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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race / We Should All Be Feminists / Dear Ijeawele
3-book collection set:
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race The book that sparked a national conversation. Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race is the essential handbook for anyone who wants to understand race relations in Britain today.
We Should All Be Feminists A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americana and Half of a Yellow Sun.I would like to ask that we begin to dream about and plan for a different world. A fairer world. A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: we must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently.
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie's letter of response. Here are fifteen invaluable suggestions–compelling, direct, wryly funny, and perceptive–for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. From encouraging her to choose a helicopter, and not only a doll, as a toy if she so desires; having open conversations with her about clothes, makeup, and sexuality; debunking the myth that women are somehow biologically arranged to be in the kitchen making dinner, and that men can "allow" women to have full careers, Dear Ijeawele goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century. It will start a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today.
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race The book that sparked a national conversation. Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race is the essential handbook for anyone who wants to understand race relations in Britain today.
We Should All Be Feminists A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americana and Half of a Yellow Sun.I would like to ask that we begin to dream about and plan for a different world. A fairer world. A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: we must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently.
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie's letter of response. Here are fifteen invaluable suggestions–compelling, direct, wryly funny, and perceptive–for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. From encouraging her to choose a helicopter, and not only a doll, as a toy if she so desires; having open conversations with her about clothes, makeup, and sexuality; debunking the myth that women are somehow biologically arranged to be in the kitchen making dinner, and that men can "allow" women to have full careers, Dear Ijeawele goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century. It will start a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today.
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Reni Eddo-Lodge
27 books2,030 followersReni Eddo-Lodge is a British journalist with a focus on feminism and exposing structural racism.
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May 27, 2020
Reni Eddo-Lodge... You have indeed written all these three books and I should have had this on my mind while reading them all but to be honest, I did not. You are a feminist. You fight against racism. And you told be about the nuances of prejudice and how is inherently different to racism (as it flourishes in the absence of power). For the first time, I realised that while I will inevitably experience my journey through life a woman it will be comparable but never alike to the journey of a woman that progress through life a woman of minority. With each trait that makes us different, we are left more vulnerable to society, more open to hurt and rejection. A realisation that seems so obvious now but that has ultimately changed the way I see the world. And it made me listen more. And I heard. How my friend does not enter a bar before me, fearing to be stigmatised as a prostitute. How black beauty is described as being as beautiful almost as if it was white. How my friend gets cut out of group pictures. How hair undergoes horrendous strains to be just a little bit more straight. How mixed-raced couples always have to fight the stigma that one of them is using the other - or how my boyfriend got called blacky as if it was a nickname rather than a monstrosity, as if he had no name one could use to refer to him. How all white women are the same. How all black men are same. How wearing a headscarf is a look for people who would have children that are not white - as if whiteness was the only skin colour you would wish on your children.
I have often re-read your work, skipping pages and chapters, exposing my own thoughts, my own prejudice, my own behaviour and the injustices of others and society and it will be a form of becoming that will last a lifetime. Ultimately, you have taught me to be more empathetic. To have patience and compassion. To teach rather than preach and nudge rather than smudge. To open my ears and be open to learn. To be more human. I hope you do the same for many.
I have often re-read your work, skipping pages and chapters, exposing my own thoughts, my own prejudice, my own behaviour and the injustices of others and society and it will be a form of becoming that will last a lifetime. Ultimately, you have taught me to be more empathetic. To have patience and compassion. To teach rather than preach and nudge rather than smudge. To open my ears and be open to learn. To be more human. I hope you do the same for many.
April 20, 2021
Important read through the history of racism in Britain. Which continues today
August 11, 2021
I have read both WINTTWPAR and WSABF and they are both very wonderful pieces of writing to read if you are infact interested in intersectional feminism and black history in the UK.
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