I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (English Edition)

About this book

From a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female in middle-class white America.Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with a racialized America came at age 7, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive future employers into thinking she was a white man. Growing up in majority-white schools, organizations, and churches, Austin writes, "I had to learn what it means to love blackness," a journey that led to a lifetime s