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| Resource: | Book (BKS01211) I'm Still Here - Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness |
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| Author: | Brown, Austin Channing | |
| Publisher: | Convergent Books | |
| Vendor: | Amazon | |
| Heading: | S-01 — SOCIAL WITNESS / Social Witness General | |
| Subjects: | Peacemaking; Racism | |
| # Copies: | 3 | |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 9781524760854 | |
| Description: | 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. |
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| Age Groups: | Adult (30-55) |
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