What White People Can Do Next

Author Emma Dabiri
Narrator Emma Dabiri
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Publish Date 1 April 2021
Run Time 3 hours and 12 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Ethnic studies, Political science and theory, Politics and government, Social attitudes, Social discrimination and equal treatment, Society and Social Sciences, Sociology.

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An incisive - and deeply practical - essay from the acclaimed author of Don't Touch My Hair

Stop the denial
Abandon guilt
Interrogate capitalism

When it comes to racial justice, how do we transform demonstrations of support into real and meaningful change? With intellectual rigour and razor-sharp wit, Emma Dabiri cuts through the haze of online discourse to offer clear advice.

© Emma Dabiri 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Critics Review

Essential . . . accessible and yet so full of scholarship. Witty, insightful, a must-read

Owen Jones

Fascinating, invigorating . . . this book is for everyone . . . we have an academic like Emma Dabiri writing as if James Connolly and Audre Lorde had a love child

Irish Times

A gamechanging skewering of social-media discourse with a historically grounded analysis of anti-racism, collectivism, neoliberalism, and post-colonialism

Vogue

Deftly and wittily deconstructs allyship and white saviour tropes to give an unblinkered takedown of what needs to happen next

Stylist

A thoughtful, nuanced read that is deftly researched and studded with relevant reflections from Dabiri's own life in Ireland, the UK and the US... Dabiri is on top form when applying her razor-sharp analysis to the symbiotic relationship between capitalism and racism, and how it harms us all

iNews

Vital, needs to be read by as many people as possible . . . One of those rare books that is completely clarifying and that you find yourself referring back to for years to come

Ellie Mae O'Hagan (via twitter)

I really loved What White People Can Do Next: so smart, so readable, so helpful. There is so much I hadn't thought about before - 'whiteness' as a confection, the empty performance of online rhetoric, the impossibility of transferring privilege - and so much that I had somewhere in the back of my mind but that I'd struggled to articulate.

author of Just Like You

Refreshing . . . A nuanced and historical analysis of post-colonialism, anti-racism and collectivism. The sharpest of any book out on 'race' in recent years

Good Readers Club

Vitally important and written with intelligence and insight, this book is an essential companion for anyone seeking to understand racism, on the journey towards an anti-racist future

Jeffrey Boakye

Fantastic . . . a wonderfully concise deconstruction of race and racism Emma is challenging the inherent power dynamics in the concept of allyship, arguing instead for coalition when it comes to how people can confront the structures of racism

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