--- product_id: 63939215 title: "I'm Still Here: Reese's Book Club: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness" price: "VT6297" currency: VUV in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/63939215-im-still-here-reeses-book-club-black-dignity-in-world store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # I'm Still Here: Reese's Book Club: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness **Price:** VT6297 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** I'm Still Here: Reese's Book Club: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness - **How much does it cost?** VT6297 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/63939215-im-still-here-reeses-book-club-black-dignity-in-world) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description I'm Still Here: Reese's Book Club: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness [Channing Brown, Austin] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. I'm Still Here: Reese's Book Club: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness Review: Next level Anti-racist Memoir - Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. This book is powerful. It is “next level.” In fact, I would say it is the next level in our journey as human beings toward anti-racism within our world. Austin Channing Brown, an African American woman, named like a white man, understands and explains racism toward Black people in America in ways I’ve never understood and think many white people are oblivious to. She addresses white supremacy, white privilege, white ignorance, white fragility, white guilt, white shame. Every chapter was like a sucker punch to the gut. I couldn’t put this book down. This book caused me to repent of things like white supremacy and privilege because I am white and even though I am not American, I can see how this plays out in Australia too. But now that I live in America, I don’t want to be part of white racism against Black people. I don’t want to be part of the problem, and this book will teach anyone just how humungous the problem really is. My two favorite chapters were 4 and 5. I read chapter four to my husband (who is white American) and he was reeling. We were both shocked as we learned how Black history is bypassing in school curriculum; how we white people have a tendency to run away from our complicit guilt—to deny what our ancestors have done to Black people, people of other races and the Indigenous. I cried as she touched on the history of lynching. I resonated with the sentiments of the white person who said, “Doing nothing is no longer an option for me.” Chapter five explained how many unidentified racist behaviors and comments can occur within one short day in the workplace. A white woman touching a Black woman’s hair without permission. White people assuming that Black people are poor and must be looking for the “outreach center,” rather than recognizing a co-worker or the possibility that this is your co-worker! White people showing offence when Black people don’t eat with them or are wearing headphones while working, even though the White people also use headphones. Black people being told by the boss about email complaints and asked how they can perform better, instead of asking how the White person might perform better and be kinder to the Black person! When a Black person expresses any form of negativity its interpretation is exaggerated by the White person. Using the Black employee to educate White people about racial issues. Thinking that all Black people look the same and mistaking one Black colleague for another. White colleagues interpreting Black colleagues to other White colleagues in order for their ideas to be considered or accepted. Every white American needs to read this book. And other cultures would benefit from it too. Black people will love this book and hopefully find a little healing and comradery in its pages. They may also become angry as they realize just how much racism persists. Phenomenal book, thank you Austin. PS, I love your name! Review: This Book was amazing - As a woman who is also African American, the first word just hooked me right away “White people can be exhausting” when I read that I thought no truer words could be spoken. I read this book for my English class, at first I didn’t want to read it because it was only 192 pages and I wanted to challenge myself with a longer book. But when I read the first words and just had to read more. And I am so glad I did. I felt like it was actually me in the book like it was my life with just some minor changes. The author not only talks about the struggle of being a black woman but she also talks about not fitting the expectations of others even within your own race. She talks about the struggles of not being “black enough” when she goes to her dad’s all-black neighborhood for the summer from her mostly white Catholic school. I love how she doesn’t just talk about not being accepted in white culture but black too how sometimes people of color “talk white” and are an “oreo” and feel that just don’t belong anywhere. I felt like she was me at that moment because I went from an all-white private school to a very diverse public school and I felt l would never fit in I was to black for white people and to white for back people. Anyone who has experienced that would definitely love this book. Also her writing style I enjoyed very much how she went back and forth between her young and older self and how she explained how everything she experienced as a black woman stuck with her and made her who she is. One thing I remember because it stuck with me was a trip she took when she was in college. It was a tour of the south and slavery. It was a half black half white tour. At first, the author was excited to go on the tour and learn but when she heard things like “happy slaves” and “it wasn't our fault because we weren’t there” it really shocked her and changed her view on how white people really want to teach American American history. She also went to a museum where she saw pictures of black people lynched or burned and white people just standing there and smiling proud of what they have done. That made her stomach drop. Finally, at the end of the trip, one of the African American girls got up and spoke on how white people were just so evil. This book made my heart stop in more ways than one. I would highly recommend it to African Americans of all ages and even people not of color. It is hard to stomach some of the things we still have to go through because of how we look but once we stand up and don’t back down we can look back and be proud of our accomplishments. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #42,022 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #128 in Discrimination & Racism #164 in Black & African American Biographies #228 in Sociology Reference | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 11,634 Reviews | ## Images ![I'm Still Here: Reese's Book Club: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/8124IRXcQSL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Next level Anti-racist Memoir *by E***J on May 16, 2022* Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. This book is powerful. It is “next level.” In fact, I would say it is the next level in our journey as human beings toward anti-racism within our world. Austin Channing Brown, an African American woman, named like a white man, understands and explains racism toward Black people in America in ways I’ve never understood and think many white people are oblivious to. She addresses white supremacy, white privilege, white ignorance, white fragility, white guilt, white shame. Every chapter was like a sucker punch to the gut. I couldn’t put this book down. This book caused me to repent of things like white supremacy and privilege because I am white and even though I am not American, I can see how this plays out in Australia too. But now that I live in America, I don’t want to be part of white racism against Black people. I don’t want to be part of the problem, and this book will teach anyone just how humungous the problem really is. My two favorite chapters were 4 and 5. I read chapter four to my husband (who is white American) and he was reeling. We were both shocked as we learned how Black history is bypassing in school curriculum; how we white people have a tendency to run away from our complicit guilt—to deny what our ancestors have done to Black people, people of other races and the Indigenous. I cried as she touched on the history of lynching. I resonated with the sentiments of the white person who said, “Doing nothing is no longer an option for me.” Chapter five explained how many unidentified racist behaviors and comments can occur within one short day in the workplace. A white woman touching a Black woman’s hair without permission. White people assuming that Black people are poor and must be looking for the “outreach center,” rather than recognizing a co-worker or the possibility that this is your co-worker! White people showing offence when Black people don’t eat with them or are wearing headphones while working, even though the White people also use headphones. Black people being told by the boss about email complaints and asked how they can perform better, instead of asking how the White person might perform better and be kinder to the Black person! When a Black person expresses any form of negativity its interpretation is exaggerated by the White person. Using the Black employee to educate White people about racial issues. Thinking that all Black people look the same and mistaking one Black colleague for another. White colleagues interpreting Black colleagues to other White colleagues in order for their ideas to be considered or accepted. Every white American needs to read this book. And other cultures would benefit from it too. Black people will love this book and hopefully find a little healing and comradery in its pages. They may also become angry as they realize just how much racism persists. Phenomenal book, thank you Austin. PS, I love your name! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This Book was amazing *by N***N on January 8, 2021* As a woman who is also African American, the first word just hooked me right away “White people can be exhausting” when I read that I thought no truer words could be spoken. I read this book for my English class, at first I didn’t want to read it because it was only 192 pages and I wanted to challenge myself with a longer book. But when I read the first words and just had to read more. And I am so glad I did. I felt like it was actually me in the book like it was my life with just some minor changes. The author not only talks about the struggle of being a black woman but she also talks about not fitting the expectations of others even within your own race. She talks about the struggles of not being “black enough” when she goes to her dad’s all-black neighborhood for the summer from her mostly white Catholic school. I love how she doesn’t just talk about not being accepted in white culture but black too how sometimes people of color “talk white” and are an “oreo” and feel that just don’t belong anywhere. I felt like she was me at that moment because I went from an all-white private school to a very diverse public school and I felt l would never fit in I was to black for white people and to white for back people. Anyone who has experienced that would definitely love this book. Also her writing style I enjoyed very much how she went back and forth between her young and older self and how she explained how everything she experienced as a black woman stuck with her and made her who she is. One thing I remember because it stuck with me was a trip she took when she was in college. It was a tour of the south and slavery. It was a half black half white tour. At first, the author was excited to go on the tour and learn but when she heard things like “happy slaves” and “it wasn't our fault because we weren’t there” it really shocked her and changed her view on how white people really want to teach American American history. She also went to a museum where she saw pictures of black people lynched or burned and white people just standing there and smiling proud of what they have done. That made her stomach drop. Finally, at the end of the trip, one of the African American girls got up and spoke on how white people were just so evil. This book made my heart stop in more ways than one. I would highly recommend it to African Americans of all ages and even people not of color. It is hard to stomach some of the things we still have to go through because of how we look but once we stand up and don’t back down we can look back and be proud of our accomplishments. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Gave me great insights but little hope *by D***E on August 29, 2020* Well. If the reader is looking for a book that provides some hope for racial reconciliation, at least at the level Ms. Brown would like to see, this may not be it. It is powerfully written, eye opening, thought provoking, and poignant. It is also angry, unforgiving, and implacable. It was difficult for this white woman to read, yet I did my best not to judge, not to argue or defend along the way, but just to listen. And there is a world of pain, hurt and anger to listen to. Easy to see why she is fed up. I see that I have been pretty clueless about many of the assumptions I've held, maybe the biggest one being that lack of access to opportunity and fair treatment are the biggest racial projects that need work. Those sound like a piece of cake compared to what the author seems to be saying. The clue I think is in part of the title: Black Dignity. To be tolerated, accepted, included and given a voice in white organizations and institutions as a black person is too superficial for Ms. Brown. What she seems to be getting at goes deeper, to the dignity of feeling one ‘belongs’ in ways I find more difficult to comprehend, maybe because I haven’t experienced being so ‘out’ of the majority culture as have other groups. She gives very little if any credit for what most white folks would call progress, considering little of it meaningful change at best, and at worst, hurtful and exhausting to blacks. The picture she paints certainly make the white people in her orbit look painfully clumsy and oblivious, if at times well meaning. They often made me squirm in discomfort so I can only imagine Ms. Brown’s experience. Bottom line, I appreciated most the parts where she is recounting her own experiences and how she feels about them. Though difficult to accept, I can say it gave me much more insight into what some blacks experience and it continues to sink in in new ways as I process. But it has taken away any of my naïve expectation that we can solve this in a way Ms. Brown would find meaningful any time soon. That seems to be her take also. I'm left with the conviction that maybe for now, the best thing a white person can do is to simply open themselves up to these stories of pain and anger, keeping judgement, argument or defense to a minimum for the moment, difficult as that may be. And let it work on you. For our black friends and neighbors to be sincerely and compassionately heard and for white people to be present and open to some hard truths, is surely a necessary step if we have any hope of healing racial wounds. As I was reminded recently, listening doesn’t have to mean agreeing. 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