EAN: 9780063098152

SPEAKING OF RACE - CELESTE HEADLEE GEBUNDEN

A Boston Globe Most Anticipated Fall Book In this urgently needed guide  the PBS host 
award-winning journalist  and author of We Need to Talk teaches us how to have productive
conversations about race  offering insights  advice  and support. A self-described
?light-skinned Black Jew ? Celeste Headlee has been forced to speak about race?including having
to defend or define her own?since childhood. In her career as a journalist for public media 
she's made it a priority to talk about race proactively. She's discovered  however  that those
exchanges have rarely been productive. While many people say they want to talk about race  the
reality is  they want to talk about race with people who agree with them. The subject makes us
uncomfortable  it's often not considered polite or appropriate. To avoid these painful
discussions  we stay in our bubbles  reinforcing our own sense of righteousness as well as our
division. Yet we gain nothing by not engaging with those we disagree with  empathy does not
develop in a vacuum and racism won't just fade away. If we are to effect meaningful change as a
society  Headlee argues  we have to be able to talk about what that change looks like without
fear of losing friends and jobs  or being ostracized. In Speaking of Race  Headlee draws from
her experiences as a journalist  and the latest research on bias  communication  and
neuroscience to provide practical advice and insight for talking about race that will
facilitate better conversations that can actually bring us closer together. This is the book
for people who have tried to debate and educate and argue and got nowhere  it is the book for
those who have stopped talking to a neighbor or dread Thanksgiving dinner. It is an essential
and timely book for all of us.

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