I'm Still Here
Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
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I'm Still Here
Narrated by:
Austin Channing Brown
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Narrated by:
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Austin Channing Brown
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“Austin Channing Brown introduces herself as a master memoirist. This book will break open hearts and minds.”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed
Austin Channing Brown’s first encounter with a racialized America came at age seven, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive future employers into thinking she was a white man. Growing up in majority-white schools and churches, Austin writes, “I had to learn what it means to love blackness,” a journey that led to a lifetime spent navigating America’s racial divide as a writer, speaker, and expert helping organizations practice genuine inclusion.
In a time when nearly every institution (schools, churches, universities, businesses) claims to value diversity in its mission statement, Austin writes in breathtaking detail about her journey to self-worth and the pitfalls that kill our attempts at racial justice. Her stories bear witness to the complexity of America’s social fabric—from Black Cleveland neighborhoods to private schools in the middle-class suburbs, from prison walls to the boardrooms at majority-white organizations.
For readers who have engaged with America’s legacy on race through the writing of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Michael Eric Dyson, I’m Still Here is an illuminating look at how white, middle-class, Evangelicalism has participated in an era of rising racial hostility, inviting the reader to confront apathy, recognize God’s ongoing work in the world, and discover how blackness—if we let it—can save us all.
This is not the story of one black woman, but black women (daughters and friends and cousins and wives and mothers and teachers and seekers and church family) in America - her story is THE story.
It is not manipulative though it stirs emotion.
It makes me confront the “not all white people” that wants to escape the white guilt throat of this nice white woman. Because it matters. It matters that I listen. That I notice my reaction and then push it aside to listen, and then come back and examine it myself.
The notion that segregation was not the only option was really powerful. How has I never considered this or heard it before in all the things I had read or seen or discussions over the past several years?
There is so much to learn in the unashamed telling of a familiar story. Of this one anyway.
I know what it’s like to hope in shadows, for different reasons than this author, but it also makes it more important to me to help make that hope-shadow a certainty for the future. For all of our children.
Read this book.
Gift this book.
Absorb it into your skin.
Let it create new or deeper neural pathways.
Shadow hope
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Loved this!
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Eloquent and Eye opening
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A must read, very sobering
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Powerful and beautifully written
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