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Speaking of Race - Why Everybody Needs to Talk About Racism and How to do it by Celeste Headlee; OverDrive, Inc is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In this urgently needed guide, the PBS host, award-winning journalist, and author of We Need to Talk teaches us how to have productive conversations about race, offering insights, advice, and support. A self-described “light-skinned Black Jew,” Celeste Headlee has been forced to speak about race — including having to defend or define her own — since childhood. In her career as a journalist for public media, she’s made it a priority to talk about race proactively. She’s discovered, however, that those exchanges have rarely been productive. While many people say they want to talk about race, the reality is, that they want to talk about race with people who agree with them. The subject makes us uncomfortable; it’s often not considered polite or appropriate. To avoid these painful discussions, we stay in our bubbles, reinforcing our own sense of righteousness as well as our division. Yet we gain nothing by not engaging with those we disagree with; empathy does not develop in a vacuum and racism won’t just fade away. If we are to effect meaningful change as a society, Headlee argues, we have to be able to talk about what that change looks like without fear of losing friends and jobs, or

Who reads Speaking of Race - Why Everybody Needs to Talk About Racism and How to do it?

Author

Celeste Headlee; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780063098152

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Family & Relationships, Art, History