Start Date: June 13, 2020
End Date: October 21, 2020 I read this last summer during the BLM protests as a continuation of my desire to educate myself, a white passing and half-white latina of Puerto Rican descent. This book was super helpful and super educational. I have 138 highlights on my Kindle and it's a book I think I'll definitely re-visit every once in a while. This book challenges your perceptions on race and what race affects in America. It's eye opening and challenging, but in a good way. It can be difficult to read as you confront these realities that you may not have had previous exposure to, but confronting and sitting with your discomfort is the first step to unlearning your own biases unconscious or not. Being anti racist isn't a once and done deal, it's a continuous journey of learning and unlearning, taking correction, listening, and standing up. It's important to realize the scope of how racism and race affects us on the daily, or how it affects other people and gives them a life experience so vastly different than our own. If you are open minded to or honestly desiring to learn about race, racism, and how to begin your journey to being an active anti racist, but don't know where to start, start here. This book is a great beginner to that journey and I highly recommend it. Overall I give this book a 5/5 Goodreads link
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