Summary Of Me and White Supremacy

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad is a New York Times bestselling nonfiction book and workbook published in 2020. Structured around a 28-day antiracism journaling challenge, white readers and participants critically examine their own personal complicity in upholding white supremacy.Stemming from author Saad's viral challenge on Instagram-- #MeAndWhiteSupremacy--over the course of four weeks, Me and White Supremacy breaks open white supremacy as an ideology and personal benefit for people with white privilege. This challenge is bookended by an introduction to antiracist work and education as well as a final chapter about how to continue antiracist education after the 28-day challenge is over. Saad uses evidence from her personal experience civil rights leaders and scholars including Audre Lorde, Martin Luther King Jr., Toni Morrison, and others; as well as research to make her arguments. Touching on aspects of the #BlackLivesMatter movement in the United States and beyond, Saad highlights her lived experience as a Black Muslim woman born in Britain as a way to personalize the oppressive nature of white supremacy worldwide...