Race & Ethnicity

1. Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do

   Claude M. Steele

   The acclaimed social psychologist offers an insider’s look at his research and groundbreaking findings on stereotypes and identity.More

2. Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century

   Hazel Rose Markus, Paula M. L. Moya

   A collection of new essays by an interdisciplinary team of authors that gives a comprehensive introduction to race and ethnicity.More

3. More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City

   William Julius Wilson

   A preeminent sociologist of race explains a groundbreaking new framework for understanding racial inequality, challenging both conservative and liberal dogma.More

4. The Age of Jim Crow

   Jane Dailey

   America’s racial history has been marked by both hard-won progress and sudden reversals of fortune.More

5. The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken: A Search for Food and Family

   Laura Schenone

   A Newsday Best Cookbook of 2007: can a recipe change your life? A quest for an authentic dish reveals a mythic love story and age-old culinary secrets.More

6. Indian Removal

   David Stephen Heidler, Jeanne T. Heidler

   This casebook traces the evolution of U.S. Indian policy from its British Colonial origins to the implementation of removal after 1830.More

7. The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town

   Helmut Walser Smith

   One of the most dramatic explorations of a German town in the grip of anti-Semitic passion ever written.More

8. Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City

   Elijah Anderson

   Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice)More

9. The Mismeasure of Man

   Stephen Jay Gould

   Revised & Expanded

   The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve.More