"America is literally unimaginable without plundered labor shackled to plundered land, without the organizing principle of whiteness as citizenship, without the culture crafted by the plundered, and without that culture itself being plundered."

A profoundly thought-provoking series of essays ranging from respectability politics, to a portrait of both Michelle and Barack Obama, to the long-reaching consequences of white supremacy, slavery and the Jim Crow era. A must read for literally everyone, especially Americans.