Waking Up White
Author: Debby Irving
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780991331307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne aha moment launches a journey of discovery and insight that shifts long held beliefs and attitudes about race.
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Waking Up In Black and White
Author: Chad Sugg
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2009-06-08
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 1312851511
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a poetry book about life, and death, and everything in-between. An honest look into the bright side of bad things.
Waking Up
Author: Sam Harris
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-06-16
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1451636024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpirituality.The search for happiness --Religion, East and West --Mindfulness --The truth of suffering --Enlightenment --The mystery of consciousness.The mind divided --Structure and function --Are our minds already split? --Conscious and unconscious processing in the brain --Consciousness is what matters --The riddle of the self.What are we calling "I"? --Consciousness without self --Lost in thought --The challenge of studying the self --Penetrating the illusion --Meditation.Gradual versus sudden realization --Dzogchen: taking the goal as the path --Having no head --The paradox of acceptance --Gurus, death, drugs, and other puzzles.Mind on the brink of death --The spiritual uses of pharmacology.
Waking Up Black
Author: Valrie Sommerville
Publisher:
Published: 2020-09-28
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEveryone is taking DNA tests! Including me. I woke up one morning a stranger in my skin. I was no longer the woman I had built for 30 years. I was a lost soul with only a hologram existence. My Birth Certificate was a flat out lie. I was not the little girl from Gulfport with just honey brown skin. I was not the little girl who tried to straighten her curls. I was Val with a biological change in my mental makeup all because I spit into a DNA test tube. I lost not only my fake false idenity. I lost my race. I was raised white. To think white. To see white. My mothers lie took me on a road of self discovery that I must share. In order to heal and move past my racial beginnings. I confront the truth about racial relations and how every family has a voice in who we have actually become. My story started prior to the racial debate on full display in 2020. My look on the inside is a window of opportunity to help enlighten both Americas to our truths in racial justice and equality. How did my family react to my new discoveries? Did I change as a human being? Was my white husband of 30 years shocked to find his wife is a half black woman and not the white girl her mother forced upon her? Is there a difference in our races? Or did I discover we really are all the same? Was I able to forgive my mother for causing such deep pain that still resides deep in my soul with every breathe I take?
Blackass
Author: A. Igoni Barrett
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2016-03-01
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1555979262
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFuro Wariboko, a young Nigerian, awakes the morning before a job interview to find that he's been transformed into a white man. In this condition he plunges into the bustle of Lagos to make his fortune. With his red hair, green eyes, and pale skin, it seems he's been completely changed. Well, almost. There is the matter of his family, his accent, his name. Oh, and his black ass. Furo must quickly learn to navigate a world made unfamiliar and deal with those who would use him for their own purposes. Taken in by a young woman called Syreeta and pursued by a writer named Igoni, Furo lands his first-ever job, adopts a new name, and soon finds himself evolving in unanticipated ways. A. Igoni Barrett's Blackass is a fierce comic satire that touches on everything from race to social media while at the same time questioning the values society places on us simply by virtue of the way we look. As he did in Love Is Power, or Something Like That, Barrett brilliantly depicts life in contemporary Nigeria and details the double-dealing and code-switching that are implicit in everyday business. But it's Furo's search for an identity--one deeper than skin--that leads to the final unraveling of his own carefully constructed story.
White Women
Author: Regina Jackson
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2022-11-01
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0143136437
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn instant New York Times Bestseller! A no-holds-barred guidebook aimed at white women who want to stop being nice and start dismantling white supremacy from the team behind Race2Dinner and the documentary film, Deconstructing Karen It's no secret that white women are conditioned to be "nice," but did you know that the desire to be perfect and to avoid conflict at all costs are characteristics of white supremacy culture? As the founders of Race2Dinner, an organization which facilitates conversations between white women about racism and white supremacy, Regina Jackson and Saira Rao have noticed white women's tendency to maintain a veneer of niceness, and strive for perfection, even at the expense of anti-racism work. In this book, Jackson and Rao pose these urgent questions: how has being "nice" helped Black women, Indigenous women and other women of color? How has being "nice" helped you in your quest to end sexism? Has being "nice" earned you economic parity with white men? Beginning with freeing white women from this oppressive need to be nice, they deconstruct and analyze nine aspects of traditional white woman behavior--from tone-policing to weaponizing tears--that uphold white supremacy society, and hurt all of us who are trying to live a freer, more equitable life. White Women is a call to action to those of you who are looking to take the next steps in dismantling white supremacy. Your white supremacy. If you are in fact doing real anti-racism work, you will find few reasons to be nice, as other white people want to limit your membership in the club. If you are not ticking white people off on a regular basis, you are not doing it right.
Wake Up, White America
Author: John Parker
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2019-03-01
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1796019518
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWake Up, White America comes from the mind of controversial author John Parker. Filled with experiences, anecdotes, statistics, and social commentary, Parker shines a light on racism and the attitudes he and much of the black population of this country feel white America displays toward this often sensitive and polarizing topic. Parker understands that much of white America chooses to reject race as a reason for inequality because it frees them from the reality of guilt, even though these same people continue to benefit from said inequality. He also draws some very clear patterns of these attitudes and shows why the United States of America, if it is to ever evolve into what it can be, must first hold itself accountable for the treatment of its own citizens, which up to this point, it never has. This book is a much-needed read for everyone, regardless of race. Parker makes it clear, on many levels, that it is time for white America to wake up!
Wake Up Black People
Author: DeVere O. Kelley
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Published: 2022-06-10
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1638672512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWake Up Black People: Are Our Communities in Peril? (Dreams Do Come True!) By: DeVere O. Kelley Why are so many of us Black Americans afraid to accept the blame for our own peril? Yes, we have been victims of systemic racism, poverty, wealth inequality, and police violence, but we have also caught ourselves in patterns which contribute to our demise. This book examines the history of not only the societal issues and stereotypes that have plagued our community for decades, but also the self-imposed burdens that continue to hold us back. Black homicide, drug usage, welfare, decrease in life expectancy, black incarceration and health problems are just a few issues covered in this thorough debut work by DeVere O. Kelley. Drawing from his own experiences and from the patterns of history, Kelley offers remedies for the obstacles still facing the Black community.
White on White/black on Black
Author: George Yancy
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780742514812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhite on White/Black on Black is a unique contribution to the philosophy of race. The book explores how fourteen philosophers, seven white and seven black, philosophically understand the dynamics of the process of racialization. Combined, the contributions demonstrate different and similar conceptual trajectories of raced identities that emerge from within and across the racial divide. Each of the fourteen philosophers, who share a textual space of exploration, name blackness/whiteness, revealing significant political, cultural, and existential aspects of what it means to be black/white. Through the power of naming and theorizing whiteness and blackness, White on White/Black on Black dares to bring clarity and complexity to our understanding of race identity.
Wake up the White Rose
Author: Michael Hall
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2007-07-05
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1465317651
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is in honor of a group of university students who lived in Munich during WWII. They wrote pamphlets and papers denouncing Nazism and the continuation of the war and the premise that all citizens should rise up for their rights and freedoms against this nightmare. They were caught,tried, and then hung for their beliefs but their courage, fortitude,and dedication lives on in all those who struggle against tyranny,despotism and militaristic violence. This book consists of poetry that tries to wake up that passion and courage here in America where we now find ourselves on the brink of watching a democracy turn into a fascist police state. Our founding Fathers were rebels,radicals and dissenters who knew that to change wrong you must wake up, rise up, and fight to instill change. Let us honor those who rose up before us and fight for what we know is right.
