'Witty energising and refreshing' Jeffrey Boakye Take a step through the looking-glass to a
strange land one where Piers Morgan is a voice worth listening to about race where white
people buy self-help books to help them cope with their whiteness where Boris Johnson and
Donald Trump are seen by the majority of the population as 'the right (white) man for the job'.
Perhaps you know it. All the inhabitants seem to be afflicted by serious delusions for example
that racism doesn't exist and if it does it can be cured with a one-hour inclusion seminar and
bizarre collective hallucinations like the widely held idea that Britain's only role in
slavery was to abolish it. But there is a serious side too. Society cannot face up to the
racism at its heart and in its history so the delusions irrationalities and hallucinations it
conjures up to avoid doing so can only best be described as a psychosis with the costs being
borne by the sons and daughters of that racist history. Living in a racist world is like living
in a world that bears no resemblance to reality. Black and brown people suffer from a greater
number of mental health difficulties too caused in no small part by trying to survive a racist
society. Kehinde Andrews is your piercing wry and not a little funny guide back to sanity
unpicking the absurd and outrageous lies society tells to keep up the status quo. The Psychosis
of Whiteness is your lifeboat out of this topsy-turvy world.
