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In this memoir, the white author describes her long journey in becoming antiracist. She describes barriers in white culture to dismantling racism : a culture of niceness (making us incapable of tolerating uncomfortable topics and emotions), the idea that white skin is default, and a lack of education and empathy surrounding racial injustice. The author recounts several cringe-y experiences from her own life, in an effort to teach other white people to open their hearts and minds and create a mor
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The author uses her experiences to illustrate what white privilege is, and then what dominate white culture behaviors are and how they hold back efforts to dismantle racism. She then discusses ways to go from bystander to ally.
Although Irving writes in the context of race, I think that we can also apply this discussion to people who may not be part of the dominate culture in other ways--non-binary, non-hetero, differently-abled. I am not sure that I will overcome some of my ingrained cultural be ...more
Although Irving writes in the context of race, I think that we can also apply this discussion to people who may not be part of the dominate culture in other ways--non-binary, non-hetero, differently-abled. I am not sure that I will overcome some of my ingrained cultural be ...more
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