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Experiencing America Book Discussion Sets

Information and supporting materials for the Experiencing America book discussion sets.

About the book

Book cover of Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor with an author photo of Layla F. Saad.Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor 

By Layla F. Saad

Sourcebooks

2020

Reserve the adult discussion set.

Reserve the Young Readers' Edition set - Me and White Supremacy: How You Can Fight Racism and Change the World Today!

Summary from the publisher's website:

This eye-opening book challenges you to do the essential work of unpacking your biases, and helps white people take action and dismantle the privilege within themselves so that you can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.

Based on the viral Instagram challenge that captivated participants worldwide, Me and White Supremacy takes readers on a 28-day journey, complete with journal prompts, to do the necessary and vital work that can ultimately lead to improving race relations.

Updated and expanded from the original workbook (downloaded by nearly 100,000 people), this critical text helps you take the work deeper by adding more historical and cultural contexts, sharing moving stories and anecdotes, and including expanded definitions, examples, and further resources, giving you the language to understand racism, and to dismantle your own biases, whether you are using the book on your own, with a book club, or looking to start family activism in your own home. 

This book will walk you step-by-step through the work of examining:

  • Examining your own white privilege
  • What allyship really means
  • Anti-blackness, racial stereotypes, and cultural appropriation
  • Changing the way that you view and respond to race
  • How to continue the work to create social change

​Awareness leads to action, and action leads to change. For readers of White FragilityWhite RageSo You Want To Talk About RaceThe New Jim CrowHow to Be an Anti-Racist and more who are ready to closely examine their own beliefs and biases and do the work it will take to create social change.

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