Professor R. Richard Banks has written a comprehensive, provocative, and breathtaking book on race, and marriage anyone who is interested, or deeply committed, to a closer examination of the combustible ingredients of marriage, class, and race, need to read this book. It will give you historical information and current, personal insight that are unparalleled. You will not be able to put this book down.  I highly recommend it.

—Charles J. Ogletree, Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, Harvard Law School