Whiteness and Morality: Pursuing Racial Justice Through Reparations and Sovereignty – By Jennifer Harvey

Abstract

" Weaving together the importance of white identity and justice and the necessity of reparations, Jennifer Harvey offers us the opportunity to look, with clarity and precision, at the ways in which racial justice is trumped by arrogant white supremacy. She neither romanticizes nor overstates. Rather she offers all of us a vibrant hope that in acknowledging our racial and national is-ness with the fullness of our ability to build or devastate, white U.S. Americans can, through grace, begin to build a better society with darker skinned Americans and in that process be molded into moral beings who can now step into the fullness of their humanity. " —EMILIE M. TOWNES, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African American Religion and Theology, Yale Divinity School " That great unspoken among White people—racial justice—has found its voice in Jennifer Harvey. I have learned more from her work about what is due and how to think about it than from any other White American. Above all, the moral crisis of being White and American is probed more profoundly here than elsewhere, and negotiated more fruitfully for what is needed—repentance and repair. " —LARRY L. RASMUSSEN, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary " This deeply historical inquiry into the moral crises attending white supremacy reminds us that rigor and passion coexist in the most profound studies of race. This a wonderful book to give to someone beginning to think about how race is made and how humanity is unmade.