What to Read After Working toward Whiteness
Readers who loved Working toward Whiteness by David R. Roediger keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Working toward 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 Working toward Whiteness
How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?
White Like Me
The Promised Land
Honor Killing
Race
Between Barack and a Hard Place
Queering the Color Line
Cold War Civil Rights
When Affirmative Action Was White
The Age of Migration
How Jews became white folks and what that says about race in America
The Heart of Whiteness
Whiteness of a Different Color
Race, Class, and Gender in the United States
Racial formation in the United States
How capitalism underdeveloped black America
Possessive Investment in Whiteness
There Goes My Everything
Race Rebels
A Different Mirror
Impossible Subjects
The Wages of Whiteness
Debt
Discipline and Punish