I'm Still Here

Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

De: Austin Channing Brown

Narrado por: Austin Channing Brown

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From a leading voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female that exposes how white America’s love affair with “diversity” so often falls short of its ideals.

“Austin Channing Brown introduces herself as a master memoirist. This book will break open hearts and minds.”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed

Austin Channing Brown’s first encounter with a racialized America came at age seven, 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 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 helping organizations practice genuine inclusion.

In a time when nearly every institution (schools, churches, universities, businesses) claims to value diversity in its mission statement, Austin writes in breathtaking detail about her journey to self-worth and the pitfalls that kill our attempts at racial justice. Her stories bear witness to the complexity of America’s social fabric—from Black Cleveland neighborhoods to private schools in the middle-class suburbs, from prison walls to the boardrooms at majority-white organizations.

For readers who have engaged with America’s legacy on race through the writing of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Michael Eric Dyson, I’m Still Here 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 blackness—if we let it—can save us all.

A must read for “good” white people

This book will break your heart if you haven’t been broken by racial injustice already and it will break it again if you have. This is essential reading for all of us well-meaning “good” white people.

Uncompromising truth, kindly shared.

She speaks the truth with candor and I, too have had similar thoughts and experiences as those she shares. She confronts racism without hatred, but rather with an honest and uncompromising voice. She challenges all of us to improve and offers suggests about how to be a better human being. She provides comfort because she reminds me that I am not alone in this fight for equality and justice.

Powerful and on point.

Austin is able to succinctly yet vividly describe realities and emotions going on in our world that will take me weeks to unpack in my journal. Thank you for writing this book.

Stunning

A stunning wake up call for white America. Thank You Austin Channing Brown for this intimate look into what is like to live in a World made for whiteness.

Thank you Austin Channing Brown!

Incredibly transparent and powerful! It's always much more meaningful when an author reads her own work. That's especially poignant in this one.