White Work & Reparative Genealogy

by Lucy Duncan

I recently reviewed Mary Watkin’s book White Work and Reparative Genealogy: Reckoning with Ancestral Debt as a Path to Racial Reparations and found it deeply moving, an essential manual for the movement. I say about the book,

White Work and Reparative Genealogy documents a psychic and spiritual journey toward reparations. Mary Watkins’s memoir, historical reckoning, and guidebook walks readers on a path to confront denial and mythologies of whiteness, so they might become agents in intergenerational healing and transracial reparative action.

You can read the whole review here. I commend the review and the book to all white folks’ working for reparations.

In November Mary joined the Rise up for Reparations cohort to share about her book. You can watch that video here.