The Other Talk

Reckoning with Our White Privilege

Brendan Kiely

• Publisher: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN:
  9781534494060
• Print ISBN:
  9781534494053

A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Brendan Kiely starts a conversation with white kids about race in this "well-executed and long overdue" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review) introduction to white privilege and why allyship is so vital. Talking about racism can be hard, but...Most kids of color grow up doing it. They have "The Talk" with their families—the honest talk about survival in a racist world.But white kids don't. They're barely spoken to about race at all—and that needs to change. Because not talking about racism doesn't make it go away. Not talking about white privilege doesn't mean it doesn't exist. The Other Talk begins this much-needed conversation for white kids. In an instantly relatable and deeply honest account of his own life, Brendan Kiely offers young readers a way to understand one's own white privilege and why allyship is so vital, so that we can all start doing our part—today.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• An Introduction
• Chapter 1: Bottle of Nesquik, Bottle of Long Since Forgotten
• Chapter 2: Two Americas
• Chapter 3: So What Is This Talk I Never Got?
• Chapter 4: How I Tell a Story
• Chapter 5: White Boy
• Chapter 6: Chicken-and-Egg Problem… Solved!
• Chapter 7: Cheating to Win
• Chapter 8: How History Lives in the Present
• Chapter 9: The Entire System Is Rigged
• Chapter 10: Ninja Runs
• Chapter 11: Hard Look in the Mirror
• Chapter 12: What Bullying Looks Like… to a Whole Community
• Chapter 13: So Step Up!
• Chapter 14: Well, Actually, Hang on a Second… Step Back
• Chapter 15: Messing Up
• Chapter 16: Messing Up… and Listening
• Chapter 17: Who?
• Chapter 18: Listening… without Getting Defensive
• Chapter 19: Listening… and Believing
• Chapter 20: Taking Action
• Author’s Note
• Acknowledgments
• Endnotes
• Some People I Listened to and Learned from Who Influenced the Writing of This Book
• Copyright