Hi! Thomas Segrue’s Origins of the Urban Crisis looks at how and why Black migrants from the South became concentrated in the Northern inner cities and what led to the 1960s and 70s riots in cities like Detroit… It’s a great overview of the politics and economics of segregation in the 20th century in the north. If you’re interested in segregation in the south, you really still can’t do better than Woodward’s classic The Strange Career of Jim Crow, which is also incredibly readable (it was written in the 50s, so it’s a little old-fashioned, but Woodward was trying to combat the argument of the south that segregation was natural and had always existed, and instead to explain its history).

Lisa McGirr’s Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New Right is also a great book, she looks at the emergence of the new right from Goldwater through the southern strategy to Reagan, although she focuses more on the sort of grassroots side of it.

McGirr and Segrue are both academic writers, but very readable imo.

Alan Brinkley’s Voices of Protest: Coughlin, Long, and the Great Depression was written for a popular audience and has a lot on Huey Long’s run for president versus FDR. Overall it’s really good, although I think he isn’t really fair to the Irish-Americans, but that’s probably partly because my grandparents were Irish-Anerican and they despised Coughlin.