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What White People Can Do Next

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An incisive - and deeply practical - essay from the acclaimed author of Don't Touch My Hair

Stop the denial
Abandon guilt
Interrogate capitalism

When it comes to racial justice, how do we transform demonstrations of support into real and meaningful change? With intellectual rigour and razor-sharp wit, Emma Dabiri cuts through the haze of online discourse to offer clear advice.

© Emma Dabiri 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Critics Review

Essential . . . accessible and yet so full of scholarship. Witty, insightful, a must-read
Owen Jones
Fascinating, invigorating . . . this book is for everyone . . . we have an academic like Emma Dabiri writing as if James Connolly and Audre Lorde had a love child
Irish Times
A gamechanging skewering of social-media discourse with a historically grounded analysis of anti-racism, collectivism, neoliberalism, and post-colonialism
Vogue
Deftly and wittily deconstructs allyship and white saviour tropes to give an unblinkered takedown of what needs to happen next
Stylist
A thoughtful, nuanced read that is deftly researched and studded with relevant reflections from Dabiri's own life in Ireland, the UK and the US... Dabiri is on top form when applying her razor-sharp analysis to the symbiotic relationship between capitalism and racism, and how it harms us all
iNews
Vital, needs to be read by as many people as possible . . . One of those rare books that is completely clarifying and that you find yourself referring back to for years to come
Ellie Mae O'Hagan (via twitter)
I really loved What White People Can Do Next: so smart, so readable, so helpful. There is so much I hadn't thought about before - 'whiteness' as a confection, the empty performance of online rhetoric, the impossibility of transferring privilege - and so much that I had somewhere in the back of my mind but that I'd struggled to articulate.
author of Just Like You
Refreshing . . . A nuanced and historical analysis of post-colonialism, anti-racism and collectivism. The sharpest of any book out on 'race' in recent years
Good Readers Club
Vitally important and written with intelligence and insight, this book is an essential companion for anyone seeking to understand racism, on the journey towards an anti-racist future
Jeffrey Boakye
Fantastic . . . a wonderfully concise deconstruction of race and racism Emma is challenging the inherent power dynamics in the concept of allyship, arguing instead for coalition when it comes to how people can confront the structures of racism
The Blindboy Podcast

User Reviews

Book 4.0
Narration 5.0
Author Emma Dabiri
Narrator Emma Dabiri
Duration 3 hours and 12 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9780141998510
Format Audiobook
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Genre Ethnic studies, Political science and theory, Social attitudes, Social discrimination and equal treatment, Sociology
Availability AU, GB, IE
Rating
4.0 (1 review)
Narration
5.0 (1 review)

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