Whiteness and Morality: Pursuing Racial Justice Through Reparations and Sovereignty

Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice

by Jennifer Harvey

Introduction The Moral Crisis of "Being White" Becoming a "Settler Colonial Nation as well as a Slaveholding One" Becoming Uniquely White "American" The Imperative of Reparations Repentance and Repair - Toward Becoming More Human

Genres: Nonfiction, Race

280 pages, Paperback

First published June 15, 2007

About the author

Dr. Jennifer Harvey is a writer and educator long engaged in racial justice and white antiracism. Her books include the New York Times bestseller Raising White Kids and Dear White Christians. She has written for the New York Times and CNN. She also appeared on CNN’s Town Hall on Racism with Sesame Street, and has been heard on NPR’s "All Things Considered" and “It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders.” Raised in Denver, Colorado, Dr. Harvey served nearly twenty years at Drake University as both professor and Associate Provost for Campus Equity and Inclusion. She is now the Vice President of Academic Affairs at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary.

Reviews

[Jens Hieber]

This is by quite some margin the best work I've read on this topic. Harvey is clear, well organized, never over-simplifies, and somehow manages to cover a great deal of ground in such a short work while always acknowledging the limitations of the text she's written. Here is not only an overview of the issues at stake but also an imperative of the way forward. To paraphrase my professor: "Harvey's book is off the chain". Forget DiAngelo's work; this is the one people should be reading instead.