Background Reading
Loury, Glen C. The Anatomy of Racial Inequality. Harvard University Press, 2002
Cose, Ellis. Color-Blind: Seeing Beyond Race in a Race-Obsessed World.
Harper Perennial, 1997.Robinson, Randall. The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks. The Penguin Group, 2000.
Bell, Ella L.J., and Stella M. Nkomo. Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity. Harvard Business School Press, 2001.
Correspondents of The New York Times. How Race is Lived in America: Pulling Together, Pulling Apart. Times Books, 2001.
Williams, Mark A. The 10 Lenses: Your Guide to Living and Working in a Multicultural World. Capital Books, 2001.
Williams, Lena. It’s the Little Things: Everyday Interactions that Anger, Annoy, and Divide the Races. Harcourt, 2000.
Hanchett, Thomas W. Sorting Out the New South City: Race, Class and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875 – 1975. University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Putnam, Robert D. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. Simon & Schuster, 2000.
Cohen, Don, and Laurence Prusak. In Good Company: How Social Capital Makes Organizations Work. Harvard Business School Press, 2001.
Blackwell, Angela Glover, Stewart Kwoh and Manuel Pastor. Searching for the Uncommon Common Ground: New Dimensions on Race in America. W.W. Norton & Company, 2002.
Gibbs, Jewelle Taylor. Race and Justice: Rodney King & O.J. Simpson in a House Divided. Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1996.
Fredrickson, George M. Racism: A Short History. Princeton University Press, 2002.
Perlmutter, Philip. Legacy of Hate: A Short History of Ethnic, Religious and Racial Prejudice in America. M.E. Sharpe, 1999.