Noel Ignatiev teaches in the History and Literature Department at Harvard, and is the author of Race Traitor, as well as the recent How the Irish Became White. "Some books that have helped me think about the white problem in America" Black Reconstruction in America by W.E.B. DuBois Still the starting point for understanding race and class in the U.S. Shaping of Black America by Lerone Bennett, Jr. Could be called The Shaping of America. World They Made Together by Mechal Sobel Cultural exchange in 18th century Virginia. Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth Novel about African slaves, "free-born" English, and a dream deferred. Really the Blues by Milton "Mezz" Mezzrow & D. Wolfe One who refused to be white. Black Wealth, White Wealth by Melvin Oliver & Thomas Shapiro Still the Promised City? by Roger Waldinger How race is reproduced without legal discrimination or conscious intent. Omni-Americans by Albert Murray If not white, then.... Return to the Writers Read List

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