- Description
- 71 pages; 16 cm
- Summary
- In this powerful and timely personal essay, best-selling author Otegha Uwagba reflects on racism, whiteness, and the mental labour required of Black people to navigate the two. Presented as a record of Uwagba's observations on this era-defining moment in history - that is, George Floyd's brutal murder and the subsequent protests and scrutiny of institutional racism - Whites explores the colossal burden of whiteness, as told by someone who is in her own words, 'a reluctant expert'. What is it like to endure both racism and white efforts at anti-racism, sometimes from the very same people? How do Black people navigate the gap between what they know to be true, and the version of events that white society can bring itself to tolerate? What does true allyship actually look like - and is it even possible? Addressing complex interracial dynamics and longstanding tensions with characteristically unflinching honesty, Uwagba deftly interrogates the status quo, and in doing so provides an intimate and deeply compelling portrayal of an unavoidable facet of the Black experience.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9780008440428
- 0008440425
- 9780008440435 (ePub ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 1197771737
- Author
Uwagba, Otegha, author.
- Title
Whites : on race and other falsehoods / Otegha Uwagba.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Form:
ebook version : 9780008440435