I'm Still Here: Reese's Book Club: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

by Austin Channing Brown

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1524760854
• ISBN13: 9781524760854
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Convergent Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

A thought-provoking book

I suspect that this will be one of the few books in my lifetime that I’ll read again and again. There is just so much to unpack. I have never thought of myself as racist. But this book is forcing me to examine my actions, my thoughts, and my private innermost feelings. Is it 100% true that I am not racist? Or have little racist thoughts/opinions/reasonings slipped in without any fierce determination on my part to identify them, root them out, and change my thought process? Am I guilty of white fragility? Of white guilt? Have I treated my Black friends, coworkers, and colleagues with the same respect and dignity I would treat my white friends, etc.? As I said, there’s a lot to unpack.

Everyone should read this book

This book powerfully communicates the role each of us play, no matter our race, in a society that is fraught with hate, discrimination, and lack of forgiveness. Whether you are black, white, liberal, or conservative, you should read this book and acknowledge this persons experience as being real. Our world is desperately in need of hope and forgiveness, this book helped me get there.