This collection sets out to subvert the unexamined, mainstream praise of works such as The Blind Side, Kathryn Stockett’s The Help (which eight of the text’s fifteen chapters focus on), and older, more traditionally canonical pieces. In limiting their scope to white-authored narratives, Garcia, Young, and Pimentel promote distinctly racialized frames of reading familiar works, frames that undercut their (the works’) statuses as progressive commentaries on American race relations. From Uncle Tom’s Cabin to The Help emerges as a collection that is as well-researched as it is passionate, filling a gap in race studies and providing a template for similar texts. At a time in which subversive commentary, especially by writers and educators of color, is being marginalized across the U.S., this text reminds its audience of what such thought looks like—and of what it can do.