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
Possessive Investment in Whiteness
Racial formation in the United States
Whiteness of a Different Color
Gender and Jim Crow
Origins of the Urban Crisis
Black reconstruction in America 1860-1880
Racism without Racists
Race Rebels
Hammer and hoe
American Slavery, 1619-1877
Darker Nations
Roll, Jordan, Roll
The Racial Contract
The history of White people
When Affirmative Action Was White
The Many-Headed Hydra
Cold War Civil Rights
White Trash
Uprooting Racism
Stayin' Alive
Black Looks