Recommended Books on Race, Class and Multicultural concerns from Beacon Press and Skinner House

Beacon Press

Acts of Faith
The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation
Author: Eboo Patel

Can We Talk about Race?
And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation
Author: Beverly Daniel Tatum

The Case For Black Reparations
Author: Boris I. Bittker

The Ethnic Myth
Race, Ethnicity and Class in America
Author: Stephen Steinberg

Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy
as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History
Author: Thomas N. DeWolf

Living with Racism
The Black Middle-Class Experience
Authors: Joe R. Feagin and Melvin P. Sikes

The Missing Class
Portraits of the Near Poor in America
Authors: Katherine Newman and Victor Tan Chen

Not Keeping Up with Our Parents
The Decline of the Professional Middle Class
Author: Nan Mooney

Notes of a Native Son
Author: James Baldwin

Off the Reservation
Reflections on Boundary-Busting Border-Crossing Loose Cannons
Author: Paula Gunn Allen

Race Matters
Author: Cornel West

"They Take Our Jobs!"
And 20 Other Myths about Immigration
Author: Aviva Chomsky

We Are All Suspects Now
Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities after 9/11
Author: Tram Nguyen

Weaving a Family
Untangling Race and Adoption
Author: Barbara Katz Rothman

Where Is Your Body?
And Other Essays on Race, Gender, and the Law
Author: Mari J. Matsuda

Skinner House Website

Call to Selma
Eighteen Days of Witness
Author: Richard D. Leonard

How Much Do We Deserve?
An Inquiry into Distributive Justice
Author: Richard S. Gilbert

Soul Work
Anti-racist Theologies in Dialogue
Editors: Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley and Nancy Palmer Jones

Last updated on Friday, April 18, 2008.