Me and White Supremacy // Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

Combat Racism, Change the World & Become a Good Ancestor — Updated and expanded from the original workbook (downloaded by nearly 100,000 people), this critical text helps you take the work deeper by adding more historical and cultural contexts, sharing moving stories and anecdotes, and including expanded definitions, examples, and further resources, giving you the language to understand racism, and to dismantle your own biases, whether you are using the book on your own, with a book club, or looking to start family activism in your own home. This book will walk you step-by-step through the work of examining: Examining your own white privilege What allyship really means Anti-blackness, racial stereotypes, and cultural appropriation Changing the way that you view and respond to race How to continue the work to create social change Awareness leads to action, and action leads to change. For readers of White Fragility , White Rage , So You Want To Talk About Race , The New Jim Crow , How to Be an Anti-Racist and more who are ready to closely examine their own beliefs and biases and do the work it will take to create social change. Layla Saad is a globally respected writer, speaker and podcast host on the topics of race, identity, leadership, personal transformation and social change. As an East African, Arab, British, Black, Muslim woman who was born and grew up in the West, and lives in Middle East, Layla has always sat at a unique intersection of identities from which she is able to draw rich and intriguing perspectives. Layla's work is driven by her powerful desire to 'become a good ancestor'; to live and work in ways that leave. Hardcover: 256 pages Author: Layla Saad, forward by Robin DiAngelo Publisher: Sourcebooks (January 28, 2020) Language: English ISBN-10: 1728209803 ISBN-13: 9781728209807 Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 1.5 x 7.8 inches Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces