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Collecting Courage: Joy, Pain, Freedom, Love—Anti-Black Racism in the Charitable Sector
Top 10 Book of 2020, Charity Report Literary Circle
Gold Winner, 2022 Human Relations Indie Book Award, Cultural & Diversity
Gold Winner, 2022 Human Relations Indie Book Award, Collection of Short Stories/Essays
Collecting Joy, Pain, Freedom, Love—Anti-Black Racism in the Charitable Sector is a collection of 15 first-person narratives shared by accomplished Black fundraisers and equity, racial, and social justice advocates, documenting their experiences confronting and surviving racism working in charitable and philanthropic spaces across North America. With searing and intimate detail, they write about their experiences with anti-Black from coping with being last hired, first fired, and overlooked for promotion to outright hostility in toxic workplaces. Their testimonies chip away at the idea of the inherent goodness of the charitable sector.
In addition to the editors Nneka Allen, Camila Vital Nunes Pereira, and Nicole Salmon, contributors to Collecting Courage Birgit Smith Burton, Christal M. Cherry, Kishshana Palmer, Heba Mahmoud, Mide Akerewusi, Naimah Bilal, Niambi Martin-John, Fatou Jammeh, Muthoni Kariuki, Sherrie James, Nicole E. Cozier, and Marva Wisdom.
Gold Winner, 2022 Human Relations Indie Book Award, Cultural & Diversity
Gold Winner, 2022 Human Relations Indie Book Award, Collection of Short Stories/Essays
Collecting Joy, Pain, Freedom, Love—Anti-Black Racism in the Charitable Sector is a collection of 15 first-person narratives shared by accomplished Black fundraisers and equity, racial, and social justice advocates, documenting their experiences confronting and surviving racism working in charitable and philanthropic spaces across North America. With searing and intimate detail, they write about their experiences with anti-Black from coping with being last hired, first fired, and overlooked for promotion to outright hostility in toxic workplaces. Their testimonies chip away at the idea of the inherent goodness of the charitable sector.
In addition to the editors Nneka Allen, Camila Vital Nunes Pereira, and Nicole Salmon, contributors to Collecting Courage Birgit Smith Burton, Christal M. Cherry, Kishshana Palmer, Heba Mahmoud, Mide Akerewusi, Naimah Bilal, Niambi Martin-John, Fatou Jammeh, Muthoni Kariuki, Sherrie James, Nicole E. Cozier, and Marva Wisdom.
216 pages, Paperback
Published September 8, 2023
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January 19, 2022
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I finished this book this afternoon and I have to admit that it left me feeling disheartened, to read about so many talented and highly educated women not being judged by their work ethics and skills, but by their skin color, makes me somewhat ashamed of being white. Until people learn to be color blind, things will never change, and hate will continue to spread like some out-of-control virus.
Disclaimer: I have received this book free of charge in exchange for an honest review.
I finished this book this afternoon and I have to admit that it left me feeling disheartened, to read about so many talented and highly educated women not being judged by their work ethics and skills, but by their skin color, makes me somewhat ashamed of being white. Until people learn to be color blind, things will never change, and hate will continue to spread like some out-of-control virus.
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