A compilation of books and material that are major sources for my work and politics

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Anderson, Carol. 2017. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide. New York: Bloomsbury.

Anderson, Carol. 2018. One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Anzaldua, Gloria. 1987. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books.

Alexander, Michelle. 2012. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: The New Press.

Alexander-Floyd, Nikol G. 2007. Gender, Race and Nationalism in Contemporary Black Politics. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Alexander-Floyd, Nikol G. 2012. “Disappearing Acts: Reclaiming Intersectionality in the Social Sciences in a Post-Black Feminist Era.” Feminist Formations, Vol. 24, No.1 (Spring 2012): 1-25.

Ayala, Cesar and Rafael Bernabe. 2007. Puerto Rico in the American Century: A History Since 1898. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press.

Baptist, Edward E. 2014. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. New York: Basic Books.

Barreto, Matt and Gary M. Segura. 2014. Latino America: How America’s Most Dynamic Population is Poised to Transform the Politics of the Nation. New York: Public Affairs.

Bedolla, Lisa Garcia. 2005. Fluid Borders: Latino Power, Identity, and Politics in Los Angeles. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Bedolla, Lisa Garcia and Melissa R. Michelson. 2012. Mobilizing Inclusion: Transforming the Electorate through Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Bejarano, Christina E. 2013. The Latino Gender Gap in U.S. Politics. New York: Routledge.

Beltran, Cristina. 2010. The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Blackmon, Douglas A. 2008. Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. New York: Anchor Books.

Bloom, Joshua and Waldo E. Martin, Jr. 2016. Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. 2018. Racism without Racists: Colorblind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America. New York: Rowman & Littlefield.

Bratton, Kathleen A. 2007. “Agenda Setting and African American Women in State Legislatures.” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, 28:3: 71-96.

Brilliant, Mark. 2010. The Color of America Has Changed: How Racial Diversity Shaped Civil Rights Reform in California 1941-1978. New York: Oxford University Press.

Brown, Nadia. 2014. Sisters in the Statehouse: Black Women and Legislative Decision Making. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Brown, Wendy. 2015. Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution. Cambridge: Zone Books.

Browning, Rufus P. et. al. 1984. Protest Is Not Enough: The Struggle for Blacks and Hispanics for Equality in Urban Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Cacho, Lisa Marie. 2012. Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected. New York: New York University Press.

Carter, Niambi Michele. 2019. American While Black: African Americans, Immigration, an the Limits of Citizenship. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Chacon, Justin Akers and Mike Davis. 2018. No One is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border. New York: Haymarket.

Cheng, Wendy. 2013. The Changes Next Door To The Diazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Coble, Dorothy Sue. Edited. 2007. The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor. Ithaca: Cornel University Press.

Cohen, Cathy J. 1999. The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Cohen, Cathy J. Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Collins, Patricia Hill. 2000. Black Feminist Thought. New York: Routledge Classics.

Collins, Patricia Hill. 1989. “The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought.” Signs 14, No. 4 (Summer, 1989): 745-773.

Connolly, N.B.D. 2014. A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Cooper, Melinda. 2017. Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism. Brooklyn: Zone Books.

Golash-Boza, Tanya Maria. 2015. Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor, and Global Capitalism. New York: New York University Press.

Crenshaw, Kimberle. 1989. “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics.” University of Chicago Legal Forum, Volume 1989, Issue1, Article 8.

Dawson, Michael. 1994. Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American Politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Dawson, Michael. 2013. Blacks in and out of the Left. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Davis, Angela Y. 2016.  Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement. Chicago: Haymarket Books.

Davis, Angela Y. 1981. Women, Race and Class. New York: Vintage Books.

Davis, Angela. Edited. 2018. Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment. New York: Vintage Books.

Davis, Angela. 2003. Are Prisons Obsolete? New York: Seven Stores Press.

Davis, Mike. 2018. Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the U.S. Working Class. New York: Verso.

Desmond, Matthew. 2016. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. New York: Broadway Books.

Du Bois, W.E.B. 1935. Black Reconstruction in America, 1869-1880. New York: The Free Press.

Estes, Nick. 2019. Our History Is The Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance. New York: Verso.

Fanon, Frantz. 1963. The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press.

Fischer, Mark. 2009. Capitalist Realism? Is There No Alternative? Washington D.C.: Zero Books.

Fletcher, Jr., Bill and Fernando Gapasin. 2008. Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Fortner, Michael Javen. 2015. Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Forman Jr., James. 2018. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Fraser, Nancy. 2019. The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born. New York: Verso.

Francis, Megan Ming. 2014. Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Fraga, Bernard L. 2018. The Turnout Gap: Race, Ethnicity, and Political Inequality in a Diversifying America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Fraga, Luis Ricardo, et. al. 2010. Latinos Lives in America: Making it Home. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Fraga, Luis Ricardo. 2007. “Gender and Ethnicity: Patterns of Electoral Success and Legislative Advocacy Among Latina and Latino States Officials in Four States.” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy. 28:3: 121-145.

Frymer Paul. 2010. Uneasy Alliances: Race and Party Competition in America. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Frymer, Paul. 2017. Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Gerring, John. 2004. “What Is a Case Study and What Is It Good For?” The American Political Science Review, Vol. 98, No. 2 (May 2004): 341-354.

George, Alexander L. & Andrew Bennett. 2005. Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Gonzalez, Juan. 2011. Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America. New York: Penguin Books.

Gramsci, Antonio. 1971. Selections from the Prison Notebooks. New York: International Publishers.

Grandin, Greg. 2019. The End of Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America. New York: Henry Holt and Company.

Greer, Christina M. 2013. Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream. New York: Oxford University Press.

Gillion, Daniel Q. 2013. The Political Power of Protest: Minority Activism and Shifts in Public Policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Haider, Asad. 2018. Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump. New York: Verso.

Hancock, Ange-Marie. 2004. The Politics of Disgust: The Public Identity of the Welfare Queen. New York: NYU Press.

Hawkesworth, Mary. 2003. “Congressional Enactments of Race-Gender: Toward a Theory of Raced-Gendered Institutions.” The American Political Science Review, Vol. 97, No. 4 (Nov. 2003): 529-550.

Harvey, David. 2017. Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hajnal, Zoltan & Taeku Lee. 2011. Why Americans Don’t Join the Party: Race, Immigration, and the Failure (Of Political Parties) To Engage the Electorate. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Hero, Rodney E. 1992. Latinos and the U.S. Political System: Two-Tiered Pluralism. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Hero, Rodney E. and Robert Preuhs. 2013. Black-Latino Relations in U.S. National Politics: Beyond Conflict or Cooperation. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Hertel-Fernandez, Alex. 2019. State Capture: How Conservative Activists, Big Businesses, and Wealthy Donors Reshaped the American States---and the Nation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

HoSang, Daniel Martinez & Joseph E. Lowndes. 2019. Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks. 1992. “African-American Women’s History and the Metalanguage of Race.” Signs, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Winter 1992): 251-274.

Isoke, Zenzele. 2013. Urban Black Women and the Politics of Resistance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Jacobson, Matthew Frye. 1998. Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Jennings, James. 1992. The Politics of Black Empowerment: The Transformation of Black Activism in Urban America. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.

Jennings, James. Edited. 1994. Blacks, Latinos, and Asian in Urban America: Status and Prospects for Politics and Activism. Westport: Praeger Publishers.

Johnson, Walter. 2020. The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States. New York: Basic Books.

Jones, Martha S. 2018. Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Joseph, Peniel E. 2006. Waiting ‘Til The Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America. New York: Henry Holt and Company.

Katznelson, Ira. 2014. Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

Katznelson, Ira. 2006. When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

King, Desmond S. & Rogers M. Smith. 2005. “Racial Orders in American Political Development.” The American Political Science Review, Vol. 99, No. 1 (Feb. 2005): 75-92.

King, Desmond S. & Rogers M. Smith. 2014. “’Without Regard to Race’: Critical Ideational Development in Modern American Politics.” The Journal of Politics, Vol. 76, No.4, October 2014: 958-971.

King, Deborah. 1998. “Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of a Black Feminist Ideology.” Signs, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Autumn 1998): 42-72.

Kim, Claire Jean. 2000. Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Kuttner, Robert. 2018. Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

Kun, Josh and Laura Pulido. Edited. 2014. Black and Brown in Los Angeles: Beyond Conflict and Coalition. Berkeley: University of California Press.  

Lee, Erika. 2015. The Making of Asian America: A History. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Lee, Taeku and Zoltan L. Hajnal. 2011. Why Americans Don’t Join The Party: Race, Immigration and the Failure (of Political Parties) to Engage the Electorate. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Lichtenstein, Nelson. 2013. State of the Union: A Century of American Labor. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Lieberman, Robert. 1998. Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Lipsitz, George. 2011. How Racism Takes Place. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Lopez, Ian Haney. 2019. Merge: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America. New York: The New Press.

Maira, Sunaina Marr. 2009. Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire after 9/11. Durham: Duke University Press.

Marx, Anthony. 1998. Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa, and Brazil. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Marx, Karl. 1976. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Vol. 1. New York: Penguin Books.

MacLean, Nancy. 2017. Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America. New York: Penguin Books.

Mak, Tim. 2012. “Barry: Remarks ‘out of contexts.’” Politico, April 5, 2012, https://www.politico.com/story/2012/04/marion-barry-dirty-asian-stores-074866.

Massey, Douglas S. and Nany A. Denton. 1993. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Masuoka, Natalie and Jane Junn. 2013. The Politics of Belonging: Race, Public Opinion, and Immigration. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Matsuda, Mari. 1996. Where Is Your Body? And Other Essays on Race, Gender, and the Law. Boston: Beacon Press.

Marable, Manning. 2016. Beyond Black and White: From Civil Rights to Barack Obama. New York: Verso.

Marable, Manning. 1983. How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problem in Race, Political Economy, and Society. Chicago: Haymarket Books.

McAlevey, Jane F. 2016. No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

McCoy, Drew R. 1980. The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

McDonald, Terence T. 2014. “Poverty rate inches up in Hudson County, Jersey City.” The Jersey Journal, Sept. 19, 2014, https://www.nj.com/hudson/2014/09/poverty_rate_in_hudson_county_inches_up_in_hudson_county_jersey_city.html

Morales, Ed. 2018. Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture. New York: Verso.

Moraga, Cherri and Gloria Anzaldua edited. 2015. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Albany: SUNY Press.

Morel, Domingo. 2018. Takeover: Race, Education, and American Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press.

Molina, Natalia et. al. edited. 2019. Relational Formations of Race: Theory, Method and Practice. Oakland: University of California Press.

Miller, Lisa L. 2008. The Perils of Federalism: Race, Poverty, and the Politics of Crime Control. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Miller, Lisa L. “The Use of Case Studies in Law and Social Science Research.” Annual Review of Law and Social Science. 2018. 14:381–96.

Minta, Michael D. 2012. “Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Political Representation in the United States.” Politics & Gender, 8(4) 2012.

Ngai, Mae. 2004. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Alien and the Making of Modern America. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

O’Dell, Jack. 2012. Climbin’ Jacob’s Ladder: The Black Freedom Movement Writings of Jack O’Dell. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Omi, Michael and Howard Winant. 1994. Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s. New York: Routledge.

Okamoto, Dina G. 2014. Redefining Race: Asian American Panethnicity and Shifting Ethnic Boundaries. New York: Russell Safe Foundation.

Orey, Byron D’Andra. 2007. “Race & Gender Matter: Refining Models of Legislative Policy-Making in State Legislatures.” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, 28:3: 97-119.

Pachirat, Timothy. 2011. Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter an the Politics of Sight. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Phillips, Steve. 2016. Brown Is The New White: How the Demographic Revolution has Created a New American Majority. New York: The New Press.

Pinderhughes, Dianne M. 1987. Race and Ethnicity in Chicago Politics: A Reexamination of Pluralist Theory. Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

Piven, Frances Fox and Richard Cloward. 1978. Poor People’s Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail. New York: Vintage.

Pulido, Laura. 2006. Black, Brown, Yellow & Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Ragin, Charles S. & Howard S. Becker. 1992. What Is A Case? Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ransby, Barbara. 2018. Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the 21^st Century. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Reed Jr., Adolph. 1999. Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Robinson, Cedric J. 2000. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Roberts, Dorothy. 1997. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. New York: Pantheon Books.

Roediger, David R. 1991. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class. New York: Verso. 

Roth, Wendy D. 2012. Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Rogers, Reul R. 2006. Afro-Caribbean Immigrants and the Politics of Incorporation: Ethnicity, Exception, or Exit. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Rothstein, Richard. 2017. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

Saito, Leland T. 1998. Race and Politics: Asian Americans, Latinos, and Whites in a Los Suburb. Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

Sampaio, Anna. 2015. Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants: Race, Gender, and Immigration Politics in the Age of Security. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Sandoval, Chela. 2000. Methodology of the Oppressed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Schram, Sanford. 2015. The Return of Ordinary Capitalism: Neoliberalism, Precarity, Occupy. New York: Oxford University Press.

Schatz, Edward. Edited. 2009. Political Ethnography: What Immersion Contributes to the Study of Power. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Spence, Lester K. 2015. Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics. Brooklyn: Punctum Books.

Stein, Samuel. 2019. Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State. New York: Verso.

Stone, Clarence. 1989. Regime Politics: Governing Atlanta 1946-1988. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.

Stone, Clarence and Robert P. Stoker. edited. 2015. Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era: Revitalization Politics in the Postindustrial City. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Smith, Candis Watts. 2014. Black Mosaic: The Politics of Black Pan-Ethnic Diversity. New York: New York University Press.

Singh, Nikhil Pal. 2017. Race and America’s Long War. Oakland: University of California Press.

Tang, Eric. 2015. Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the New York City Hyperghetto. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. 2016. From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. Chicago: Haymarket Books.

Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. 2019. Race For Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press.

Telles, Edward, et. al. edited. 2011. Just Neighbors? Research on African American and Latino Relations in the United States. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Threadcraft, Shatema. 2016. Intimate Justice: The Black Female Body and the Body Politic. New York: Oxford University Press.

Trotter, Jr., Joe William. 2019. Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Trounstine, Jessica. 2018. Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Tyson, Vanessa C. 2016. Twists of Fate: Multiracial Coalition and Minority Representation in the US House of Representatives. New York: Oxford University Press.

Waldinger, Roger.  1996. Still the Promised City? African-Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New York. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Waters, Mary. 1999.Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Wacquant, Loic. 2009. Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity. Durham: Duke University Press.

Wong, Janelle et. al. 2011. Asian American Political Participation: Emerging Constituents and Their Political Identities. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Wilkinson, Betina Cutaia. 2015. Partners or Rivals? Power and Latino, Black and White Relations in the Twenty-First Century. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.

Frasure-Yokley, Lorrie. 2015. Racial and Ethnic Politics in American Suburbs. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Zepeda-Millan, Chris. 2017. Latino Mass Mobilization: Immigration, Racialization, and Activism. New York: Cambridge University Press.