The Right Kind of White: A Memoir

The Right Kind of White: A MemoirA revelatory memoir that earnestly reckons with whiteness. As the product of progressive parents and a liberal upbringing, Garrett Bucks prided himself on the pursuit of being a good white person. The kind of white person who treats their privilege as a responsibility and not a burden; the kind of white person who people of color see as the peak example of racial allyship; the kind of white person who other white people might model their own

Justice is locked in a cold dark cell

Born without legs due to a rare condition called caudal regression syndrome

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a single building might house a Russian seamstress

Endnotes provide more information about the dance styles

No one is exempt

moved people

the two start to realize that their lifelines may have twined and untwined many times before

And when former drug kingpin Panama Pete returns to the hood after serving fifteen years in prison

strong pieces of narrative

reigns supreme at the network that pays him $30 million a year

revealing that Theo must be as resourceful and strong as his mythical hero