33. Selected Sources
Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America, by Ayana Byrd and Lori Tharp
Some of My Best Friends are Black, by Tanner Colby
Disintegration, by Eugene Robinson
Sundown Towns, by James Loewen
Slavery by Another Name, by Douglas Blackmon
The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabelle Wilkerson
The Century Cycle, by August Wilson
Men We Reaped, by Jesmyn Ward
The Pact, by Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt, and George Jenkins
The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander
34. Our Black Year, by Maggie Anderson
The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t and Why, by Jabari Asim
“The Case for Reparations”, by Ta neshi Coates. Atlantic Magazine, June 2014
The Strange Career of Jim Crow by Vann C. Woodward
The Hidden Cost of Being African American, by Thomas M. Shapiro.
Who’s Afraid of Post Blackness? by Toure
The Covenant With Black America, edited by Tavis Smiley and Cornel West
Is Bill Cosby Right? : Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost its Mind? by Michael Eric
Dyson
The Spike Lee Reader, Edited by Paula J. Massood
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Tatum
When Affirmative Action Was White, by Ira Kaznelson