Race and Democracy
 - The End of Southern Exceptionalism
- Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South
- Byron E. Shafer, Richard Johnston
- “[Shafer and Johnston] scour reams of electoral returns—this book is a sweet fix for political junkies—to challenge the theory that the Republican Party is nothing more than the remnant of the old conservative Democratic Party.”
—News and Observer
 - A Nation under Our Feet
- Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
- Steven Hahn
- This winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History and the Bancroft Prize is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people.
 - From Protest to Politics
- The New Black Voters in American Elections
- Katherine Tate
- The struggle for civil rights among black Americans has moved into the voting booth. How such a shift came about—and what it means—is revealed in this timely reflection on black presidential politics.
 - Whose Votes Count?
- Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights
- Abigail M. Thernstrom
- Thernstrom analyzes the radical transformation of the Voting Rights Act in the years since its passage and shows how a measure crafted to open the polling booths to southern blacks has evolved into a powerful tool for affirmative action in the electoral sphere.
 - Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy
- Lani Guinier, Gerald Torres
- Guinier (an Obama friend and supporter) and Torres envision a social justice movement where the aim of political race is not merely to remedy racial injustices, but to create truly participatory democracy, where people of all races feel empowered to effect change.
Religion and Democracy
 - Taking Faith Seriously
- Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights
- Mary Jo Bane, Brent Coffin, Richard Higgins
- “A series of case studies designed to demonstrate that the always tricky and sometimes unsolvable puzzles posed by faith in a liberal democracy can best be addressed by appreciating the role that religion actually plays in concrete circumstances.”
—New Republic
 - Religious Freedom and the Constitution
- Christopher L. Eisgruber, Lawrence G. Sager
- “[The authors'] careful attention to the social meaning of symbols, and their nuanced concern with the sociological role and ideological sway of religion in American culture, insures the persuasive force and continuing relevance of their arguments.”
—New Yorker
 - The Dissent of the Governed
- A Meditation on Law, Religion, and Loyalty
- Stephen L. Carter
- “One of America's leading public intellectuals... eloquently rejects the claim that argument from religious morality has no place in public debate...[and] provides an impressive example of how a believer may engage in civil debate with fellow citizens who do not share his faith.” —New York Times Book Review
 - Christianity and American Democracy
- Hugh Heclo
- “Heclo argues that...there is an inherent tension between religious commitment and political allegiance...[and] shows clearly that America's culture wars are just a specific case of the general problem of religion in democratic pluralist polities.” —Times Literary Supplement
 - A Secular Age
- Charles Taylor
- “[For] Taylor, a Roman Catholic as well as one of the world's leading political theorists...the difference between the pre-modern Western world and the modern West is not simply that beliefs held then are no longer accepted today; it is that the entire framework of thought has changed.” —Harper's
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