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I'm Still Here - Black Dignity In A World Made For Whiteness (Hardcover) Loot Price: R521
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I'm Still Here - Black Dignity In A World Made For Whiteness (Hardcover): Brown Austin Channing

I'm Still Here - Black Dignity In A World Made For Whiteness (Hardcover)

Brown Austin Channing

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From a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female in middle-class white America.

Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with a racialized America came at age 7, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive future employers into thinking she was a white man. Growing up in majority-white schools, organizations, and churches, Austin writes, "I had to learn what it means to love blackness," a journey that led to a lifetime spent navigating America's racial divide as a writer, speaker and expert who helps organizations practice genuine inclusion.

In a time when nearly all institutions (schools, churches, universities, businesses) claim to value "diversity" in their mission statements, I'm Still Here is a powerful account of how and why our actions so often fall short of our words. Austin writes in breathtaking detail about her journey to self-worth and the pitfalls that kill our attempts at racial justice, in stories that bear witness to the complexity of America's social fabric--from Black Cleveland neighborhoods to private schools in the middle-class suburbs, from prison walls to the boardrooms at majority-white organizations.

For readers who have engaged with America's legacy on race through the writing of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Michael Eric Dyson, I'm Still Here is an illuminating look at how white, middle-class, Evangelicalism has participated in an era of rising racial hostility, inviting the reader to confront apathy, recognize God's ongoing work in the world, and discover how blackness--if we let it--can save us all.

General

Imprint: Convergent
Country of origin: United States
Release date: May 2018
Authors: Brown Austin Channing
Dimensions: 191 x 127 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 978-1-5247-6085-4
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Equal opportunities
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Christian institutions & organizations > Christian social thought & activity
Books > Biography > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Christian institutions & organizations > Christian social thought & activity
Books > Christianity > Christian institutions & organizations > Christian social thought & activity
LSN: 1-5247-6085-4
Barcode: 9781524760854

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