9 best-selling race books like Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South (New Directions In Southern History) by Kristina DuRocher

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Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South (New Directions In Southern History)

By: Kristina DuRocher

4.16

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

White southerners recognized that the perpetuation of segregation required whites of all ages to up…

If you liked the race plot in Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South (New Directions In Southern History) by Kristina DuRocher , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race

By: Jennifer Ritterhouse

4.16

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

In the segregated South of the early twentieth century, unwritten rules guided every aspect of indi… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Ritterhouse's Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race book and Kristina DuRocher's Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South (New Directions In Southern History)

  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
  • sociology
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2. The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood

By: None , Tommy J. Curry

4.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Tommy J. Curry's provocative book The Man-Not is a justification for Black Male Studies. He posits … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
  • sociology
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3. And the Mountains Echoed

By: Khaled Hosseini

4.07

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one...Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Par… read more

Similar categories in Khaled Hosseini's And the Mountains Echoed book and Kristina DuRocher's Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South (New Directions In Southern History)

"Who rebels with mathematics?"

-Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

"Even your graffiti artists spray Rumi on the walls"

-Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

"It was you Nabi. It was always you. Didn't you know?"

-Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

"these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them."

-Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

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4. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

By: Timothy Egan

4.38

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

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5. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

By: David W. Blight

4.15

Format: 888 pages, Hardcover

As a young man, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was … read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Douglass told white northern voters that 'The blood of the slave is on your garments. You have said that slavery is better than freedom. That war is better than peace. And that cruelty is better than…"

-David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

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6. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

By: Ned Blackhawk

4.18

Format: 596 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essentia… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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7. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

By: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

4.29

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bri… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"Historians who explore slavery's relationship to capitalism generally focus on the roles that men played in the development of both. But if we considered the very real possibility that some of the en…"

-Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

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8. Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980

By: Rick Perlstein

4.34

Format: 1107 pages, Hardcover

A complex portrait of President Ronald Reagan that charts the rise of the modern conservative brand… read more

Similar categories in Rick Perlstein's Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 book and Kristina DuRocher's Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South (New Directions In Southern History)

  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of f… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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10. Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History

By: Richard Thompson Ford

3.85

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A “sharp and entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) exploration of fashion through the ages that a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
Cover of Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity by Donald Yacovone

11. Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity

By: Donald Yacovone

4.09

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A powerful exploration of the past and present arc of America’s white supremacy—from the country’s … read more

Similar categories in Donald Yacovone's Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity book and Kristina DuRocher's Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South (New Directions In Southern History)

  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
Cover of Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South (New Directions In Southern History) by Kristina DuRocher

12. Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South (New Directions In Southern History)

By: Kristina DuRocher

4.16

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

White southerners recognized that the perpetuation of segregation required whites of all ages to up… read more

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  • race
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  • nonfiction
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  • 20th century
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11 must-read history books like Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South (New Directions In Southern History) by Kristina DuRocher

Transform Your Habits

Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race

Jennifer Ritterhouse

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood

None , Tommy J. Curry

4.20

Transform Your Habits

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Timothy Egan

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

David W. Blight

4.15

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11 Top audiobook books like Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein

Transform Your Habits

The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

Greg Grandin

4.29

Transform Your Habits

G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

Beverly Gage

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980

Rick Perlstein

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Watergate: A New History

Garrett M. Graff

4.49

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