Hayward crafts a rich and cogent theory of how racial identity is reproduced not merely discursively but materially. Hayward’s book not only enriches renowned accounts of the architecture of American apartheid and the entrenchment of a “possessive investment in whiteness, her nonideal theories of how bad racial stories influence our movement through space and how whites are incentivized to maintain racial communities are also timely theoretical resources for efforts to critique and reform the systematically racially biased, punitive, and exploitative policy practices used in “black places”… — Rachel Sanders.