What does it mean to be a white American? What does it
mean for any American to live in a country that is not
the one you were promised?

A brutally honest and surprisingly funny examination
of race and language in our culture, White People follows
the lives of three ordinary Americans placed under the
spotlight: Martin, a Brooklyn-born high powered attorney
for a white-shoe law firm in St. Louis; Mara Lynn, a
housewife and former homecoming queen in Fayetteville,
North Carolina; and Alan, a young professor struggling to
find his way in New York.

Through heart-wrenching confessions, they wrestle with
guilt, prejudice, and the price they and their children
must pay for their actions.