"A lushly written coming-of age novel that also has much to say about race, death, loneliness."

"Reid tells a very funny, very human story about race and class in Philadelphia. Before the virus, of course."

"Ralph Ellison's classic about race, racism, cruelty, hypocrisy, and the need for the truth is more relevant now than ever."

"Although his 2004 book on chicken is the usual go to, it’s his ode to soul food and race that grabbed me."

"This is a super engaging page-turner, but it also has some really powerful things to say about race, privilege, and being an adult."

"‘No book destabilized my fraught notions of racial distinction and hierarchy — the belief that each race had different genes, diseases and natural abilities — more than this vigorous critique of the ‘biopolitics of race.’ Roberts, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, shows unequivocally that all people are indeed created equal, despite political and economic special interests that keep trying to persuade us otherwise."

"One of my favorite reads from those fundamental years of art school, I first discovered this book when trying to come to terms with western Enlightenment culture’s broad impact on ideation in artistic practice. So much of Enlightenment thinking is poisoned by prior notions of race that one must ask: Is it ever possible to separate some of our greatest understandings derived from the Enlightenment era from its problematic history? In Race and the Enlightenment, Eze examines foundational writings on race by major Enlightenment figures and lays bare the toxic notions of their time in their own words."

"This book killed me. Funny, poignant, outrageous, and deep as hell. Beatty talks about all the hard stuff of race with great skill and humor."

"If you watch this back-to-back with 2001, it will show you why “the space race” was a politicians’ game that demeaned the dream."