What to Read After The Wages of Whiteness
Readers who loved The Wages of Whiteness by David R. Roediger keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Wages of Whiteness is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Wages of Whiteness
American slavery, American freedom
City of Women
How the Irish became White
Possessive Investment in Whiteness
Racial formation in the United States
Gender and Jim Crow
Whiteness of a Different Color
Origins of the Urban Crisis
Black reconstruction in America 1860-1880
Race Rebels
Racism without Racists
Hammer and hoe
Darker Nations
American Slavery, 1619-1877
Roll, Jordan, Roll
Cold War Civil Rights
Stayin' Alive
White Trash
Making Whiteness
When Affirmative Action Was White
The Racial Contract
Love and Theft
The history of White people
Black Looks