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
How the Irish became White
City of women
Whiteness of a Different Color
Racial formation in the United States
Gender and Jim Crow
Racism without Racists
Race Rebels
Black reconstruction in America 1860-1880
Hammer and hoe
American slavery, 1619-1877
Darker Nations
Roll, Jordan, Roll
Cold War Civil Rights
White Trash
Black looks
Making whiteness
When Affirmative Action Was White
Faces at the bottom of the well
The Many-Headed Hydra
Racial Contract
Uprooting racism
How capitalism underdeveloped black America
Stayin' Alive