Hari Kunzru’s White Tears is an engaging novel published in 2017 that looks at the nuances of race, cultural appropriation, and historical memory from a contemporary sense of music and memory. The narrative weaves a complex tapestry, which showcases the dark underbelly of American society and exposes its deeply ingrained racial inequalities and discrimination. It is the potential of “78rpm discs to store repressed memories, as well as to bring them into a destabilized present,” that Kunzru explores in White Tears.