5.0

100% recommend this book. Toni's only nonfinction book. From '92 (around the time of her Nobel Prize).
In this book she studies the ideas of race, whiteness, and Africanism in US American Literature.
As profound and academic as this book is, its less than 100 pages and it's not too difficult of a read. I definitely have been experiencing literature (and comics/other media) with a new lens and critical inquisitiveness.
Read it! Its good!