A More Just Future

Psychological Tools for Reckoning with Our Past and Driving Social Change

De: Dolly Chugh

Narrado por: Dolly Chugh

Duración: 6 h y 28 m

Resumen del Editor

A revolutionary, evidence-based guide for developing resilience and grit to confront our whitewashed history and build a better future—in the vein of Think Again and Do Better.

The racial fault lines of our country have been revealed in stark detail as our national news cycle is flooded with stories about the past. If you are just now learning about the massacre in Tulsa, the killing of Native American children in compulsory “residential schools” designed to destroy their culture, and the incarceration of Japanese Americans, you are not alone. The seeds of today’s inequalities were sown in past events like these. The time to unlearn the whitewashed history we believed was true is now.

If we close our eyes to our history, we cannot make the systemic changes needed to mend our country. Today’s challenges began centuries ago and have deepened and widened over time. To take the path to a more just future, we must not ignore the damage but see it through others’ eyes, bear witness to it, and uncover its origins. As historians share these truths, we will need psychologists to help us navigate the shame, guilt, disbelief, and resistance many of us feel.

Dolly Chugh, award-winning professor of social psychology and author of the acclaimed The Person You Mean to Be, gives us the psychological tools we need to grapple with the truth of our country. Through heartrending personal histories and practical advice, Chugh invites us to dismantle the systems built by our forbearers and work toward a more just future.

©2022 Dolly Chugh. All rights reserved. (P)2022 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

So good!!

Not what I expected and so much more than I expected. highly recommended that will not only encourage you with reckoning with our country‘s past but inspire you to continue to learn and understand and take action.

was hoping this book would be written

thank you for writing this book. such an important topic with useful counsel for one of the most important challenges facing America today.

Transformative

I loved "A More Just Future." Chugh is a gifted writer in whose hands the charged political topics of race, culture, and identity are rendered sane and reasonable and human. Every chapter made me grateful for Chugh's humanity and forgiveness, allowing me to hold both my love of my country and my knowledge of its imperfections at the same time, accepting that tension as the reality of being an American.

She resists the temptation to oversimplify the culture-war conflicts that have riven America's political landscape, and avoids demonizing those who might disagree with her. She considers America's virtues and its failings with open eyes and a warm heart.

Chugh's reading of her own book is inflected with genius, emotion, and self-deprecating humor that made me love both her and the book. This book is well worth reading or listening to. Highly recommended!

I SO needed this audiobook!!!!

This audiobook is helping me figure out how to think about my own place, as an American who wants to do right by other Americans. It's a complex and diverse world for me, as a human being and as an Asian American, living in New York City and among people of many colors and backgrounds. The author is guiding me through this territory, fraught with landmines in a way I can understand. Through shared experiences of watching "Little House on the Prairie" and football, I am able to understand how I arrived at attitudes that I am questioning now.

The author provides psychological reasons about how people think, perceive, and reason so I don't have to feel so guilty for being human. Yet, I have to make an effort to UNLEARN the messages that I have been told and LEARN, perhaps, a new way to think about the experiences of others and my own. The author has shown me a compassionate way to do that.

This is an ESSENTIAL listen for anyone interested in understanding how to come to terms with our country's difficult racial history, learn & unlearn how we can respect and show compassion to each other and ourselves, and have the language to make positive change in the world.

BRAVO DOLLY!