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 to 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 the language to understand racism, and to dismantle biases.
This book will walk you step-by-step through the work of 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, 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
''A rallying call, for those humble enough to answer, to stop and examine how dominant systems shape how white people see themselves, see others, and how they move through the world...Me and White Supremacy summons forth a new type of leadership and accountability that this time so desperately calls for and is the pathway to a greater healing that generations of people and communities so desperately need.'' - Latham Thomas, author of Own Your Glow
''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
''A bracing, highly useful tool for any discussion of combating racism.'' - Kirkus Reviews
''A timely and thoughtful guide that transforms truth-telling into accessible and actionable change in hearts, minds, and communities worldwide.'' - Jamia Wilson, author and publisher of the Feminist Press
''Layla not only engages readers effectively - she hands them the tools they need to change themselves so that they can better the lives of millions of people worldwide.'' - Rachel Cargle, activist, writer, and lecturer
''[Saad's] work is personal, practical, reflective, applicable, difficult, effective, and imperative. For the millions of us beginning to know where to begin - where to begin to counteract our ugly history, and where to stand during this historical moment of polarization and hate - Layla answers: Begin with me. Begin with you.'' - Glennon Doyle, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Love Warrior and founder of Together Rising
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