1st Edition

Tactics for Racial Justice Building an Antiracist Organization and Community

By Shannon Joyce Prince Copyright 2022
142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

This is not a book of antiracist theory but antiracist tactics – tactics that anyone, of any race, can use to strike a blow against injustice. Antiracism is not about what we feel but what we do, and there are specific techniques we can use to create a just world.  Antiracist strategies are skills that can be learned just as we learn skills for public speaking or hitting a baseball. In... Read more

Introduction – the antiracist journey: moving from feeling to fighting; 1 Leading in the wake of an act of explicit racism; 2 Antiracism rhetorical chess: how to discuss and debate racism effectively; 3 Unweaving systemic racism; 4 Reckoning with the past; 5 Making powerful change when you lack political, institutional, or… any power; Epilogue – ancestors and avatars: becoming what the future requires

Biography

Shannon Joyce Prince earned her doctorate in African and African American Studies and her master’s in English from Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, her law degree from Yale Law School, and her bachelor’s degree magna cum laude from Dartmouth College. She is the founding attorney of Sovereignty and Justice Law, where her practice centers on Indigenous rights.

"Prince's book takes us the next step, beyond How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi and White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin Di Angelo, to share actual tactics for how to fix the problems those books address. Read Tactics for Racial Justice, and give a copy to someone you know who is seeking leadership, good sense, and guidelines for real change."

Susan Neiman, Director, Einstein Forum