, Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery,
Emancipation and Citizenship in the Native American South
Theda Purdue, Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700 -
1835
Pablo Mitchell, Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in
Modernizing New Mexico, 1880 - 1920
David E. Witkins, American Indian Politics and the American Political
System
Brenda J. Child, Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families,
1900 - 1940
Nicolas G. Rosenthal, Reimagining Indian Country: Native American
Migration and Identity in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native
People in North America
Devon A. Minesuah, American Indians
Malcolm Margolin, The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco -
Monterey Bay Area
Brendan C. Lindsay, Murder State: California’s Native American
Genocide, 1846 - 1873
Elizabeth A. Fenn, Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of
the Mandan People
Peter Iverson, ‘We Are Still Here’: American Indians Since 1890
Peter Silver, Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Earl
America
Claudio Saunt, Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an
American Family
Karl Jacoby, Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence
of History
William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the
Ecology of New England
Joshua Piker, Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America
Woody Holton, Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the
Making of the American Revolution in Virginia
Aiden T. Vaughan, New England Frontier: Puritans and Indians, 1625 -
1675 (3rd ed.)
Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in
the Great Lakes Region, 1650 - 1815

African Americans
Peter H. Wood, Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial America
Peter H. Wood, Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from
1670 through the Stono Rebellion
Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in
North America
Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery
W.E.B. DuBois, History of Reconstruction
Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work,
and the Family, from Slavery to the Present (Basic, 2009)
Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
(2000)
——. River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton
Kingdom
Edmund Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom
Timothy Tyson, Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of
Black Power
Leon Litwack, Trouble in Mind
Seth Rickman, Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early
Baltimore (Johns Hopkins, 2009)
Mary L. Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of
American Democracy
Glenda Elizabeth, Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919
- 1950
Thomas Boerstelmann, The Cold War and the Color Line: American
Race Relations in the Global Arena
-Deborah Gray White, Ar’n’t I a Woman? Female Slaves in the
Plantation South
Michael J. Klarman, From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court
and the Struggle for Racial Equality
David M. Oshinsky, Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal
of Jim Crow Justice
Philip Dray, At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black
America
Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of
America’s Great Migration
C. Vann Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Charles Lane, The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the
Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
Tera W. Hunter, To ‘Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and
Labors after the Civil War (Harvard, 1998)
William M. Tuttle, Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919
-Lisa Levenshtein, A Movement Without Marches: Afriican American
Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia
Beth Tompkins Bates, Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics
in Black America, 1925 - 1945
Steven Hahn, A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the
Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
Gary B. Nash, The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of
Revolution
-Bruce J. Dierenfield, The Civil Rights Movement
-Davarian L. Baldwin, Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, the Great
Migration, and Black Urban Life
Annalise Orleck, Storming Caesar’s Palace: How Black Mothers Fought
Their Own War on Poverty
-Jeanne Theoharis, Want to Start a Revolution? Radical Women in the
Black Freedom Struggle
Thomas J. Sugrue, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for
Civil Rights in the North
Premilla Nadasen, Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of
African American Women Who Built A Movement (Beacon, 2015 —
endorsed by Kessler Harris, Angela Davis)
Claudio Saunt, Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an
American Family
Scott Kurashige, The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese
Americans in the Making of Los Angeles
T.H. Been, ‘Myne Owne Ground’ Race and Freedom on Virginia’s
Eastern Shore
Serena Mayeri, Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil
Rights Revolution (Harvard, 2012)
Douglas S. Massey & Nancy A. Denton, American Apartheid:
Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
J. Douglas Smith, Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and
Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia (UNC, 2002)
Mary Pattilo, Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black
Middle Class (2nd ed.)

Asians
Mae Ngaio, Impossible Subjects
Nayan Shah, Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San
Francisco’s Chinatown
Natalia Molina, How Race is Made in America: Immigration,
Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
Mae Ngaio, The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary
Invention of Chinese America

Latinos
Julie M. Weise, Corazon de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since
1910
Adam Arenson, Civil War Tests: Testing the Limits of the United States
John Mack Faraghar, Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier
Los Angeles
Ruth End Zambrana, Latinos in American Society: Families and
Communities in Transition
Leis Abrego, Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love
Across Borders
Pablo Mitchell, Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in
Modernizing New Mexico, 1880 - 1920
Emilio Zamora, The World of the Mexican Worker in Texas
George J. Sanchez, Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture,
and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900 - 1945
Albert Camarillo, Chicanos in a Changing Society: From Mexican
Pueblos to American Barrios in Santa Barbara and Southern California,
1848 - 1930
Adrian Burgos, Beyond El Barrio: Everyday Life in Latino/a America
Natalia Molina, How Race is Made in America: Immigration,
Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
Dr. Ana Elizabeth, Abrazando el Espiritu: Bracero Families Confront the
US-Mexico Border
Neil Foley, Mexicans in the Making of America
Juan Gonzalez, Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
Miroslava… Negotiating Conquest: Gender and Power in California,
1770s to 1880s
Virginia E. Sanchez, From Colonia to Community: The History of Puerto
Ricans in New York City
Nicholas de Genova, Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and
‘Illegality’ in Mexican Chicago
-Deborah Cohen, Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational
Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico
Cynthia E. Orozco, No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of
the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
Elizabeth R. Escobedo, From Coveralls to Zoot Suits: The Lives of
Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front
-Gilbert M. Joseph, Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the
Cultural History of U.S. - Latin American Relations
Carey McWilliams, Factories in the Field: the Story of Migratory Farm
Labor in California
-Nayan Shah, Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the
Law in the North American West
Scott Kurashige, The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese
Americans in the Making of Los Angeles
Alicia Schmidt Camacho, Migrant Imaginaries: Latino Cultural Politics
in the U.S. - Mexico Borderlands
Eric Avila, The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the
Modernist City
Roberto Ramon, Azllan and Arcadia: Religion, Ethnicity, and the
Creation of Place
Jose Angel Hernandez, Mexican American Colonization during the
Nineteenth Century
Matthew Garcia, From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of
Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement

Citizenship, rights, and immigration

-Mae Ngai, Impossible Subjets: Illegal Aliens and the Making of
Modern America
-Matthew Frye Jacobson, Barbarian Virtues: The United States
Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad
-Matthew Frye Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color:
European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race
-David Roeriger, Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s
Immigrants Became White
-Peggy Pascoe, What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and
the Making of Race in America
-Hannah Rosen, Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship,
Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation
South
-Barbara Krauthamer, Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery,
Emancipation and Citizenship in the Native American South
-Ronald T. Takaki, Pau Hana: Plantation Life and Labor in Hawaii,
1835 - 1920
Pablo Mitchell, Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in
Modernizing New Mexico, 1880 - 1920
Thomas J. Sugrue, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle
for Civil Rights in the North
David E. Witkins, American Indian Politics and the American
Political System
Natalia Molina, How Race is Made in America: Immigration,
Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
Dr. Ana Elizabeth, Abrazando el Espiritu: Bracero Families
Confront the US-Mexico Border
Neil Foley, Mexicans in the Making of America
-Roger Daniels, Not Like Us: Immigrants and Minorities in
America, 1890 - 1924
-Kelly Lyle Hernandez, Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol
Miroslava… Negotiating Conquest: Gender and Power in
California, 1770s to 1880s
-Geraldo L. Cadava, Standing on Common Ground: The Making of
a Sunbelt Borderland
-Deborah Cohen, Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational
Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico
-Cynthia E. Orozco, No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed: The
Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
Natalia Molina, Fit to be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los
Angeles, 1879 - 1939
Leis Abrego, Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and
Love Across Borders
Ruth Rosen, The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s
Movement Change America
Diane Sainsbury, Welfare States and Immigrant Rights: The
Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion (Oxford, 2012)
J. Douglas Smith, Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and
Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia (UNC, 2002)

International Affairs and imperialism

-Akira Iriye
-Gilbert M. Joseph, Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the
Cultural History of U.S. - Latin American Relations
-Matthew Frye Jacobson, Barbarian Virtues: The United States
Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad
-David Ekbladh, The Great American Mission: Modernization and
the Construction of an American World Order (Princeton, 2010)
-Max Paul Friedman, Rethinking Anti-Americanism: The History of
an Exceptional Concept in American Foreign Relations (New York:
Cambridge, 2012)
-Odde Arne Westad, The Global Cold War: Third World
Interventions and the Making of Our Times
-Kristin Hoganson, Consumer’s Imperium: The Global Production
of American Domesticity, 1865 - 1920 (2007)
-Eric Rauchway, Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made
America (2006)
-Glenda Suga, Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism (Penn,
2013)
-Emily Rosenberg, “Revisiting Dollar Diplomacy: Narratives of
Money and Maniliness,” Diplomatic History 22 (Spring, 1996) 155 - 176.
——. “American and the World: From National to Global,”
Organization of American Historians Magazine of history , vol. 21, Issue
2. (Apr. 2007)
——. “World War I, Wilsonianism, and Challenges to U.S.
Empire,” Diplomatic History (2014)
——. Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and
Culture of Dollop Diplomacy, 19000 - 1930
——. Spreading the American Dream: American Economic
and Cultural Expansion, 1890 - 1945 (Hill and Wang)
Stephen Kinder, Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change
from Hawaii to Iraq

Religious ideas and organizations

James A. Monroe, Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American
History
Kevin M. Kruse, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America
Invented Christian America
Nathan Hatch, The Democratization of Christianity

Historiography and Historical thinking

James M. Banner, A Century of American Historiography
Helen Delpar, Looking South: The Evolution of Latin Americanist
Scholarship in the United States, 1850 - 1975
Legal history, Federal power, state power

Urbanization, Modernity and Postmodernity

-Davarian L. Baldwin, Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, the Great
Migration, and Black Urban Life
William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great Midwest
What Hath God Wrought
Robert Wiehe, The Search for Order, 1877 - 1920
Jackson Lears, Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America,
1877 - 1920
Gabriela F. Arredondo, Race, Identity, and Nation, 1916 - 1939
Thomas J. Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis
Charles Postel, The Populist Vision
Books on the great migration
Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right
Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern
Conservatism
-Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-
of-the-Century New York
William M. Tuttle, Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919
-Lisa Levenshtein, A Movement Without Marches: Afriican American
Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia
Christine Stansell, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789 -
1860
Nicolas G. Rosenthal, Reimagining Indian Country: Native American
Migration and Identity in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
Michael Innis-Jimenez, Steel Barrio: The Great Mexican Migration to
South Chicago, 1915 - 1940
Scott Kurashige, The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese
Americans in the Making of Los Angeles
Eric Avila, The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the
Modernist City
Roberto Ramon, Azllan and Arcadia: Religion, Ethnicity, and the
Creation of Place
Douglas S. Massey & Nancy A. Denton, American Apartheid:
Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
Robert O. Self, American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar
Oakland
Patrick Sharkey, Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of
Progress Toward Racial Equality (Chicago, 2013)
Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the
United States

Political parties and the business of democracy

Youth and the family

Sex and gender

-Rosemarie Zagarri, Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics
in the Early Republic (Penn, 2007)
-Kristin L. Hoganson, Fighting for American Manhood: How
Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-
American War
-Gail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of
Gender and Race in the United States, 1880 - 1917
-Amy S. Greenberg, Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum
American Empire (Cambridge, 2005)
-K.A. Cuordileone, Manhood and American Political Culture in the
Cold War (New York: Rutledge, 2005)
-Peter Filene, Him / Her / Self: Gender Identities in Modern
America (Johns Hopkins, 1998, 3rd edition)
-E. Anthony Rotundo, American Manhood: Transformations in
Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era (Basic, 1994)
-Michael Kimmel, Manhood in America: A Cultural History (Oxford,
2011, 3rd edition)
-Robert L. Griswold, Fatherhood in America: A History (Basic,
1993)
-Lawrence R. Samuel, American Fatherhood: A Cultural History
(Roman and Littlefield, 2015)
-Alice Kessler-Harris, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the
Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th Century America (Oxford, 2003)
 -Margot Canaday, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in
the Twentieth Century
-Kathleen M. Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, & Anxious
Patriarchs
-Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Good Wives: Image and Reality in the
Lives of Women in Northern New England (Vintage, 1991)
-Suzan Mettler, Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New
Deal Public Policy
-Nancy F. Cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism
-Jennifer L. Morgan, Reproduction and Gender in New World
Slavery
-Vicki L. Ruiz, Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women,
Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930 - 1950
-Danielle L. McGuire, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women,
Rape, and Resistance — A New History of the Civil Rights Movement
from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
-Crystal N. Feistier, Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of
Rape and Lynching
-George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the
Making of the Gay Male
-Morgan Taylor Shockley, We, Too, are Americans: African
American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940 - 1954
-Evelyn Brooks, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in
the Black Baptist Church
-Deborah Gray White, Ar’n’t I a Woman? Female Slaves in the
Plantation South
-Rosalind Rosenberg, Beyond Separate Spheres: Intellectual
Roots of Modern Feminism
-Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in
Turn-of-the-Century New York
--Lara Vapnek, Working Women & Economic Independence, 1865 -
1920 (Illinois, 2009)
-Peggy Pascoe, What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and
the Making of Race in America
-Lisa Levenshtein, A Movement Without Marches: Afriican
American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia
-Hannah Rosen, Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship,
Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation
South
-Barbara Krauthamer, Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery,
Emancipation and Citizenship in the Native American South
-Theda Purdue, Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change,
1700 - 1835
-Pablo Mitchell, Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in
Modernizing New Mexico, 1880 - 1920
-Jeanne Theoharis, Want to Start a Revolution? Radical Women in
the Black Freedom Struggle
-Premilla Nadasen, Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of
African American Women Who Built A Movement (Beacon, 2015 —
endorsed by Kessler Harris, Angela Davis)
-Miroslava… Negotiating Conquest: Gender and Power in
California, 1770s to 1880s
Elizabeth R. Escobedo, From Coveralls to Zoot Suits: The Lives of
Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front
-Nayan Shah, Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and
the Law in the North American West
-Johanna Schoen, Choice and Coercion: Birth Control,
Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare
-Juie Jeffrey, Frontier Women; ‘Civilizing’ the West? 1840 - 1880
-Mary Beth Norton, In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft
Crisis of 1692
-Mary Beth Norton, Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power
and Forming of American Society
-Susan E. Klepp, Revolutionary Conceptions: Women, Fertility, and
Family Limitation in American, 1760 - 1820
-Paul Boyer, Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft
-Clare A. Lyons, Sex among the Rabble: An Intimate History of
Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution in Philadelphia, 1730 - 1830
-Jeanne Boydston, Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the
Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic
-Elizabeth Reis, Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan
New England
Serena Mayeri, Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law, and the
Civil Rights Revolution (Harvard, 2012)

Cultural authority and Popular Culture

Lynn Spigel, Make Room for TV: Televison and the Family Ideal in
Postwar America
Guns

Technology and Science

The Military

Consumption
T.H. Been, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics
Shaped American Independence
Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass
Consumption in Postwar America
Monica Prasad, The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the
Paradox of Poverty

Race and Ethnicity

Things on Eugenics
Douglas S. Massey & Nancy A. Denton, American Apartheid:
Segregation and the Making of the Underclass (Harvard, 1993)
David Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
Matthew Frye Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color: European
Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race
Nell Painter, A History of White People
Ira Katznelson, When Affirmative Action Was White
David Roeriger, Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants
Became White
-Hannah Rosen, Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual
Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South
Grace Elizabeth Hale, Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in
the South, 1890 - 1940
Pablo Mitchell, Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in
Modernizing New Mexico, 1880 - 1920
George J. Sanchez, Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture,
and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900 - 1945
Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White
Lisa Fernandez Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans
in Postwar Chicago
Matt Garcia, A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making
of Greater Los Angeles
Michael Innis-Jimenez, Steel Barrio: The Great Mexican Migration to
South Chicago, 1915 - 1940
Natalia Molina, How Race is Made in America: Immigration,
Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
Claudio Saunt, Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an
American Family
Mia Bay, The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas
about White People, 1830 - 1925
Scott Kurashige, The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese
Americans in the Making of Los Angeles
Natalia Molina, Fit to be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los
Angeles, 1879 - 1939
T.H. Been, ‘Myne Owne Ground’ Race and Freedom on Virginia’s
Eastern Shore
Joe Soss, Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the
Persistent Power of Race
Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States
HoSong, et al. Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century
William Julius Wilson, The Declining Significance of Race
Lauren Araiza, To March for Others: The Black Freedom Struggle and
the United Farm Workers Penn, 2013)

For class with Foushee:

The Ox-Bow Incident
Alan Taylor, William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the
Frontier of the Early American Republic
Julie M. Weise, Corazon de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since
1910
Adam Arenson, Civil War Tests: Testing the Limits of the United States
John Mack Faraghar, Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier
Los Angeles
Jean Stein, West of Eden

For LA
Elena Zilberg, Space of Detention: The Making of a Transnational Gang
Crisis Between Los Angeles and San Salvador
Shana Bernstein, Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in
Twentieth Century Los Angeles
Robert Gooding-Williams, Reading Rodney King / Reading Urban
Uprising
Julie M. Weise, Corazon de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since
1910
Adam Arenson, Civil War Tests: Testing the Limits of the United States
John Mack Faraghar, Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier
Los Angeles
Karen Piper, Left in the Dust: How Race and Politics Created a Human
and Environmental Tragedy in L.A>
Miroslava… States of Delinquency: Race and Science in the Making of
California’s Juvenile Justice System
Eric Avila, Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy
in Suburban Los Angeles
Natalia Molina, Fit to be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los
Angeles, 1879 - 1939
Monica Perales, Smeltertown: Making and Remembering a Southwest
Border Community
Marc Reisner, Cadillac Dester
William Deverell, Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of
Metropolitan Los Angeles
Brenda Stevenson, The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice,
Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots
Leis Abrego, Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and
Love Across Borders

Eric Avila, The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the
Modernist City
Roberto Ramon, Azllan and Arcadia: Religion, Ethnicity, and the
Creation of Place
Victor M. Rios, Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys
(NYU, 2011)
Lisa Marie Cacho, Social Death: Racialized Sightlessness and the
Criminalization of the Unprotected (NYU, 2012)
Laura Isabel Serna, Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican
Film Culture Before the Golden Age
Jose Angel Hernandez, Mexican American Colonization during the
Nineteenth Century
Matthew Garcia, From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of
Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement
Jan Lin, The Power of Urban Ethnic Places: Cultural Heritage and
Community Life (check T.O.C.)
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and
Opposition in Globalizing California
Daniel Martinez…Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making
of Postwar California
Ana Muniz, Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries
Diego Vigil, The Projects: Gang and Non-Gang Families in East Los
Angeles
David K. Shipler, The Working Poor: Invisible in America
Alice O’Connor, Poverty Knowledge
Jean Stein, West of Eden