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What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition by Emma Dabiri

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anniereads221's review against another edition

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5.0

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4.25

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4.5

I liked how this book basically says to get over the racism of the noble savage myth & to make identity politics about issues since different modes & regimes make different identities. Like the point is we're all going to get slaughtered by collapse (she used top deck of a sinking ship imagery), so when you feel like the cops suck or such shit like that see it as a demand & build that coalition. Currently, identity politics has normalized the incumbent power structures when seeking to use intersectionality by demographic instead of by issue. That being said, let people speak, don't feel like you gotta be the tallest tree because that's just paternalism instead of building a forest/orchard.

I didn't like how we're told to look for fiction for inspiration about these news works since in my experience fiction is largely dialectical materialism for cowards & the fiction I've had access to largely favors incumbent modes & regimes such as whiteness, capitalist consolidation, and patriarchy.

I guess if I'm going to take her advice on that I'd adapt it to seeking to be inventive in order to help combat ableism because that's does see a different world, you get better feedback, it's grounding, etc.

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4.0

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4.0

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4.75

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4.5

'What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition" by Emma Dabiri is a short but incredibly insightful book that digs into how white people can question whiteness and move beyond surface level actions. Dabiri breaks this up into different chapters from "Interrogate Whiteness" and "Interrogate Capitalism" to "Abandon Guilt" and "Redistribute Resources." I found this book incredibly accessible. Dabiri has a clear point in each section and delivers it quickly but with just enough context to make it stick. She pulls in a lot of wider points and pulls them together to both give the reader history while also outlining possible, brighter futures.
I think this book is perfect for people that have been reading antiracism literature and looking for new ways to address racism in their own life but are looking for concrete steps on what to do next. Honestly, I think almost everyone should read this because there are so many important pieces that you are bound to learn something new.

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