We Are the Question + the Answer: Volume I
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We Are the Question + the Answer
learn the lessons and strategies to advance racial equity and social justice by changing our individual and organizational habits.
We Are the Question + the Answer acknowledges that we are still struggling so deeply with racism in our lives and organizations because we do not see ourselves as part of the problem and the solution. Many of us talk about dismantling the system of racism, but we are all part of the system we are trying to change. Changing the system means changing ourselves. Each of us can opt out of being passive conductors of racism and oppression and opt in to being proactive disruptors.
“This book comes at an important time in American public discourse where the frayed seams of racial division are splitting before our television and computer screens. It is an invitation to a critical, intellectual examination of racism at a point where it is needed.”
“Combining compelling storytelling with rigorous analysis to lay out how systemic racism hurts us all, Dr. Martin unpacks the science and psychology that makes the ‘habit’ of racism so imprinted into our individual and institutional beings.”
Table of Contents
Dedication
Introduction
1. The Habit of Racism
2. There Are Layers & Nuance to This
3. Ideological: Cultivating the Craving
4. Internalized: Developing the Cues Within Us
5. Interpersonal: The Daily Routines of Racism
6. Institutional: The Biggest Rewards
7. The Habits of Racial Equity
About the Author
Book Excerpt:
Chapter 4, Developing the Cues Within Us
“White People have been taught that they have to strive for normalcy, to be complacent with the prototype of normalcy that someone else defined for them. In the same way People of Color have been taught that they too have to strive for this normalcy, but to do so in a world that will constantly remind you to that you are abnormal, a stereotype, a caricature of a human being. In the process, we are both striving for the concept of whiteness disguised as normal that no one can actually achieve and still reach their full human potential – because it requires each of us to give up our full humanity and self-determination.”
Figure 13, “Resilient Thought Process” from Chapter 3, “Ideological: Cultivating the Craving.”
Figure 14, “The Habits of Internalized Racism” from Chapter 4, “Internalized: Developing the Cues Within Us.”
Details:
Pages: 133
Publisher: All Aces Publishing
Date of Publication: January 24, 2021
ISBN: 1736418009; 978-1736418000
Genre: Workplace Culture, Discrimination & Racism
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