Lanette Sweeney’s Reviews > Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents > Status Update

I am working my way slowly through this important book, reading just a few pages a day while I continue reading novels. Each incident of torture or murder inflicted by American whites on Black bodies must be digested slowly; it would feel wrong to skim through them. Our history is so painful; I can't understand how any of my fellow whites can imagine our country is free of racism...