Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
by Austin Channing Brown
Recommended by Brene Brown
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From a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eyeopening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female in middleclass 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 m...
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