Learning to be white Book

Purchased after I heard the author speak at a UU Church I attended. Still working to get all the way through. Absorbs me completely whenever I pick it up.

T takes us through her own journey researching and interviewing white folk and finding a common thread that many whites are able to identify a crucial moment in their lives where they were called upon by their caretakers or peers to do something unjust to someone identified as non-white as a visible sign of their choice to identify with their white status or to suffer the consequences of not doing so whether that meant withdrawal of love and affection, refusal of basic human needs, or being ostracized by the peer group.

It is not an easy book to read and should not be, but it is groundbreaking. I hope my description has done it at least partial justice.