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Good White Racist?

Confronting Your Role in Racial Injustice
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Description

When it comes to race, most White Americans are obsessed with two things: defending our own inherent goodness and maintaining our own comfort levels. Too often, this means white people assume that to be racist, one has to be openly hateful and willfully discriminatory--you know, a bad person. And we know we're good, Christian people, right? But you don't have to be wearing a white hood or shouting racial epithets to be complicit in America's racist history and its ongoing systemic inequality.

In Good* White Racist, Kerry Connelly exposes the ways white people participate in, benefit from, and unknowingly perpetuate racism--despite their best "good person" intentions. Good* White Racist unpacks the systems that maintain the status quo, keep white people comfortable and complicit, and perpetuate racism in the United States and elsewhere. Combining scholarly research with her trademark New Jersey snark, Connelly shows us that even though it may not be our fault or choice to participate in a racist system, we all do, and it's our responsibility to do something about it.

Product Details

PublisherWestminster John Knox Press
Publish DateMarch 17, 2020
Pages182
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9780664265748
Dimensions8.5 X 5.5 X 0.4 inches | 0.5 pounds

About the Author

Kerry Connelly is the author of Good White Racist? Confronting Your Role in Racial Injustice and Pause: Making Time to Walk with God. She lives in New Jersey with her family, where she works as a transformational leadership coach and consultant.

Reviews

"A no-nonsense call to action for all those willing to confront their complicity, Good White Racist?promises 'This is going to be hard, and you are going to be uncomfortable. But it will be worth it.'"- Foreword Reviews

-- "Foreword Reviews"

"The power of...Connelly's work is the incredible specificity with which [she] delve[s] into how our everyday thoughts, feelings, and behaviors continue to reinforce White supremacy.... Connelly helps readers see how racism operates in our language, in education, policing, incarceration, church, popular culture, and personal relationships."--The Christian Century

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