Eight good books about racism, according to Loyola University Theologian Jon Nilson:
John McGreevy, Parish Boundaries (University of Chicago Press)
David Shipler, A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America (Vintage/Random House)
Thomas Shapiro, The Hidden Cost of Being African American (Oxford University Press)
Andrew Hacker, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal (Scribner)
Thandeka, Learning to be White: Money, Race, and God in America (Continuum)
Joe Feagin, Racist America : Roots, Current Realities and Future Reparations (Routledge)
Leonard Steinhorn and Barbara Diggs-Brown, By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race (Penguin Putnam)
James H. Cone, God of the Oppressed (Orbis)