Radical Unlearning (Hardcover)
Language: English
Published by Beacon Press, Boston, MA, 2025
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Hardcover. A road map for rewiring our brains to unlearn harmful beliefs, heal broken bonds, and transform our communitiesA road map for rewiring our brains to unlearn harmful beliefs, heal broken bonds, and transform our communities"An intimate text on how we really change, deep underneath it all. Give this book to everyone you love who is stuck in a heartbreaking worldview."-adrienne maree brown, author of Loving Corrections and Emergent StrategyFINALIST FOR THE PUBLISHING TRIANGLE'S AMBER HOLLIBAUGH AWARD FOR LGBTQ+ SOCIAL JUSTICE WRITING (2026)The beliefs that hold us back-inherited prejudices, self-limiting thoughts, destructive patterns-often feel permanent. But what if they're not? In Radical Unlearning, you'll learn about how neuroplasticity-the brain's ability to form new neural pathways-plays a key role in how we learn (and unlearn) behaviors and biases. Journalist and activist Lewis Raven Wallace likens the process to how footpaths are created by countless people walking the same route over years. We can choose to disrupt existing neural connections, to create new paths that lead to meaningful change.Weaving personal stories with scientific research, Wallace shows how anyone can break free from harmful patterns and beliefs, no matter how deeply ingrained. This book invites you to begin your own unlearning journey with practical exercises and reflection questions. It includes insights from people who have fundamentally changed their worldviews such as:A former white nationalist who is now a transgender anti-racist activistAn ex-Israeli soldier who has transformed into a radical anti-Zionist advocateWallace's own grandmother, who overcame decades of racism and transphobia in her 80sOur mental patterns don't just affect us-they shape how we treat others and form the foundation of larger social problems. Radical Unlearning is a road map for collective healing and growth, proof that transformation flourishes in community. With this book, you'll learn how to let go of harmful beliefs and practice new ways of thinking that foster connection, empathy, and justice. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Radical Unlearning (Hardcover)
- Author
- Lewis Raven Wallace
- Publisher
- Beacon Press, Boston, MA
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
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- 0807014885
- ISBN 13
- 9780807014882
Radical Unlearning explores the many pathways by which people free themselves from feedback loops in their daily lives that are dangerous, supremacist, or simply no longer serve them. Focusing on the stories of people who have unlearned harmful paths of self-reflection, each chapter approaches an interviewee about what conditions made their own transformations possible. Many interviewees refer to practices rooted in the concept of neuroplasticity—the ability to change what and how we think, enabling us to build new capacities and behaviors throughout our lives. Wallace unpacks the latest developments in neuropsychology as they relate to responding to trauma, politicized somatics, and social justice and community organizing.
He learns about his grandmother’s struggle to unlearn racism and transphobia late in life; his colleagues and collaborators in organizing and journalism; his comrades in prison; and people with extreme stories of unlearning, including a former white nationalist who is now a trans antiracist, and a former Israeli soldier who now a radical antizionist. Interspersed with these testimonies are discussion questions and exercises to guide readers on their own journey of radical unlearning.
Wallace ultimately discovers the key to unlearning lies in community. In order to fight for collective liberation, we must embrace unlearning as a collective practice available to all.
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