Last Updated: April 3, 2026
The Chosen and the Damned: Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States
by David J. Silverman
A sweeping chronicle placing race at the center of Native American U.S. history.
The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family
by Dorothy Roberts
Dorothy Roberts’ father, an anthropologist, spent her entire childhood working on a book about Black-white marriages–a project he never finished but shaped every aspect of their family life. Rather than finish the book her father never published, Roberts immerses herself in their archive of interviews to trace the story of her parents and to better understand her own.
Through the prism of Black men in Vietnam as well as many other crucial figures of that era, Haygood reveals the tragedies and triumphs, the honor and hypocrisies, the courage and the cowardice that shaped an era and whose repercussions resonate today.
A deeply reported exploration of the violent resurgence of hatred and white supremacy through the lens of Orange County, California, and the story of one brutal murder there that revealed the deep roots of violent bigotry as a bellwether for the country.
Award-winning civil rights historian Matthew F. Delmont weaves together the stories of two Black heroes of the Vietnam War era. Together, these extraordinary accounts expose the contradictions of Black activism and military service during the Vietnam War.