I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness Audiobook (Free)

From a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and feminine in middle-class white America.

Austin Channing Brown’s 1st encounter having a racialized America came at age 7, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive upcoming employers into thinking she was a white guy. Growing up in majority-white academic institutions, companies, and churches, Austin writes, ‘I experienced to understand what this means to like blackness,’ a trip that led to a about I’m Still Right here: Black Dignity in a World Designed for Whiteness lifetime spent navigating America’s racial separate as a article writer, speaker and expert who helps agencies practice genuine addition.

In a time when nearly all institutions (schools, churches, universities, businesses) claim to value ‘diversity’ within their mission statements, I’m Still Here is a powerful account of how and just why our actions frequently fall short of our terms. Austin writes in breathtaking detail about her trip to self-worth as well as the pitfalls that eliminate our efforts at racial justice, in tales that bear see to the complexity of America’s cultural fabric–from Dark Cleveland neighborhoods to private colleges in the middle-class suburbs, from jail walls to the boardrooms at majority-white organizations.

For readers who’ve engaged with America’s legacy on race through the writing of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Michael Eric Dyson, I’m Still Here is an illuminating look at how white, middle-class, Evangelicalism has participated within an era of growing racial hostility, welcoming the reader to confront apathy, recognize God’s ongoing work in the world, and discover how blackness–if we let it–can save people.