Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

Me and White Supremacy

Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

Layla F. Saad, Robin J DiAngelo, Robin DiAngelo

Sourcebooks · Print & ebook · January 28, 2020

The New York Times and USA Today bestseller!

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Who it’s for
A direct, exercise-led guide for reading, reflecting, and changing how you move through the world.
Genres
Race & Discrimination, Activism & Social Justice, Race & Ethnic Relations
Published
Sourcebooks, January 28, 2020

About this book

The New York Times and USA Today bestseller! This eye-opening book challenges you to do the essential work of unpacking your biases, and helps white people take action and dismantle the privilege within themselves so that you can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.

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"Layla Saad is one of the most important and valuable teachers we have right now on the subject of white supremacy and racial injustice."—New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert Based on the viral Instagram challenge that captivated participants worldwide, Me and White Supremacy takes readers on a 28-day journey, complete with journal prompts, to do the necessary and vital work that can ultimately lead to improving race relations. Updated and expanded from the original workbook (downloaded by nearly 100,000 people), this critical text helps you take the work deeper by adding more historical and cultural contexts, sharing moving stories and anecdotes, and including expanded definitions, examples, and further resources, giving you the language to understand racism, and to dismantle your own biases, whether you are using the book on your own, with a book club, or looking to start family activism in your own home. This book will walk you step-by-step through the work of examining: - Examining your own white privilege - What allyship really means - Anti-blackness, racial stereotypes, and cultural appropriation - Changing the way that you view and respond to race - How to continue the work to create social change Awareness leads to action, and action leads to change. For readers of White Fragility, White Rage, So You Want To Talk About Race, The New Jim Crow, How to Be an Anti-Racist and more who are ready to closely examine their own beliefs and biases and do the work it will take to create social change. "Layla Saad moves her readers from their heads into their hearts, and ultimately, into their practice. We won't end white supremacy through an intellectual understanding alone; we must put that understanding into action."—Robin DiAngelo, author of New York Times bestseller White Fragility

Why It Clicks

A direct, exercise-led guide for reading, reflecting, and changing how you move through the world.

Come here for

  • guided anti-racism work
  • structured reflection prompts

Expect

  • study-friendly pacing
  • practical self-examination

Where it sits

Race & Discrimination72%
Activism & Social Justice50%
Race & Ethnic Relations42%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Facing Prejudice & Bias
  • Getting Motivated
  • Race & Discrimination
Authors
Layla F. Saad, Robin J DiAngelo, Robin DiAngelo
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Published
January 28, 2020
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Facing Prejudice & Bias