Short, potent, powerful essays addressed to the author's son, explaining how whiteness blinds those who "think they are white" to the fundamental injustice of slavery that the U.S. was built on, contrasted to the "dream" which poisons attempts to come to grips with reality and with the constant fear and risk and distorted masculinity that characterizes the lives of black men in America. I found it difficult and enlightening in large part because it isn't addressed to me, while also being entirely aware of how white readers would read it.