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Racism in literature

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• "Little Black Sambo" and the Legacy of Image in African American Literature for Children (1994), by Wande Knox Goncalves (PDF at ed.gov)
• Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Jon Woodson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Little Black Sambo, A Closer Look: A History of Helen Bannerman's The Story of Little Black Sambo and its Popularity/Controversy in the United States (New York: Racism and Sexism Resource Center for Educators, c1976), by Phyllis J. Yuill (PDF with commentary at ed.gov)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Elite Discourse and Racism (Newbury Park, CA et al: Sage Publications, c1993), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at discourses.org)
• Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018), by Calvin L. Warren
  • PDF at Open Emory
  • multiple formats via Figshare
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Communicating Racism: Ethnic Prejudice in Thought and Talk (Newbury Park, CA et al: Sage Publications, c1987), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• No Archive Will Restore You (Earth; Punctum Books, c2018), by Julietta Singh (PDF with commentary at Punctum Books)
• How the Dismal Science Got its Name: Classical Economics and the Ur-Text of Racial Politics (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by David M. Levy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Feeding the Other: Whiteness, Privilege, and Neoliberal Stigma in Food Pantries (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019), by Rebecca De Souza (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• On Productive Shame, Reconciliation, and Agency (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v16; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2016), ed. by Suzana Milevska (PDF with commentary in Austria)
• Rahowa! This Planet is All Ours (c1987), by Ben Klassen (PDF at creativityalliance.com)
• Building a Whiter and Brighter World (c1986), by Ben Klassen (PDF at creativityalliance.com)
• Expanding Creativity: An Idea Whose Time Has Come (c1985), by Ben Klassen (PDF at creativityalliance.com)
• Red Intrigue and Race Turmoil (New York: The Alliance, 1958), by Zygmund Dobbs, contrib. by Archibald B. Roosevelt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Creating White Australia (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2009), ed. by Jane Carey and Claire McLisky (HTML and PDF with commentary in Australia)

• Hate and the Internet (New York: American Jewish Committee, ca. 1999), by Kenneth S. Stern (PDF at ajcarchives.org)

• Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care (2003), ed. by Brian D. Smedley, Adrienne Y. Stith, and Alan R. Nelson (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Border Thinking: Disassembling Histories of Racialized Violence (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v21; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2018), ed. by Marina Gržinić (PDF with commentary in Austria)
• Everyday Fears: A Survey of Violent Hate Crimes in Europe and North America (New York: Human Rights First, 2005), by Michael McClintock (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Black and White (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2008), by Lewis Shiner (PDF at lewisshiner.com)
• We Can't Run Away From Here (New York et al.: Vantage Press, c1958), by Robert Martin Screen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Chequer Board (c1947), by Nevil Shute (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Samantha Among the Colored Folks: "My Ideas on the Race Problem" (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1894), by Marietta Holley, illust. by E. W. Kemble
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1905), by Thomas Dixon, illust. by Arthur Ignatius Keller
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan (illustrated with scenes from "The Birth of a Nation"; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, ca. 1915), by Thomas Dixon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
• Imperium in Imperio, by Sutton E. Griggs
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, by Harriet E. Wilson (Gutenberg text)

• Racism and the Press (London and New York: Routledge, c1991), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at discourses.org)
• Institutional Racism and the Police: Fact or Fiction? (c2000), ed. by David G. Green (PDF at Civitas)

• Her Father's Daughter, by Gene Stratton-Porter (Gutenberg text)
• Her Father's Daughter (Garden City, NY and Toronto: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1921), by Gene Stratton-Porter, illust. by Dudley Gloyne Summers (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Drumming up Resentment: The Anti-Indian Movement in Montana (c2000), by Montana Human Rights Network (PDF at mhrn.org)

• Racism and the Press (London and New York: Routledge, c1991), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at discourses.org)

• Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!, by Revolutionary Communist Group (Great Britain) (partial serial archives)

• Responding to Hate and Bias at School: A Guide for Administrators, Counselors and Teachers (updated edition; Montgomery, AL: Teaching Tolerance, ca. 2006), by Brian Willoughby (HTML and PDF with commentary at tolerance.org)

• Calendar of Coercion (1964), by Congress of Racial Equality (page images at Preservica)
• The Jim Crow Car: or, Denouncement of Injustice Meted Out to the Black Race (Toronto: Hill Printing Co., 1898), by J. C. Coleman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• One America in the 21st Century: Forging a New Future (with appendices and related reports; 1998), by President's Initiative on Race Advisory Board, contrib. by John Hope Franklin (PDF files with commentary at archives.gov)
• The Religion of White Rage: White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Black Racial Progress (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, c2020), ed. by Stephen C. Finley, Biko Mandela Gray, and Lori Latrice Martin (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Institutional Racism and Community Competence (1982), ed. by Oscar A. Barbarin, Paul R. Good, O. Martin Pharr, and Judith A. Siskind (page images at HathiTrust)
• Racism in America and How to Combat It (1970), by United States Commission on Civil Rights, contrib. by Anthony Downs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deflective Whiteness: Co-Opting Black and Latinx Identity Politics (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c2022), by Hannah Noel (PDF at OAPEN)
• Black Rage Confronts the Law (New York: New York University Press, c1997), by Paul Harris (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism: The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by Jody David Armour (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Mark One or More: Civil Rights in Multiracial America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), by Kim M. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Credo for Rioters and Looters, by Eldridge Cleaver (PDF page images at MSU)
• Everyday Fears: A Survey of Violent Hate Crimes in Europe and North America (New York: Human Rights First, 2005), by Michael McClintock (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Why Negroes Should Oppose the War (published under "J. R. Johnson" pseudonym; New York: Pioneer Publishers, ca. 1940), by C. L. R. James
  • page images at Pitt
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Making the White Man's West: Whiteness and the Creation of the American West (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, c2016), by Jason Pierce
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Literature Matters (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016), by J. Hillis Miller, ed. by Monika Reif-Hülser (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2013), by Theodore L. Steinberg (multiple formats with commentary at milneopentextbooks.org)
• Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Essays in the History of Ideas (originally published 1948; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arthur O. Lovejoy (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Humanistic Studies (partial serial archives)
• Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859), by Frederick William Robertson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Relation of Literature to Life, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
• Saturday Papers: Essays on Literature From the Literary Review (first (and only known) volume of selections from The Literary Review of the New York Post; New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Henry Seidel Canby, William Rose Benét, and Amy Loveman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opinions, Literary and Otherwise (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by Henry W. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.