The overt racism in the book may seem extreme by the standards of today, especially by white people who are fed a pablum of inclusiveness while people of colour suffer daily under a system of deep racism and endless microagressions. (A contemporary example: whites who say things like “I’m not a racist, but why can’t we say all lives matter?”) The History of White People is not the kind of book you gift to your Trump-supporting uncle, but it is the kind of book for people who are looking to do a serious examination of racial hierarchy and want insight into how we have arrived at our current structure.

Full review here: chadkohalyk.com/2017/02/20/a-hypercompetitive-race-review-of-the-history-of-white-people/