“What does it mean to “be white”? Jennifer Harvey asks this question in order to consider how white U.S. Americans can fully participate in racial justice-making. Exploring native, African, and white American relations in two moments of United States history, she illustrates how “white” identities are the concrete embodiments of deeply problematic moral realities. She argues that movements for reparations for people of African descent and sovereignty for Native peoples attempt to redress such realities. Such movements, she concludes, are thus critical for racial justice and for the moral and spiritual transformation of white people in the United States.”–BOOK JACKET.