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So my mom bought a book (small book) on black history. It is written by a white man. This guy. She said she enjoyed it.

One good thing came out of it, though. She finally stopped saying that the Confederate flag is a matter of heritage.

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I'm looking now for something by POCs to give her, actually. But thank you!

[schemingreader]

If your mom is religious, she might like the book I read on the history of the civil rights movement, since it emphasizes the role of the black church. I reviewed it here. Though it might be a little too academic for her, I don't know. He does get all down and dirty with the organizational politics--but there is still some very inspiring stuff in there.

I read the reviews on Amazon of the book you mentioned, and I could not draw a bead on the writer's position.

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Thank you for the rec! *adds to wishlist* :D

[this_caia]

I was being facetious about the white people part, but Tim Wise really does do good anti-racism work. If she doesn't believe in the real harm of racism, you could point her at this post: Black Power's Gonna Get You Sucka: Right-Wing Paranoia and the Rhetoric of Modern Racism:

What is it that woke them up finally, after all these years of denial, during which they insisted that racism was a thing of the past?

Was it the research indicating that job applicants with white sounding names have a 50 percent better chance of being called back for an interview than their counterparts with black-sounding names, even when all qualifications are the same?

No.

Was it the study that found white job applicants with criminal records have a better chance of being called back for an interview than black applicants without one, even when all the qualifications are the same?

...

Could it be that they've read and been moved by the dozens of studies that show the cumulative health effects of racism and discrimination on people of color, and which indicate that doctors do indeed treat patients of color differently, and worse, than their white counterparts? Or perhaps the research that finds how even black women with college degrees, decent jobs and good incomes have infant mortality rates for their children that are higher than the rates for white women who dropped out before high school? And the way that researchers believe stresses associated with racial discrimination are implicated in the worse fetal and neo-natal health of these mother's children?

No.

Perhaps it's the research that shows black students being suspended and expelled from school at far higher rates than white students, even though there are no significant differences in the rates at which students of different races violate serious school rules?

No.

And on and on like that.

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Whoo! Thank you. :D