num_pages: 185
description: From a powerful new voice on racial justice an eye-opening account of growing up Black Christian and female in middle-class white America. Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with a racialized America came at age 7 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 organizations 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 who helps organizations practice genuine inclusion.In a time when nearly all institutions (schools churches universities businesses) claim to value diversity in their mission statements I'm Still Here is a powerful account of how and why our actions so often fall short of our words. Austin writes in breathtaking detail about her journey to self-worth and the pitfalls that kill our attempts at racial justice in stories that 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.
language: English
title: I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
publisher: Convergent Books