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I'm still here Black dignity in a world made for whiteness

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The author's first encounter with a racialized America came at age seven, when her parents told her they named her Austin to deceive future employers into thinking she was a white man. She grew up in majority-white schools, organizations, and churches, and has spent her life navigating America's rac...

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Main Author: Brown, Austin Channing (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Convergent Books, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
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Brown, Austin Channing.
African American women political activists > Biography.
African American Christians > Biography.
United States > Race relations.
Autobiographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • White people are exhausting
  • Playing spades
  • The other side of harmony
  • Ain't no friends here
  • Whiteness at work
  • Interlude: Why I love being a black girl
  • White fragility
  • Nice white people
  • The story we tell
  • Creative anger
  • Interlude: How to survive racism in an organization that claims to be antiracist
  • The ritual of fear
  • A God for the accused
  • We're still here
  • Interlude: A letter to my son
  • Justice, then reconciliation
  • Standing in the shadow of hope.

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