Further Readings: Books and Documents

Anderson, Margo J. The American Census: A Social History. New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1988.

Anderson, Margo J. and Fienberg, Stephen E. Who Counts? The Politics of Census-Taking in Contemporary America. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999.

Appiah, K. Anthony and Gutmann, Amy. Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Arab Americans in Public Service and Political Life. Washington, DC: Arab American Leadership Council, 2001.

Ball, Howard. The Bakke Case: Race, Education, & Affirmative Action. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2000.

Barkan, Elliott Robert. And Still They Come: Immigrants and American Society, 1920 to the 1990s. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1996.

Barone, Michael. The New Americans. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2001. Book Details

Bell, Derrick. Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism. New York: Basic Books, 1992.

Bergmann, Barbara R. In Defense of Affirmative Action. New York: New Republic/Basic Books, 1996.

Blee, Kathleen M. Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Book Details

Bowen, William and Bok, Derek. The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998.

Bradley, David and Fishkin, Shelley F., eds. The Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America. Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, 1998.

Chavez, Lydia. The Color Bind: California's Battle to End Affirmative Action. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Chiswick, Barry and Sullivan, Teresa A. "The New Immigrants." In Farley, Reynolds, ed. State of the Union: America in the 1990s. vol. 2. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1995.

Choldin, Harvey. Looking for the Last Percent: The Controversy over Census Undercounts. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994.

Clayton, Obie, Jr., ed. An American Dilemma Revisited: Race Relations in a Changing World. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1996. (See also Myrdal's An American Dilemma listed below.)

Cochran, David Carroll. The Color of Freedom: Race & Contemporary American Liberalism. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999. Book Details

Colamery, S.N. Affirmative Action: Catalyst or Albatross? Commack, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 1998.

Coleman, Jonathan. Long Way to Go: Black and White in America. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997.

Conley, Dalton. Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth and Social Policy in America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Book Details

Cose, Ellis. Color-Blind: Seeing Beyond Race in a Race-Obsessed World. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.

Curry, George E., ed., with contributions by Cornel West. The Affirmative Action Debate. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 1996.

Del Pinal, Jorge and Singer, Audrey. "Generations of Diversity: Latinos in the United States." Population Bulletin, October 1997, pp. 1-48.

Dinnerstein, Howard and Reimers, David M. Ethnic Americans: A History of Immigration, 4th ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.

Dudziak, Mary L. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. Book Details

Eastland, Terry. Ending Affirmative Action: The Case for Colorblind Justice. New York: Basic Books, 1996.

Edley, Christopher, Jr. Not All Black and White: Affirmative Action, Race, and American Values. New York: Basic Books, 1996.

Edmonston, Barry. The 2000 Census Challenge. PRB Reports on America, vol. 1, no. 1. Washington: Population Reference Bureau, January 1999.

Edmonston, Barry and Passel, Jeffrey S., eds. Immigration and Ethnicity: The Integration of America's Newest Arrivals. Washington: Urban Institute Press, 1994.

Edmonston, Barry and Schultze, Charles M., eds. Modernizing the U.S.Census. Washington: National Academy Press, 1995.

Farley, Reynolds. The New Reality: Who We Are, How We Got Here, Where We Are Going. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1996.

Fernandez, Ronald. America's Banquet of Cultures: Harnessing Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration in the Twenty-First Century. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000. Book Details

Fix, Michael and Turner, Margery Austin, eds. A National Report Card on Discrimination in America: The Role of Testing. Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute, 1999. Available from The Urban Institute. Also available in PDF format.

Foreman, Christopher H., ed. The African-American Predicament. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Press, 1999. Book Details   Full Text Online

Foundation for Ethnic Understanding. 5th Annual Report on Black/Jewish Relations in the United States in 2000. (PDF format) New York: The Foundation, [2001].

Foundation for Ethnic Understanding. National Survey in Latino-Jewish Relations. New York: The Foundation, 2001. Executive Summary.

Franklin, John Hope. The Color Line: Legacy for the Twenty-First Century. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1993.

Franklin, John Hope. Racial Equality in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.

Franklin, John Hope and Moss, Alfred A., Jr. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans. Seventh ed. New York: Knopf, 1994.

Frey, William H. and DeVol, Ross C. America's Demography in the New Century: Aging Baby Boomers and New Immigrants as Major Players (PDF format). Milken Institute Policy Brief no. 9. Santa Monica, CA: the Milken Institute, March 8, 2000.

Frey, William H. et al. Diversity in America: Projections for Minority, Black, Hispanic American and Asian American Populations to the Year 2001. Stamford, CT: PRIMEDIA Intertec, 1998.
For other works by this author, please see the publications page in the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan.

Fuchs, Lawrence H. The American Kaleidoscope: Race, Ethnicity, and the Civic Culture. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press and University Press of New England, 1990.

Funderburg, Lise. Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity. New York: Morrow, 1994.

Gallup Organization. Gallup Poll Analyses on Race Relations. Gallup Poll: Race Relations, 21 August 2001. The Gallup Poll Social Audit series, "Black/White Relations in the U.S.", 2001 update.

Galston, William A. Liberal Purposes: Goods, Virtues, and Diversity in the Liberal State. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. and West, Cornel. The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country. New York: Free Press, 2000. Excerpt

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. and West, Cornel. The Future of the Race. New York: Knopf, 1996.

Goodman, Paul. Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Grofman, Bernard, ed. Legacies of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 2000. Book Details

Hacker, Andrew. Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal. New York: Scribners, 1992.

Higginbotham, A. Leon. Shades of Freedom: Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Process. New York: Oxford, 1996.

Hochschild, Jennifer L. Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995.

Horton, James Oliver and Horton, Lois E. Hard Road to Freedom: The Story of African America. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001. Book Details

Howard, John R. and Smith, Robert C. The Shifting Wind: The Supreme Court and Civil Rights from Reconstruction to BROWN. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999.

Jacoby, Tamar. Someone Else's House: America's Unfinished Struggle for Integration. New York: Free Press, 1998.

Jenness, Valerie and Grattet, Ryken. Making Hate a Crime: From Social Movement to Law Enforcement. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001. Book Details

Jost, Kenneth. "Census 2000." The CQ Researcher, May 1, 1998, pp. 385-408.

Kahlenberg, Richard D. The Remedy: Class, Race, and Affirmative Action. New York: New Republic/Basic Books, 1995.

Kennedy, Randall. Race, Crime, and the Law. New York: Pantheon, 1997.

Kent, Mary M. et al. "First Glimpses from the 2000 U.S. Census." Population Bulletin, June 2001, pp. 1-40.

Klinkner, Philip A. The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Book Details

Kraut, Alan M. The Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society, 1880-1921. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1982.

Lagemann, Ellen Condliffe and Miller, Lamar P., eds. Brown v. Board of Education: The Challenge for Today's Schools. New York: Teachers College Press, 1996.

Lee, Sharon M. "Asian Americans: Diverse and Growing." Population Bulletin, June 1998, pp. 1-40.

Legal Developments Related to Affirmative Action in Higher Education: An Update for College and University Presidents, Trustees, and Administrators. Washington, D.C.: American Council on Education, 1999.
Available in PDF format on the website.

Lewis, John and D'Orso, Michael. Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.

Littman, Mark S. A Statistical Portrait of the United States: Social Conditions and Trends. Lanham, MD: Bernan Press, 1998.

Loury, Glenn C. One by One from the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America. New York: Free Press, 1995.

Lukas, J. Anthony. Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families. New York: Knopf, 1985.

McNamara, Robert P.; Tempenis, Maria; and Walton, Beth. Crossing the Line: Interracial Couples in the South. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.

McWhorter, John H. Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America. New York: Free Press, 2000.
Chapter One: The Cult of Victimology.

Martin, Philip and Midgley, Elizabeth. "Immigration to the United States: Journey to an Uncertain Destination." Population Bulletin, September 1994, pp. 1-40.

Marzorati, Gerald and Whittemore, Katharine, eds., with an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Voices in Black and White: Writings on Race in America from Harper's Magazine. New York: Franklin Square Press, 1993.

Masci, David. "Hispanic-Americans' New Clout." The CQ Researcher, September 18, 1998, pp. 809-832.

Meacham, Jon, ed. Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Random House, 2001. Book Info

Millman, Joel. The Other Americans: How Immigrants Renew Our Country, Our Economy, and Our Values. New York: Viking, 1997.

Myers, Samuel L., Jr. ed. Civil Rights and Race Relations in the Post Reagan-Bush Era. Westport, CT: Praeger Press, 1997.

Myrdal, Gunnar et al. An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. New York: Harper, 1944.
(See also An American Dilemma Revisited above, which re-examines the themes in this classic study.)

New Strategist Editors, eds. Racial and Ethnic Diversity: Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Whites. 3rd ed. Ithaca, NY: New Strategist, 2000.
Book Details

New York Times Correspondents, ed. How Race is Lived in America: Pulling Together, Pulling Apart. New York: Times Books, 2001. Book Details

O'Hearn, Claudine C., ed. Half and Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural. New York: Pantheon Books, 1998.

Olson, Lynne. Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830-1970. New York: Scribner, 2001.
Chapter One: "Far More Terrible for Women".

Ong, Paul M. The State of Asian Pacific America: Transforming Race Relations. Los Angeles: Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc., 2000.
The Executive Summary is available online in PDF; the full report can be ordered from LEAP.

Orfield, Gary, ed. with Michal Kurlaender. Diversity Challenged: Evidence on the Impact of Affirmative Action. Cambridge, MA: Civil Rights Project, Harvard University and the Harvard Education Publishing Group, 2001.

Orfield, Gary and Yun, John T. Resegregation in American Schools. Cambridge, MA: The Civil Rights Project, Harvard University, 1999.
Available on the web.

Patterson, James T. Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and It's Troubled Legacy. New York: Oxford, 2001.

Patterson, Orlando. The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in America's "Racial" Crisis. Washington, DC: Civitas/Counterpoint, 1998.

Payne, Richard J. Getting Beyond Race: The Changing American Culture. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998.

Portes, Alejandro and Rumbaut, Ruben G. Immigrant America: A Portrait. 2d ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Post, Robert and Rogin, Michael, eds. Race and Representation: Affirmative Action. New York: Zone Books, 1998.

Reaching the Top: A Report of the National Task Force on Minority High Achievement. New York: College Board Publications, 1999.
Executive Summary and complete report in PDF are available at the College Board web site.

Sarat, Austin, ed., Race, Law, and Culture: Reflections on Brown v. Board of Education. New York: Oxford, 1997.

Schneier, Marc. Shared Dreams : Martin Luther King Jr. and the Jewish Community. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, 1999. Book Details

Shipler, David K. A Country of Strangers: Black and White in America. New York: Knopf, 1997.

Shull, Steven A. American Civil Rights Policy from Truman to Clinton: The Role of Presidential Leadership. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1999.

Simms, Margaret V., ed. Economic Perspectives of Affirmative Action. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1995.
Sponsored by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. Book Details

Simpson, Andrea Y. The Tie That Binds: Identity and Political Attitudes in the Post-Civil Rights Generation. New York: New York University Press, 1998.

Skrentny, John David. The Ironies of Affirmative Action: Politics, Culture, and Justice in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Sleeper, Jim. Liberal Racism. New York: Viking, 1997.

Smelser, Neil J., Wilson, William Julius, and Mitchell, Faith., eds. America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences. Washington: National Academy Press, 2001.
vol. 1 and vol. 2

Smith, James P. and Edmonston, Barry., eds. The Immigration Debate: Studies on the Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects on Immigration. Washington: National Academy Press, 1998.
Chapter 10, "The Impact of Recent Immigration on Population Redistribution within the United States," was written by William H. Frey and Kao-Lee Liaw.

Smith, James P. and Edmonston, Barry., eds. The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press,1997.

Spann, Girardeau A. The Law of Affirmative Action: Twenty-five Years of Supreme Court Decisions on Race and Remedies. New York: New York University Press, 2000.

Spain, Daphne. America on the Edge of Two Centuries. PRB Reports on America, vol. 1, no. 2. Washington, D.C.: Population Reference Bureau, May 1999.

Springer, Ann. Update on Affirmative Action in Higher Education: A Current Legal Overview. Washington, D.C.: American Association of University Professors, September 2001.

Steele, Shelby. The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990.

Steele, Shelby. A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America. New York: HarperCollins, 1998.

Steinhorn, Leonard and Diggs-Brown, Barbara. By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race. New York: Dutton, 1999.

Suro, Roberto. Strangers Among Us: How Latino Immigration Is Transforming America. New York: Knopf, 1998.

Takaki, Ronald T. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. Boston: Little, Brown, 1993.

Takaki, Ronald T. A Larger Memory: Voices of Multicultural America. Boston: Little, Brown, 1998.

Takaki, Ronald T. Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans. Boston: Little, Brown, 1989.

Terkel, Studs. Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel about the American Obsession. New York: New Press, 1992.

Thernstrom, Stephan and Thernstrom, Abigail M. America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.

Tischauer, Leslie V. Black/White Relations in American History: An Annotated Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1998.

Teitelbaum, Michael S. and Winter, Jay. A Question of Numbers: High Migration, Low Fertility, and the Politics of National Identity. New York: Hill & Wang, 1998.

Ungar, Sanford J. First Blood: The New American Immigrants. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.

Waller, James. Face to Face: The Changing State of Racism Across America. New York: Insight Books, 1998.

Washington Post, Kaiser Family Foundation, Harvard University. Race and Ethnicity in 2001: Attitudes, Perceptions, and Experiences. Washington, D.C.: Kaiser Foundation, 2001.

Weinberg, Meyer, comp. Racism in Contemporary America. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. Third in a series of book-length bibliographies on racism.

West, Cornel. Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America. New York: Routledge, 1993.

West, Cornel. Race Matters. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993.

Wilkinson, J. Harvie. One Nation Indivisible: How Ethnic Separatism Threatens America. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1997.