1. A) Books and Articles

Abrajano, Marisa, and Zoltan L Hajnal. White Backlash: Immigration, Race, and American Politics. Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015.

Aistrup, Joseph A. The Southern Strategy Revisited: Republican Top-Down Advancement in the South. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996.

Belz, Herman. Abraham Lincoln, Constitutionalism, and Equal Rights in the Civil War Era. New York: Fordham University Press. 1997.

Carter, Dan T. From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution 1963–1994. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University. 1992.

Collions, Bruce. "Southern Secession in 1860–1861." In Themes of the American Civil War: The War Between the States, edited by Susan-Mary Grant and Brian Holden Reid, 39-61. New York: Routledge, 2010.

Delgado, Richard, and Jean Stefancic. Critical Race Theory: An Introduction. New York: New York University Press. 2001.

Forsythe, David P. Human Rights in International Relations. 3rd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Goolsby, Laura. “Why International Law Should Matter to Black Lives Matter: A Draft Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on Behalf of the Family of Eric Garner.” Journal of Law and Social Change 21, no (2018): 29-51.

Horton, James Oliver, and Lois E Horton. Slavery and the Making of America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Moravcsik, Andrew. “The Paradox of U.S. Human Rights Policy. ”In American Exceptionalism and Human Rights, edited by Michael Ignatieff, 147-196. London: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Nazifpour, Ali. Estesna-garayi va Siasat-e Khareji-ye Iran [Exceptionalism and Iran's Foreign Policy]. Tehran: Kavir Publication, 2022.

Polakoff, Keith Ian. The Politics of Inertia: The Election of 1876 and the End of Reconstruction . Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1973.

Rehavi, M Marit, and Sonja B Starr. “Racial Disparity in Federal Criminal Sentences.” Journal of Political Economy 122, no. 6 (2014): 1320-1354.

Sinha, Manisha. The Slave's Cause: a History of Abolition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.

1. B) Websites

Brita Belli, "Racial disparity in police shootings unchanged over 5 years", Yale Website, October 27, 2020, https://news.yale.edu/2020/10/27/racial-disparity-police-shootings-unchanged-over-5-years

CNN, "Biden: The original sin of slavery stains our country today". May 29, 2020, https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/05/29/biden-george-floyd-statement-sot-crn-vpx.cnn

Elizabeth Day, "Black Lives Matter: the birth of a new civil rights movement", the Guardian, July 19, 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/19/ blacklivesmatter-birth-civil-rights-movement.

Geoffrey Skelley, "How Americans Feel About George Floyd’s Death And The Protests", 538, June 5, 2020, https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-americans-feel-about-george-floyds-death-and-the-protests/.

Jake Sullivan, "What Donald Trump and Dick Cheney Got Wrong about America", Atlantic, January 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/01/ yes-america-can-still-lead-the-world/576427/.

Joni Kantor, "For President, a Complex Calculus of Race and Politics", NY Times, March 20, 2012, https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/us/politics/for-president-obama-a-complex-calculus-of-race-and-politics.html

Leslie M. Harris, "I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me", Politico, March 6, 2020, https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/06/ 1619-project-new-york-times-mistake-122248

Michael Crowley and Jennifer Schuessler, "Trump’s 1776 Commission Critiques Liberalism in Report Derided by Historians", NY Times, January 20, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/18/us/politics/trump-1776-commission-report.html

Michael Posner, "Trump Abandons the Human-Rights Agenda", March 26, 2017 https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trump-abandons-the-human-rights-agenda

Nahal Toosi "Blinken to diplomats: It’s OK to admit U.S. flaws when promoting rights", Politico, July 16, 2021, https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/16/ blinken-us-human-rights-499833.

Nahal Toosi, "Biden needs India to counter China, but it comes with a cost", Politico, September 23, 2021, https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/23/biden-modi-india-human-rights-china-514041.

Nikole Hannah-Jones, 2019. "Black History and American Democracy", NY Times, August 14, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/ black-history-american-democracy.html.

Samuel Sinyangwe, "Cities That Reduced Arrests For Minor Offenses Also Saw Fewer Police Shootings", 538, July 26, 2020, https://fivethirtyeight.com/ features/police-arresting-fewer-people-for-minor-offenses-can-help-reduce-police-shootings/.

Ta-Nehisi Coates, "The Case for Reperations", Atlantic, June 2014, https://www. theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631

Zack Beauchamp, "Did critical race theory really swing the Virginia election?", Vox, November 4, 2021, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/11/4/22761168 /virginia-governor-glenn-youngkin-critical-race-theory