That post of mine that is linked to in the OP is about three years out of date, and it has been bothering me. So, here's an update:
Books I've read—a few of these are less
directly about the subject of race (though they usually disproportionately affect black people) but might be relevant to important discussions or provide relevant historical context or whatever. You'll probably be able to identify which books those are just by the titles.
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander
- A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War, by Stephen V. Ash
- The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, by Edward E. Baptist
- Loathing Lincoln: An American Tradition From the Civil War To the Present, by John McKee Barr
- Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison, by Nell Bernstein
- Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, by Douglas A. Blackmon
- Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, by David W. Blight
- Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States, by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
- Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon, by Bronwen Dickey (no, seriously)
- Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America, by Ayana Byrd
- Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
etc.
