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.
Stimulating ... To his credit, Jones centers both African American and American Indian oppression, avoiding "the myopic Black/white binary" that silos much contemporary scholarship ... Full of urgency and insight, his book is a compelling and necessary undertaking.
A first-rate chronicle of horror ... On the page, Jones lays out his pathway to a "shared future". He advocates "reparations" for the descendants of enslaved Black people and argues for "restitution" to Native Americans ... Jones can be swept away by his convictions.
