Gloucester native Jonathan K. Stubbs, a professor at the University of Richmond School of Law, has written a new book, “No Clue: White Affirmative Action Exists and Demands a Moral Revival Now!”

The academic work outlines the barriers to racial justice that have perpetuated throughout U.S. history because of the economic, social and educational advantages that Stubbs said white people have historically created for themselves.

Published in 2024, “No Clue” was written in cooperation with the late Oliver W. Hill, an African American attorney and civil rights activist who served as the lead attorney for the Virginia State Conference of the NAACP. Hill filed numerous challenges to segregation in the mid-1900s, including one of five suits that were consolidated into the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case. Hill was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999 and died in 2007, with “No Clue” still in the works.

“White persons continue to reap advantages from a social system tilted in their favor,” says the book. “Often such individuals don’t have a clue—or refuse to take one … We must work zealously toward a renaissance in human relations.”

Published by Twelve Tables Press, “No Clue” is 337 pages, including a foreword by the late Charles J. Ogletree Jr., an appendix by Flannery O’Rourke, and 79 pages of notes, bibliography, and index. The trade paperback can be purchased online for $24.95 at cap-press.com/books/isbn/9781946074430/No-Clue.