What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

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Deftly and wittily deconstructs allyship and white saviour tropes to give an unblinkered takedown of what needs to happen next. Stylist (UK) The author proposes coalition over allyship as a way to achieve this, defining the latter as an individualistic process that would only separate us more. Instead "coalition is about mutuality. It reframes the task as identifying common ground—while attending to the specificities of racism—that all can strive for and that all will benefit from." It’s solidarity as opposed to charity. She bases this, on coalition building that have work in the past.

The chapter headings are a great précis of the internal steps white people need to take – what do you need to realise about your behaviour? – but stops a little short of concrete actions. I think this book was very well written and researched. It made me think about how I can get to the root of the problem to do better and it enforced how mutuality is so important. Mutuality rather than charity that is so often performed. I'm so glad that I requested the book and that I actually got it. I'm especially glad that I didn't leave in on my kindle app forever (like I always do), but that I read it right away. Dabiri is a frequent contributor to print and online media, including The Guardian, Irish Times, Dublin Inquirer, Vice, and others. [7] She has also published in academic journals. Dabiri's outspokenness on issues of race and racism has caused her to have to deal with extreme "trollism" and racist abuse online. She says of this that "it's just words" and the racism she grew up with fortified her to deal with it. [8] She is the author of two books: Don't Touch My Hair (2019) and What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition (2021).Research your local prosecutors. Prosecutors have a lot of power to give fair sentences or Draconian ones, influence a judge’s decision to set bail or not, etc. In the past election, a many fair-minded prosecutors were elected. We need more. Das Buch ist so wichtig. Und wirklich gut zu lesen, es ist verständlich und es gibt einen mit Zitaten aus anderen Werken, mit Fußnoten, einfach die Möglichkeit noch tiefer in das Thema und

What is lost when class and capitalist analysis is overlooked in mainstream conversations about racial justice? Call or write to your state legislators and governor to support state-wide criminal justice reform including reducing mandatory minimum sentences, reducing sentences for non-violent drug crimes, passing “safety valve” law to allow judges to depart below a mandatory minimum sentence under certain conditions, creating alternatives to incarceration, and passing “second look” sentencing (for current legislation by state FAMM created this spreadsheet). Study after study shows that racism fuels racial disparities in imprisonment, and about 90% of the US prison population are at the state and local level.Attend town halls, candidate meet-and-greets, etc for political candidates and ask about ending mass incarceration, reducing mandatory minimum sentences, reducing or ending solitary confinement, decriminalizing weed, ending cash bail, divesting from private prisons, divesting from banks, divesting from banks that finance the Dakota Access Pipeline, etc. Dabiri holds a Western Marxist's critique of capitalism, and in What White People Can Do Next, she dedicates a chapter to "Interrogate Capitalism", building upon the ideas of Herbert Marcuse, Angela Davis, and Frantz Fanon. [ according to whom?] [9] Western Marxism places greater emphasis on the study of the cultural trends of capitalist society. Dabiri summarizes: "In fact, in many ways race and capitalism are siblings", while "capitalism exists, racism will continue". [9] Great collection of thought provoking essays shining light not only on how racism but classism has affected the USA as well as the roles + often vastly differing ripple effects seen in the UK & Ireland in particular; the two other countries this author has resided in. Her lived experiences vary wildly and deepen the conversations that need to happen. We can all (I hope) recognise that racism does not exist in a vacuum; not everyone’s experience is the same therefore there can be no one solution to fix all! Conversations are obviously musts, but we also all need to be open to *listening* - Emma has insightful takes on the role of social media and preformative activism. Her first essay’s comparison of the abolitionists to modern day activism is mind opening! 📝 A game-changing skewering of social-media discourse with a historically grounded analysis of anti-racism, collectivism, neoliberalism, and post-colonialism.”— Vogue UK One of my hopes with the book is, I want people to join the dots and see connections between things that they might not have seen previously. I want different people experiencing different forms of oppression connecting. All these people joining those dots together and forming a coalition instead of being pitted against one another. That's what excites me and what my work is trying to do.”