Inheritance

Bracing, candid, and rueful. KirkusBaynard Woods thought he had escaped the backwards ways of the South Carolina he grew up in, a world defined by country music, NASCAR, and the confederacy. Hed fled the South long ago, transforming himself into a politically left-leaning writer and educator.Then he was accused of discriminating against a Black student at a local university. How could I be racist? he wondered. Whiteness was a problem, but it wasnt really his problem. He taught at a majority Black school and wrote essays about education and Civil Rights.But it was his problem. Working as a reporter, it became clear that white supremacy was tearing the country apart. When a white kid from his hometown massacred nine Black people in Charleston, Woods began to delve into his familys historyand the ways that history has affected his own life.When he discovered that his familyboth the Baynards and the...