Being-in-America: White Supremacy and the American Self

This book describes the devastating impact of white supremacy and its co-dependent style of individual autonomy on African Americans and on American culture and society. It reveals the hidden workings of white supremacy in the American psyche, its destructive effects in the family, and its profoundly dangerous threat to American democracy.

Ron Richardson is Associate Professor of History at Boston University, where he teaches courses on Japanese history Black and Asian populations in comparative perspective, and racial thought. Between January of 2000 and September of 2008 he directed the African American Studies Program in global and comparative perspective. His books include Moral Imperium: Afro-Caribbeans and the Transformation of British Rule. He is completing a study of Winston Churchill as white supremacist.