A review by nadiamsahi
White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination by Jess Row

4.0

This is an excellent collection, and one which I wish I had the opportunity to read as part of a class, to really delve into the topics with deep discussions on philosophy, art, literature, and of course race. While I thought all of the chapters were strong, White Out (the last chapter) was the one I enjoyed the most, in part because it allows for introspection, where most of the rest of the book had me wanting to turn to someone to ask what they thought about a particular paragraph or passage. This reads as intellectual without being inaccessible, as deeply thought out and researched as intentionally shying away from a necessarily academic audience, and I appreciated every idea put down here as one which I will continue to consider in my own reading.