I initially gave this 3.5 stars but I had to bump it to 4+ after the discussions which immediately followed my reading of the book. DiAngelo has a laundry list of behaviours white people exhibit when confronted with discussions on race and I wasn't surprised when reading any of them. But I was surprised by how precisely the list surfaced in those following conversations. It was so meta it was almost surreal.

The book isn't as well-written as Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race but it makes a good companion to it. I'm rather disappointed the Further Reading section doesn't mention Why I'm, though.

The editing of this book is disappointing and DiAngelo has the mistaken notion that the very concept of race began with the slave trade. These issues aside, this is a useful manual for white people looking to examine our participation in structural racism.