Desmond King is author (with Rogers Smith) of Still a House Divided: Race and Politics in Obama's America  (2013); Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Originis of Diverse Democracy (2002); and In the Name of Liberalism: Illiberal Social Policy in the USA and Britain (1999). His new book (with Lawrence Jacobs), is Fed Power: the Federal Reserve and the Great Recession (forthcoming).

A relevant essay by Professor King can be found here:Desmond%20King%20Beyond%20discrimination%20-%20chapter%202.pdf

The table of contents for King's new book, When the State Stops: the Unruly Death of Civil Rights Activism, can be found here /sites/secure.lsit.ucsb.edu.hist.d7_labor/files/sitefiles/