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xoxochrly's review
Note to self/further reading: Hesse, The Eight White Identities
powisamy's review
RTC
After seeing some good reviews of this I decided that I should pick it up. I have also read The Little Black Book from Otegha Uwagba and while I didn't think that book was meant for me professional speaking, I wanted to read more from her. I think with the events that happened last with George Floyd especially, it was a way for white people to take accountability for their actions. I did it and a lot of people did and it is something that I tried to keep up with but I know that I have slipped up over time and continue to read books make me continue to learn. This is something that Otegha mentions throughout and one of the ways that impacted me the most was her own experiences around the time and how racism can manifest itself in many different ways. I think this is a worthy read for anyone and I do want to read her new book in the future.
After seeing some good reviews of this I decided that I should pick it up. I have also read The Little Black Book from Otegha Uwagba and while I didn't think that book was meant for me professional speaking, I wanted to read more from her. I think with the events that happened last with George Floyd especially, it was a way for white people to take accountability for their actions. I did it and a lot of people did and it is something that I tried to keep up with but I know that I have slipped up over time and continue to read books make me continue to learn. This is something that Otegha mentions throughout and one of the ways that impacted me the most was her own experiences around the time and how racism can manifest itself in many different ways. I think this is a worthy read for anyone and I do want to read her new book in the future.
steve_urick's review
4.0
I am a white man from the US. I was interested in this short essay, in part because some readers were angry about it. The author herself is actually quite angry, and she makes some good points. I am not sure it is fair for her to assume that all white participants in anti-police brutality protests were "grappling with the reality of racism for the first time". Perhaps she is not asserting this as a fact, but rather describing her feelings. Certainly it is fair for her to say that not enough is being done by white people to fight racism and the brutality it produces in so many ways. The book is short on the details of how people should create a more just world, however.
soederbacka's review
5.0
Audio book read by the author herself. The prose and reading flows really well and the experience clocks in at just over an hour +(life)time spent reflecting/acting on allyship. Uwagba centers whiteness in her essay on racism, because whiteness creates the problem. I recommend this to all white people, not least my fellow academic anti-racists. This is an essay I will, no doubt, return to again.
steveurick's review
4.0
I am a white man from the US. I was interested in this short essay, in part because some readers were angry about it. The author herself is actually quite angry, and she makes some good points. I am not sure it is fair for her to assume that all white participants in anti-police brutality protests were "grappling with the reality of racism for the first time". Perhaps she is not asserting this as a fact, but rather describing her feelings. Certainly it is fair for her to say that not enough is being done by white people to fight racism and the brutality it produces in so many ways. The book is short on the details of how people should create a more just world, however.
donnereads's review
This might have been very short but it was also super well-written and really insightful. It is an insight into white allyship and what that looks like, if it’s even possible at all, that I had never seen before and feel like more people should know and think about.