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How to Have Antiracist Conversations: Embracing Our Full Humanity to Challenge White Supremacy

How to Have Antiracist Conversations: Embracing Our Full Humanity to Challenge White Supremacy

By Roxy Manning

Utilizing Dr. Martin Luther King's Beloved Community framework, activists will be empowered to create change and equity through fierce yet compassionate dialogue against racism and systematic white supremacy. Can a person be both fierce and compassionate at once. Directly challenge racist speech or actions without seeking to humiliate the other person.

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Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publish Date: 08/29/2023
Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781523003730
ISBN-10: 1523003731
Language: English

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September 21, 2023

Dr. Roxy Manning guides readers through an effective, efficient model of dialogue that utilizes concepts of nonviolent communication and helps normalize talking about racism. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

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Utilizing Dr. Martin Luther King's Beloved Community framework, activists will be empowered to create change and equity through fierce yet compassionate dialogue against racism and systematic white supremacy. Can a person be both fierce and compassionate at once? Directly challenge racist speech or actions without seeking to humiliate the other person? Interrupt hateful or habitual forms of discrimination in new ways that foster deeper change? Dr. Roxy Manning believes it's possible--and you can learn how. In this book, Dr. Manning provides a new way to conceive of antiracist conversations, along with the practical tools and frameworks that make them possible. Her work is grounded in the idea of Beloved Community, as articulated by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as a goal to aspire to and even experience now, in the present, when we refuse to give up on the possibility of human connection within ourselves, with potential allies, and with those whose words and actions create harm. This book fuels courage and provides tools to confront everyday forms of racism. It walks the reader through an effective, efficient model of dialogue that utilizes concepts of nonviolent communication and helps normalize talking about racism instead of treating it like a "third rail," strictly avoided or touched at one's peril. Readers will
- Be empowered to identify what kind of antiracist conversation they want to have--for example, do they only want to be heard, or do they want to negotiate a change in policy?
- Learn how to engage in antiracist conversations whether they are the Actor (person who says or does something racist), the Receiver (the target of racism), or the Bystander.
- Learn how to notice the underlying needs and values that motivate all human actions and how those values can open up pathways to transformation. Examples of antiracist conversations highlight different ways to initiate dialogue, raise awareness, speak one's truth, and make clear, doable requests or demands for change. Drawing on her experience as a clinical psychologist, a nonviolent communication practitioner, and an Afro-Caribbean immigrant, Dr. Manning provides a model of antiracist dialogue with practical applications for individuals and organizations.

About the Author

Roxy Manning is a clinical psychologist and certified Center for Nonviolent Communication trainer. Since 2004 she has operated a private consulting business and regularly holds international workshops and intensives centered around nonviolent communication and social change issues.

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