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Anthem: social movements and the sound of solidarity in the African diaspora

times inconsistent with one another. This inconsistency is rarely mediated by the author or engaged as a characteristic of the analysis. The next section, which includes five chapters on intersectionality, is perhaps the most satisfying, and includes some very interesting considerations about how class can mediate racial privilege and identity. In this section the author includes some of her original and ongoing research about Roma populations, which I found to be quite fascinating; the questions she raises in association with this population are important for whiteness studies. That said, the chapters on ethnicity broadly, and then Jewish ethnicity in particular, are redundant. Here, too, the same problems that plague the rest of the book – repetition and the lack of a clear framework – persist. Section four, ‘The Psychic Life of Whiteness’, is a curious one for a sociologist, like the author, to engage. While it touches on important questions like the conception of The Other and the emotional negotiation of privilege and its commonplace denial, I do not know many other scholars who use this framework theoretically, as it tells us little about the social structure, or in their research, as it lacks an empirical basis. Finally, the fifth section includes three chapters devoted to studying whiteness. In the first chapter of this section, the author outlines a framework for studying whiteness that is potentially helpful, yet, curiously, she does not follow it herself in this book. In the following chapter, she critiques blogs about whiteness as though they are written by legitimate theorists and scholars, and then in her conclusion embodies many of the same problems that she had critiqued. While clearly extensively researched, and while her other empirical work seems quite sound and interesting, in the end, this is a frustrating book. It lacks a clear focus or thesis beyond the very broad theme of ‘whiteness’. This could have been a useful primer or literature review, but without a clear and cohesive framework, even a fellow expert like me often felt lost. The book is dense, repetitive, and written in a prose that seems to necessitate a specialist audience. While Levine-Rasky certainly is an expert in our field and is deeply knowledgeable about the topic, I would have much preferred to read her own unique engagement with these theories or her own primary research. As a secondary text, it overwhelms and ultimately falls short.