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A review by petenewlove
Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism by Shannon Sullivan
3.0
I really appreciated the way Sullivan complexifies how middle class white liberalism positions poor whites as the scapegoat of white supremacy, so as to exonerate itself. Within this, she ardently argues that middle class white liberalism *is* white supremacy—and I agree. However, there were MANY parts of this book through which she did not say enough about the dangers of white supremacy that do in fact come from poor whites. It was as if she was too quick to exonerate avowed white supremacists just to make her point about middle class whiteness. On top of this, I believe there were MANY points in which Sullivan also co-opted, appropriated, and misrepresented the work of BIPOC. Quite unfortunate.