White Freedom

Tyler Stovall delivers a thorough, lively history of an idea. Beginning in the European Enlightment and making his way to the War on Terror, Stovall explores how the Western world has racialized the idea of freedom. Viewing it through this lens, he reconciles the contradiction between the idea of freedom in Western liberal democracies and the treatment of non-white peoples by those countries. He does not avoid the uncomfortable and likely controversial conclusions to be drawn from his subject.