- 144 pages
- English
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About this book
The first book to define and explore the intergenerational impact of systemic racism on the health of Black peopleāand how to combat its pernicious effects.
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Black people, young and old, are fatigued, says award-winning diversity and inclusion leader Mary-Frances Winters. It is physically, mentally, and emotionally draining to continue to experience inequities and even atrocities, day after day, when justice is a God-given and legislated right. And it is exhausting to have to constantly explain this to white people, evenāand especiallyāwell-meaning white people, who fall prey to white fragility and too often are unwittingly complicit in upholding the very systems they say they want dismantled.
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This book, designed to illuminate the myriad dire consequences of "living while Black," came at the urging of Winters's Black friends and colleagues. Winters describes how in every aspect of lifeāfrom economics to education, work, criminal justice, and, very importantly, health outcomesāfor the most part, the trajectory for Black people is not improving. It is paradoxical that, with all the attention focused over the last fifty years on social justice and diversity and inclusion, little progress has been made in actualizing the vision of an equitable society.
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Black people are quite literally sick and tired of being sick and tired.
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"Winters's work as a diversity and inclusion leader informs this exploration of the toll that systemic racism takes on Black people every single day, and the need for activism that leads to meaningful, radical change." ā Popsugar
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"Winters hopes to inspire aspiring allies with better insight into the Black experience." ā Book Riot, "12 Essential Books About Black History and Identity"
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Black people, young and old, are fatigued, says award-winning diversity and inclusion leader Mary-Frances Winters. It is physically, mentally, and emotionally draining to continue to experience inequities and even atrocities, day after day, when justice is a God-given and legislated right. And it is exhausting to have to constantly explain this to white people, evenāand especiallyāwell-meaning white people, who fall prey to white fragility and too often are unwittingly complicit in upholding the very systems they say they want dismantled.
Ā
This book, designed to illuminate the myriad dire consequences of "living while Black," came at the urging of Winters's Black friends and colleagues. Winters describes how in every aspect of lifeāfrom economics to education, work, criminal justice, and, very importantly, health outcomesāfor the most part, the trajectory for Black people is not improving. It is paradoxical that, with all the attention focused over the last fifty years on social justice and diversity and inclusion, little progress has been made in actualizing the vision of an equitable society.
Ā
Black people are quite literally sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Ā
"Winters's work as a diversity and inclusion leader informs this exploration of the toll that systemic racism takes on Black people every single day, and the need for activism that leads to meaningful, radical change." ā Popsugar
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"Winters hopes to inspire aspiring allies with better insight into the Black experience." ā Book Riot, "12 Essential Books About Black History and Identity"
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Black Fatigue Runs Deep
- One: My Black Fatigue
- Two: Addressing Sublime Ignorance
- Three: Then Is Now
- Four: Racism Literally Makes You Sick: It Is a Preexisting Condition
- Five: The Many Layers of Black Fatigue
- Six: Say Her Name: Black Womenās Fatigue
- Seven: āI Canāt Breatheā: Black Menās Fatigue
- Eight: Out of the Mouths of Babes: Black Childrenās Fatigue
- Nine: A Clarion Call for Collective Action to Combat Black Fatigue
- Conclusion: Reimagining a Just World
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- About the Author
- About the Winters Group, Inc.