Books by Monica Muñoz Martinez
“In this book, Martinez is interested in a largely ignored example of racial violence—the mass lynching of Mexicans and Mexican Americans in South Texas in the early 1900s. This book both gets us beyond a binary, black-white model of white supremacy, which is a complex phenomenon that impacts a multitude of racial and ethnic groups. And it also shows the lingering power of white supremacist history to shape lives, futures, and more across generations, even when people no longer hold it as an individual ideology.” Read more...
The best books on White Supremacy
Kathleen Belew, Historian
Interviews where books by Monica Muñoz Martinez were recommended
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What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America
by Peggy Pascoe -
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Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race
by Matthew Frye Jacobson -
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Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
by Elizabeth Hinton -
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The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
by Monica Muñoz Martinez
The best books on White Supremacy, recommended by Kathleen Belew
The best books on White Supremacy, recommended by Kathleen Belew
Defined by University of Chicago historian Kathleen Belew, white supremacy is a “broad system of laws, norms and customs that create a society with unequal opportunities for people based on race”. It persists to this day, and has surprising intersections with issues of labor and women’s reproduction. Here, she recommends books for coming to grips with the history of this complex topic.
