This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work

by Tiffany Jewell

Race often gets confused with ethnicity. Your ethnic identity is your cultural identity. This is also a social construction. Unlike race, which specifically looks at your physical features, ethnicity zeroes in on your family’s cultural and ancestral heritage—like language, traditions, and history—to place you into categories.

RACISM IS PERSONAL PREJUDICE AND BIAS AND THE SYSTEMIC MISUSE AND ABUSE OF POWER BY INSTITUTIONS

RACISM IS NOT JUST PREJUDICE!

WE MAKE ASSUMPTIONS BASED ON WHAT WE DO NOT SEE OR KNOW.

“WE ARE THE ONES WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR”. JUNE JORDAN

Audre Lorde, an American feminist, writer, and activist said, ”MY SILENCES HAD NOT PROTECTED ME. YOUR SILENCE WILL NOT PROTECT YOU.”

YOU CANNOT HEAR SILENCE. INACTION CANNOT BE SEEN. WE CANNOT FEEL THE MOMENTUM OF CHANGE IF NOTHING HAPPENS.

There are moments when you will be made to feel like the comfort of one person is the most important over the safety and needs of many. You are accountable to moving the moment forward to justice and liberation. We are working toward an anti-racist society together.