Racist America: Roots, Current Realities and Future Reparations Book

First, I want to say that this book is an excellent introduction to systemic racism for an undergrad level classroom, even though I only gave this 3 stars. In this since, Feagin's contribution--that is, the notion of "systemic racism"--is crucial to any remedial understanding of race relations in the US. I think this would be a bit more palatable (read: White people friendly) to White readers than other race books I've read.

On a personal and/or theoretical level, I did not get much out of this book except for a few ideas for citations. Overall, despite Feagin utilizing tons of psychology research, I think the book does a decent job of steering readers away from the idea of "the racist person" toward the place where racism really reproduces itself: within institutions and knowledge/rationality systems.