Beer and Racism: How Beer Became White, Why It Matters, and the Movements to Change It (Sociology of Diversity) Paperback – October 14, 2020

From someone who read this book, I can whole-heartedly recommend it. It breaks down the forces and history behind how craft beer ends up in your glass through a racial lens. This look furthers our understanding of beer's role as an important societal lubricant and how that's played out over different communities in recent history. It also delves into colonial history, pointing out that while we imagine beer as a white man's drink, there's more than meets the eye. This is certainly a one of a kind beer oriented book and an important text that I'm very glad exists.

A brilliant series of essays that start the conversation of all the socially important peripheries of craft beer. A great companion to Untapped: Exploring the Cultural Dimensions of Craft Beer. The world of beer is changing for the better. With all sexism and racism in the industry being shown the way out. This book is a reminder of hope and a small first step into greater understanding of the relative relationships and responsibilities concerning craft beer. Definitely worth your time.

This book dove to a deeper level and really helped explain why the beer world is so white, which is an important first step in fighting racism. Great tool for educating oneself on how we got to where we have so that we can move forward in another direction.

An interesting and, at times, uncomfortable read highlighting important issues.

Beer is definitely racist because white people have spent centuries developing new recipes and enjoying the drink in their free time. Since white people enjoy it, that makes it racist.I can't wait for the sequel to come out! It should be about something similar, such as: how lutefisk is racist because only white Scandinavian people eat it, or maybe how dogs are racist because only certain Asian groups eat dogs. I'm so excited for this new scholarship!

The person who posted the one star review clearly knows nothing of the beer industry and did not read the book. It is insightful and gives an honest perspective of the real issues facing a white male dominated industry.

Well first off, racism is clearly alive and well just based on some the 0 and 1 star reviews left here for this book... I'm assuming they did not read the book and just came here to troll.Anyway, I am a homebrewer and as a lover of craft beer, I am looking to foster inclusivity to the beer scene. The most helpful part of this book is that it went through the historical journey of beer in the US. I have a much better understanding now of why and how beer has become exclusive. It also went through many concepts such as social capital that highlight the potential barriers for minorities. There are lots of interesting facts too. For example, I had no idea that malt liquor was originally marketed to middle-class white people! Or that religious groups and the KKK were intertwined with the Prohibition era.The frustrating part of this book is that 1.) The content often seemed bombastic with excessively flowery language. It's written from a sociological perspective by two professors so I guess that's to be expected? But I had a REALLY tough time getting through a few sections. For a regular person trying to read this book and not a grad student, it was a challenge and a lot of it just seemed to me like scholarly fluff.2.) Yes, not surprising, the majority of the craft beer world is white, male, and often bearded. The authors will reiterate this on almost every page. This may be my white fragility showing here and ad hominem (as a white male with a beard), but I found the author's writing style to be contemptuous at times. Repeated phrases like "along the white-brick road of brewing" and "Homebrewing: the first (white) step." They often said things like "disturbing" after providing a statistic. Just give the facts and leave out the purple prose.TL;DR worth the read, but it could have been considerably abbreviated while getting the same point across

This book uses identity politics to make white people feel bad about themselves for the purposes of demoralizing society and the author is taking advantage of the racism propaganda fad currently sweeping the nation.