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Beschreibung

This book is my story about growing up in a Black girl's body.

It's about surviving in a world not made for me.

Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with a racialised America came at age seven, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive future employers into thinking she was a white man. This was the start of a lifetime spent navigating America's racial divide as a writer, speaker and expert helping organisations practise genuine inclusion.

In a time when nearly every institution claims to value diversity in its mission statement, Austin writes in breathtaking detail about her journey to self-worth and the pitfalls that kill our attempts at racial justice. Her stories bear witness to the complexity of America's social fabric and invite the reader to confront apathy and discover how Blackness - if we let it - can save us all.

'An example of how one woman can change the world by telling the truth about her life with unflinching, relentless courage' Glennon Doyle

'Austin captures perfectly the sentiment of many black people in America. She's not only telling her story, she's telling our story' Lecrae

'Most people say, "that book has legs"; I measure the impact of a book by how often I throw it across the room. Austin's book has serious wings. It broke me open' Brené Brown

This book is my story about growing up in a Black girl's body.

It's about surviving in a world not made for me.

Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with a racialised America came at age seven, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive future employers into thinking she was a white man. This was the start of a lifetime spent navigating America's racial divide as a writer, speaker and expert helping organisations practise genuine inclusion.

In a time when nearly every institution claims to value diversity in its mission statement, Austin writes in breathtaking detail about her journey to self-worth and the pitfalls that kill our attempts at racial justice. Her stories bear witness to the complexity of America's social fabric and invite the reader to confront apathy and discover how Blackness - if we let it - can save us all.

'An example of how one woman can change the world by telling the truth about her life with unflinching, relentless courage' Glennon Doyle

'Austin captures perfectly the sentiment of many black people in America. She's not only telling her story, she's telling our story' Lecrae

'Most people say, "that book has legs"; I measure the impact of a book by how often I throw it across the room. Austin's book has serious wings. It broke me open' Brené Brown

Über den Autor
Austin Channing Brown is a speaker, writer, and media producer providing inspired leadership on racial justice in America. She is the author of the bestselling I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness and the executive producer of the web series The Next Question. Her writing and work have been featured by outlets such as On Being, Chicago Tribune, Christianity Today, Sojourners, Shondaland and WNYC. Find out more at [...].
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780349014852
ISBN-10: 034901485X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Brown, Austin Channing
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 194 x 124 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Austin Channing Brown
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.08.2021
Gewicht: 0,16 kg
Artikel-ID: 119373585

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