The I Index

The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: And the Path to a Shared American Future

Top of the pile

93

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

99/100

Critics

88/100

Scholars

91/100

Author:

Robert P. Jones

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster

Date:

September 5, 2023

The story of three locations in the United States — in Mississippi, Minnesota, and Oklahoma — where the indigenous people were driven out by European colonists, where vicious racial killings took place in the last century, and how these places are coming to terms with the past, creating new organizations dedicated to racial repair and reconciliation as they aspire to a more inclusive, more promising future.

What The Reviewers Say

Ned Blackhawk,
The New York Times Book Review
Stimulating.
Lloyd Green,
The Guardian (UK)
A first-rate chronicle of horror.

Kirkus
A searing, stirring outline of the historical and contemporary significance of white Christian nationalism..

Publishers Weekly
Illuminating and erudite.