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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

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dimeryrene's review against another edition

challenging informative sad slow-paced

This was a great memoir. ACB tells all kinds of stories about micro and macro aggressions she faces in the workplace. Even when she’s in charge, more than qualified, and code switching, white people still do not see her as a full person capable of leading. Really loved a lot of this, but didn’t connect with the religious aspects.

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mari1532's review against another edition

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5.0

This is a beautifully written and culturally important memoir. I have been thinking about this book for several months and am considering rereading it. Hearing Channing Brown's experiences in her own voice made this book even more moving. Highly recommend it to everyone, regardless of your reading preference, you are sure to be provoked to thought while reading.

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leweylibrary's review against another edition

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5.0

WOW. For a shorter book, this packs a hell of a punch. Alex Channing Brown (I feel the boy's name annoyance/privilege btw) is such a powerful writer. This book made me think so much, and I wish I would've read it before Tyre Nichols' murder and the vigil on campus. Brown makes so many great points about history repeating itself, the hopelessness and futility of that, and how people, especially people of color and Black women in particular, can keep living in a world made so unliveable by white supremacy.

There were also a lot of great parts about what it's like being a Black woman in the workplace, beyond the typical microaggressions they always mention in the standard DEI HR training videos you do for work.

My one hang up that I know won't be an issue for everyone is how heavily the book revolves around religion. Obviously it's because her background and career and passion revolves around her faith, I'm just not religious myself 🤷‍♀️ although it is valuable for me to see that perspective, especially in regards to race.

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cady_sass's review against another edition

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4.25

Brief but poignant and hard-hitting. This could’ve been a 5 star read for me but it got a bit preachy for my liking - I can appreciate that the author is clearly deeply rooted in her faith and that the church is an important part of her life, but at a certain point the heavy focus on Christianity takes away from the message. I suppose this may be written specifically for a Christian audience and that it’s highly effective there. For me, not so much. But if you can parse out the religious dialogue there’s much to be gleaned here.

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