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Garrett Bucks
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in Missoula, The United States
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March 2019
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The Right Kind of White: A Memoir
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"This is an engrossing, beautifully written book that quite deliberately doesn’t have all the answers. Instead, through a series of insightful, vulnerable and at times downright funny stories, Garrett Bucks pulls back the “layers of the onion “ to rev"
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"We hope we’re the right kind. Yet sometimes we strive and do what we think checks the boxes. Garrett Bucks doesn’t give you a checklist or a how-to manual. He offers the reader something more useful, the option to think differently about who we are a"
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"The author, who is White (he capitalizes it) and from Montana, grew up with an awareness of racism and a desire to be the sort of white person who consistently does the right thing to oppose racism. But what is the right thing to do? For some people,"
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"I truly can’t think of other books like this. Yes, this book is about what it means to be White in America and what to do about it; but it’s also not what you’re now picturing. this book is like having a beer with a nerdy friend. it’s thoughtful, sma"
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| An absolutely essential read for this moment. I'm going to be sharing this book far and wide-- with friends, fellow organizers, people with whom I'm already in community and people with whom I dream of being in community. ...more | |
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| Clarion accomplishes so much in this work-- a masterpiece blending reportage and scholarship and memoir-- but what will stick with me the most is its wisdom about the stories we tell ourselves, both as a country and as families, and the power in not ...more | |
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| Such a deft, deeply researched, big hearted offering! I am amazed at how much this book balances-- history, journalism, cultural analysis, and most of all love and hope, not for the myths of the West (and definitely not for those myth's most dangerou ...more | |
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| I can't stop thinking about this book! Just an absolutely artful, sophisticated examination of how a life shaped by American capitalism/patriarchy/White supremacy can slip so easily into complicity (as well as the stories we tell ourselves as our opp ...more | |
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