Listopia > Em's votes on the list Be a Better White Person (12 Books)
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Blind Spot: The Hidden Biases of Good People
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"READ THIS FIRST. You will not be able to build your knowledge without recognizing that you have biases, your society has biases, and it takes active work to look past these biases."
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rated it 4 stars
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Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis
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The Black Joke: The True Story of One Ship's Battle Against the Slave Trade
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"This is really important to read because it showed that just because enslaving people was made illegal through the Atlantic did not mean it stopped, or that people cared very much about stopping it. Take that sentiment now and apply it to police brutality, redlining, any policy that disproportionately affects any marginalized group over the other, and you will see that type of permissive attitude persist in everyday thinking."
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rated it 5 stars
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
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Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
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The Anti-Racism Journal: Questions and Practices to Move Beyond Performative Allyship
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"At this point, you've done the reading, you feel the change in your thinking, that means you're done, right? No! Thinking something different without making changes does not move your path forward, but taking the next step does. "
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rated it 5 stars
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
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We Should All Be Feminists
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On Juneteenth
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
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