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Jennifer Ritterhouse explores how individuals developed racial self-consciousness in the segregated South of the early twentieth century.

"One of the enduring images from the 2012 presidential campaign was the demise of the white American male voter as a dominant force in the political landscape. Bellowing white men fill the talk-radio airwaves. Why are they so angry? Michael Kimmel has spent hundreds of hours in the company of these angry white men-from white supremacists to men's rights activists to young students-in pursuit of an answer. Kimmel proposes a theory of aggrieved entitlement: a sense that the benefits to which white men long believed themselves entitled have been snatched from them. Kimmel locates the increase in anger with a growing social, political, and economic gender gap, twinned with an ideology of masculinity that makes America's white men feel empty and alone. Although they have been facing years of underemployment and wage stagnation, mainstream American discourse rarely discuss class issues. So when America's white men feel they've lived their lives the "right" way-worked hard-and still do not get the rewards to which they believe they are entitled, then they have to blame somebody else. Anybody else"--.

"The Preppy Handbook" meets "PostSecret," in this cultural manifesto for a new generation. Imagine Sarah Silverman sitting down in your living room describing what makes white people tick. That is Stuff White People Like. Christian Lander has the inside scoop, from coffee to farmers markets to bumper stickers. You will laugh out loud, and you just might, at times, think the joke is on you.Lander and his blog stuffwhitepeoplelike.com have already been profiled by NPR and "The Los Angeles Times," adding to the success of the Internet phenomenon.

Tells the history of the United States from the Native American perspective.

Explores the increasingly complex role race plays on the political and social landscape of the United States.

The author's memoir of growing up white in a predominantly African-American and Latino neighborhood of housing projects on New York's Lower East Side during the 1970s and '80s.

A study of the making of racism, showing how white Southerners banded together after the Civil War to establish their dominance over their former slaves, and discussing how that perception of superiority has continued through the twentieth century.