I would’ve easily given this book five stars except that the author lost his way towards the end. He should’ve wrapped it up with what happened with the Vietnamese fishers. Instead, he added a new topic of toxic environmental waste that would’ve been better told as a separate book.

Up until that point, it was pretty riveting and even the epilogue was great to read. But that boy in between that took place many years after the lawsuit against the KKK had no correlation to the clear xenophobia against the Vietnamese. The fact that the factory centered on your second portion was from Taiwan felt completely unrelated given it had nothing to do with xenophobia. 

Highly recommend the book anyway. It was almost five stars!, and I really appreciated learning the history of the Southern Poverty Law Center (and was so glad I never donated a penny to it myself).