I'm still here : black dignity in a world made for whiteness / Austin Channing Brown.

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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)
Language:English
Published: New York : Convergent Books, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Brown, Austin Channing.
African American women political activists > Biography.
African American Christians > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
RELIGION / Christian Life / Social Issues.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.
United States > Race relations.
Autobiographies.
Genre:
Biography.
Autobiographies.
Physical Description:185 pages ; 20 cm
Variant Title:
I am still here
Black dignity in a world made for whiteness
Format: Book
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.