Dear White Woman, Please Come Home: Hand Me Your Bias, and I'll Show You Our Connection
Kimberlee Yolanda Williams, "Dear White Woman, Please Come Home: Hand Me Your Bias, and I'll Show You Our Connection"
English | ISBN: 099133132X | 2022 | 282 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 099133132X | 2022 | 282 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Dear White Woman, Please Come Home is Kimberlee Yolanda Williams' invitation to white women longing for authentic friendship with Black and brown women, the kind of friendship with no place for secrets, the kind of relationship where truth-telling is welcome, even when it hurts.
The idea for the book was born after attending a workshop that left her shaken and angry. In it, Kimberlee listened as white woman after white woman expressed shock, saying, I didn't know, meaning they didn't understand how this or that comment, custom, behavior, or norm so negatively impacted women of color. How could they not know? she wondered skeptically. Were they lying? Eventually she had an epiphany: How could white women know what we (Black and brown women) go through if we don't tell them? We've been trained not to tell them.
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