What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

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I think this book was very well written and researched. It made me think about how I can get to the root of the problem to do better and it enforced how mutuality is so important. Mutuality rather than charity that is so often performed. The author proposes coalition over allyship as a way to achieve this, defining the latter as an individualistic process that would only separate us more. Instead "coalition is about mutuality. It reframes the task as identifying common ground—while attending to the specificities of racism—that all can strive for and that all will benefit from." It’s solidarity as opposed to charity. She bases this, on coalition building that have work in the past.

Academic and author: Emma Dabiri (Photography by Stuart Simpson) What exactly are the problems with online activism? Naming whiteness is necessary; it is the ‘invisibility’ of white people, who are presented just as ‘people’, the default norm from which everyone else deviates.” Before 1661, the idea of “white people” as a foundational “truth” did not exist. The Barbados Slave Code, officially known as An Act for the Better Ordaining and Governing of Negroes, announced the beginning of a legal system in which race and racism were codified into law, and is where our understanding of “White” and “Negro”—as separate and distinct “races”—finds its earliest expression.’

The nature of social media is such that the performance of saying something often trumps doing anything ; the tendency to police language, to shame and to say the right thing often outweighs more substantive efforts.’ Get your company, place of worship, etc to divest from private prisons and detention centers. Since the start of a national prison divestment campaign, higher ed institutions, churches, and corporations have divested. There’s a ‘do the work’ hashtag, and people seem enamoured with telling others via infographics to ‘do the work’, but I don’t see much evidence of them doing the work themselves. ‘Doing the work’ to me would be dealing with theory, and engaging with the texts that we take soundbites and quotes from. They’re often presented out of context, and they’re often misrepresented and distorted. And in contrast to the expansive thinking that generated them, they become reductive.” So, what can white people do next? It's necessary to realize that whether or not you are on the "right" side of history, most of us have been guilty of painting a broad brush over any one group of people with expectations of how they should behave or what they would think. Much like people of color differ in their thinking, so do white people in their responses to each other. Understanding this idea and stepping outside of our echo chamber is crucial to bridging the gap between progressive peoples and harmful political movements like #AllLivesMatter or #NotAllMen. We Haven't Been Taught to Work Together, but Now Is the Time to Learn Call or write to your national legislators, state legislators, and governor in favor of affirmative action. Encourage friends to do the same.

I felt it lent an accessibility to the topics that put the reader somewhat at ease and more open to contemplating the questions she is posing. It is crucial to connect the dots between the origins of global capitalism and colonialism, and the invention of race.”Yes. I rate this. I’m just gonna write a mini-essay here lol if u want to read it but in short I thought this was good. I think the genre of instructing white people on how to act and behave when it comes to racism is short-sighted and needs to go and hopefully this book can start this conversation. conduct a study to review the impact of parental incarceration on minor children. With more data, the Commission could modify the Sentencing Guidelines and allow judges to take this factor into account when sentencing individuals for non-violent crimes.

Read Ta-Nehisi Coates’ article The Case for Reparations and From Here to Equality by William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen. The US has already participated in reparations four times. Thank you to Clyanna Blyanna for suggesting this addition. This is clearly in the mold of 2020’s antiracist books, but Dabiri wouldn’t thank you for considering her under the same umbrella. She doesn’t like the concept of allyship because it reinforces unhelpful roles: people of colour as victims and white people as the ones with power who can come and save the day. The unwavering fact that race is a myth shakes me to my core. Although intellectually I know that race is human-made, it still sincerely affects me. So much of my life has revolved around contemplating who (or what) I am. My mixed identity is complex, and anxious ruminations over where I fit in took a lot out of me, which was energy that could have been used elsewhere. Energy that was conserved by white, Irish friends who never had to consider their racial identity. Join your local Showing up for Racial Justice (SURJ) group. There is a lot of awesome work going on locally — Get involved in the projects that speak to you. Not going to lie and say I did more than skim through the book. I stumbled across this in university [the only segment I read through was presented as a paper] hence that was on my reading list. Even my extremely left-leaning liberal professor was less than impressed and ripped the piece to shreds.

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History is now. We are living it. If we can’t accept the past and how it affects wealth and opportunity and knowledge production and value systems, we are doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over again.” After an onslaught of widespread uncertainty and brutal instability, we all need a guiding map to help us move forward together. What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition, Emma Dabiri’s second book, pioneers urgent new roads to social change and new forms of dialogue. Know what indigenous land you’re living on by looking that this map and research the groups that occupied that land before you did. Find out what local activism those groups are doing and give your money and time to those efforts. Pull people up on racism - it’s our collective responsibility to challenge racism if we see or hear it anywhere Bottom line at the beginning because I'm going to be rambling a lot: Don’t make whiteness the protagonist of your speech! Don’t be patronizing! Don’t just engage in social media activism! Read, read, read, and dance!