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Our Problem, Our Path
Collective Antiracism for White People



July 2022 | 344 pages | Corwin

A healthy multiracial society could be ours

Building a healthy multiracial society is possible, but not without millions of White people seeing racism as our problem and choosing to walk an antiracist path. It will take us supporting and challenging one another on this journey to learn more about the realities of racism and what we can do about it. In Our Problem, Our Path, award-winning author Ali Michael and clinical psychologist Eleonora Bartoli invite White people to join them on an antiracist journey to learn to talk about race with one another in ways that lead to real change.

Drawing on decades of personal and professional experiences engaging in antiracism, the authors:

  • emphasize the need for White people to have honest, meaningful relationships not only with People of Color and Native people, but also with other White people, in order to change systems shaped by racism
  • provide strategies for parents and teachers to support White children to become contributing members of a healthy multiracial society
  • introduce trauma-informed tools from psychology that enable readers to understand and overcome their own resistance and fear around taking antiracist action
  • demonstrate how White people can take antiracist action today, exactly where they are and as they are

Grounded in an understanding of antiracism as a daily, lifelong practice, Our Problem, Our Path supports White people to help one another find the trailhead and start moving on the path toward a more just, equitable and loving multiracial society for all.

 
Publisher’s Acknowledgments
 
About the Authors
 
Part 1: Beginnings
 
Prologue
 
About This Book
 
Ali’s Journey
 
Eleonora’s Journey
 
Part 2: Seeing Ourselves Clearly in the Here and Now
 
Chapter 1: Racism Is a White Person’s Problem
 
Internal Work: Antiracism in a Human Body
 
Chapter 2: Myths of White Supremacy
 
Internal Work: To Act, You Must Pause
 
Chapter 3: What White People Learn About Race
 
Internal Work: Antidotes to White Supremacist Priming
 
Chapter 4: Now We Know What Not to Say . . . What Do We Say?
 
Internal Work: Empathy Is Our Superpower
 
Chapter 5: Can White Antiracist People Feel Proud of Being White?
 
Internal Work: Don’t Get Stuck in Stereotype Threat
 
Chapter 6: Who Is White . . . and Why?
 
Internal Work: But It’s Not Fair!
 
Part 3: Who Will We Be as the Racial Hierarchy Falls?
 
Chapter 7: Taking Feedback and Using It Wisely
 
Internal Work: On Moral Injury and Racial Competence
 
Chapter 8: Talking to Other White People About Race
 
Internal Work: Healing Is Essential to Antiracist Practice
 
Chapter 9: Creating and Sustaining White Antiracist Learning Spaces
 
Internal Work: To Prepare for Antiracist Action, You Must Train for Courage
 
Chapter 10: Taking Action
 
Appendix A: Common Unproductive, Possibly Biased Behaviors of Some/Many White People That Perpetuate Racist Dynamics and Structural Racism
 
Appendix B: Examples of White Group-Level Behaviors/Privilege
 
References
 
Index

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ISBN: 9781071851326
£31.99