Black people and culture have always been on the margins of universities in the US, which has caused these ivory towers to perpetuate white supremacy, long after the days of Jim Crow. This book explores how Hampton has observed and experienced anti-black sentiment at McGill University, where she has taught for decades.

I found this book to be a very valuable piece of literature in exploring how white supremacy is reinforced in academic settings, with even the social construction of being a college student centering around the white, middle-class experience that often makes college inaccessible for people of color. There's a lot of social science theory and jargon in this book, as it reads academic in tone, but is still very approachable for the lay reader.