{"product_id":"2940169268973","title":"I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female in middle-class white America.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAustin 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 blackness,\" a journey that led to a lifetime spent navigating America's racial divide as a writer, speaker and expert who helps organizations practice genuine inclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a time when nearly all institutions (schools, churches, universities, businesses) claim to value \"diversity\" in their mission statements, \u003ci\u003eI'm Still Here\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful account of how and why our actions so often fall short of our words. Austin writes in breathtaking detail about her journey to self-worth and the pitfalls that kill our attempts at racial justice, in stories that bear witness to the complexity of America's social fabricamp;mdash;from Black Cleveland neighborhoods to private schools in the middle-class suburbs, from prison walls to the boardrooms at majority-white organizations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers who have engaged with America's legacy on race through the writing of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Michael Eric Dyson, \u003ci\u003eI'm Still Here\u003c\/i\u003e is an illuminating look at how white, middle-class, Evangelicalism has participated in an era of rising racial hostility, inviting the reader to confront apathy, recognize God's ongoing work in the world, and discover how blacknessamp;mdash;if we let itamp;mdash;can save us all.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47116519407856,"sku":"2940169268973","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169268973_p0.jpg?v=1763772881","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169268973","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}