Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I appreciate the effort and I really wanted to like this book but it lost me when the author was confronted by an Italian American client and proceeded to argue that Italians are fully assimilated and therefore white. This is denial. This is the “exempting” that the author accuses white clients and readers of doing when they are ‘accused’ and ‘confronted’ about race and of being complicit in racism. Race has intersections. This is brushed passed. The author seems confident enough to deem which minority communities get to be white and which get to be black with no scholarship. The book is reduced to blackness and whiteness. The first 27 pages could be more concise and edited down to maybe two, if the author would have just clarified that the topic being discussed is an institutional and systemic form of racism rather than the overt racist acts done on an individual and micro scale. Instead she drags this idea out so far instead of simplifying for readers that it is this particular concept/idea she is utilizing and applying to her argument of white complicity and fragility. This is not an academic approach and is not well researched. It’s seems more like an individuals own experience and “take” on how people respond to racism today.