I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

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From a formidable new voice on racial justice, an eye fixed-establishing account of Rising up Black, Christian, and feminine in heart-magnificence white The usa. 

Austin Channing Brown’s first come upon with a racialized The usa got here at age 7, whilst she found out her folks named her Austin to misinform long run employers into considering she used to be a white guy. Rising up in majority-white faculties, firms, and church buildings, Austin writes, “I had to be told what it manner to like blackness,” a adventure that ended in an entire life spent navigating The usa’s racial divide as a creator, speaker and skilled who is helping firms apply authentic inclusion.

In a time whilst just about all establishments (faculties, church buildings, universities, companies) declare to worth “range” of their challenge statements, I’m Nonetheless Here is a formidable account of the way and why our movements so continuously fall wanting our phrases. Austin writes in breathtaking element approximately her adventure to self esteem and the pitfalls that kill our makes an attempt at racial justice, in tales that endure witness to the complexity of The usa’s social material–from Black Cleveland neighborhoods to non-public faculties within the heart-magnificence suburbs, from jail partitions to the boardrooms at majority-white firms.

For readers who’ve engaged with The usa’s legacy on race during the writing of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Michael Eric Dyson, I’m Nonetheless Here is an illuminating have a look at how white, heart-magnificence, Evangelicalism has participated in an technology of emerging racial hostility, inviting the reader to confront apathy, acknowledge God’s ongoing paintings on the planet, and uncover how blackness–if we permit it–can retailer us all.

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