Race Rules: What Your Black Friend Won’t Tell You
Fatimah Gilliam
Jan 2024 · Gildan Media · Narrated by Machelle Williams
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Race Rules is an innovative, practical manual for white people of the unwritten rules relating to race, explaining the unvarnished truth about racist and offensive white behaviors. It offers a unique lens from Fatimah Gilliam, a light-skinned Black woman, and is informed by the revealing things white people say when they don't realize she's Black.
Presented as a series of race rules, this book has each chapter tackling a specific topic many people of color wish white people understood. Combining history and explanations with practical advice, it goes beyond the theoretical by focusing on what's implementable.
Gilliam addresses issues such as racial blinders and misperceptions, white privilege, racial stereotypes, and everyday choices and behaviors that cause racial harm.
Introducing a straightforward universal three-step framework to unlearn racism and challenge misconceptions, this book offers listeners a chance to change behaviors and shift mindsets to better navigate cross-racial interactions and relationships. Through its race etiquette guidelines, it teaches white people to become action-oriented racism disruptors instead of silent, complicit supporters of white supremacy.
Presented as a series of race rules, this book has each chapter tackling a specific topic many people of color wish white people understood. Combining history and explanations with practical advice, it goes beyond the theoretical by focusing on what's implementable.
Gilliam addresses issues such as racial blinders and misperceptions, white privilege, racial stereotypes, and everyday choices and behaviors that cause racial harm.
Introducing a straightforward universal three-step framework to unlearn racism and challenge misconceptions, this book offers listeners a chance to change behaviors and shift mindsets to better navigate cross-racial interactions and relationships. Through its race etiquette guidelines, it teaches white people to become action-oriented racism disruptors instead of silent, complicit supporters of white supremacy.
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April 14, 2024
Love how this book reads the true everyday event in someone's life. This book needs to be heard by all. This is one of the many ways we look at issues and start a conversation about it.
About the author
Fatimah Gilliam is the founder of The Azara Group, which provides diversity and inclusion, leadership development, negotiation, and strategy consulting services. She holds a law degree from Columbia Law School, a Master in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and a BA from Wellesley College.
Machelle Williams has crafted an easy storytelling style from twenty-three years as a corporate trainer and keynote diversity speaker. Machelle's voice is nuanced, ranging from soft and soothing to dramatic and smoky. Since 2016 she has successfully produced over twenty-eight audiobook projects.
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