A review by lifepluspreston
Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church by Hahrie Han

2.0

Undivided by Hahrie Han--I am pretty torn with how I feel about this. The book wants to be inspiring, relating anecdotes about an anti racist church program. But it's largely unsuccessful. The author proposes that a state that voted for universal preschool but also voted for Trump is a contradiction that can only be explained by a megachurch's antiracism program. This proposition is never fully explored, and indeed, the intriguing alternate question exists--if an antiracism program was so successful as to change voting patterns where people supported universal preschool, why didn't it change them to vote against Trump? Since I think fundamentally there's issues with the author's assumptions here, I can't respect the book as much. Thumbs down.