A Boston Globe Most Anticipated Fall Book In this urgently needed guide, the PBS host, award-winning journalist, and author of We Need to Talk teaches us how to have productive conversations about race, offering insights, advice, and support.
It is an essential and timely book for all of us..
This is the book for people who have tried to debate and educate and argue and got nowhere; it is the book for those who have stopped talking to a neighbor or dread Thanksgiving dinner.
In Speaking of Race , Headlee draws from her experiences as a journalist, and the latest research on bias, communication, and neuroscience to provide practical advice and insight for talking about race that will facilitate better conversations that can actually bring us closer together.
If we are to effect meaningful change as a society, Headlee argues, we have to be able to Talk about what that change looks like without fear of losing friends and jobs, or being ostracized.
Yet we gain nothing by not engaging with those we disagree with; empathy does not develop in a vacuum and racism won\'t just fade away.
To avoid these painful discussions, we stay in our bubbles, reinforcing our own sense of righteousness as well as our division.
The subject makes us uncomfortable; it\'s often not considered polite or appropriate.
While many people say they want to Talk about race, the reality is, they want to Talk about race with people who agree with them.
She\'s discovered, however, that those exchanges have rarely been productive.
In her career as a journalist for public media, she\'s made it a priority to Talk about race proactively.
A self-described light-skinned Black Jew, Celeste Headlee has been forced to speak about race--including having to defend or define her own--since childhood.
A Boston Globe Most Anticipated Fall Book In this urgently needed guide, the PBS host, award-winning journalist, and author of We Need to Talk teaches us how to have productive conversations about race, offering insights, advice, and support
