I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness Women Studies NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK

NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK

Jason wants kids to know that dreams take time

so my mother named me Winter

both public and private

she will own Kitty

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness Women Studies NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACKFrom a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eye opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female in middle class 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 majority white schools, organizations, and churches, Austin writes, "I had to learn what it means to love