Good White Racist?: Confronting Your Role in Racial Injustice - Softcover

Connelly, Ms. Kerry

 
9780664265748: Good White Racist?: Confronting Your Role in Racial Injustice
Softcover
ISBN 10: 066426574X ISBN 13: 9780664265748
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press, 2020

Synopsis

"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

\ good · white · racist \ noun

  1. A well-intentioned person of European descent who is nonetheless complicit in a culture of systemic racism
  2. A white person who would rather stay comfortable than do the work of antiracism

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.

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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.

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Publisher
Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
066426574X
ISBN 13 
9780664265748
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
184