Reduced to Equality: My Odyssey to Renounce Racial Privilege and Find Myself by Hensley, Rebecca

Reduced to Equality: My Odyssey to Renounce Racial Privilege and Find Myself (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781517558642)

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Reduced to Equality: My Odyssey to Renounce Racial Privilege and Find Myself by Hensley, Rebecca

Reduced to Equality: My Odyssey to Renounce Racial Privilege and Find Myself

$12.95
Reduced to Equality: My Odyssey to Renounce Racial Privilege and Find Myself by Hensley, Rebecca

Reduced to Equality: My Odyssey to Renounce Racial Privilege and Find Myself

$12.95
Format: Paperback
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Reduced to Equality examines the life experiences and perspectives of one White sociologist who was born in the mountains of Kentucky, raised in a changing neighborhood in northern Illinois, gave birth to a bi-racial daughter, and eventually discovered that her ancestors were committed slave-holders. Coming to grips with her new and unexpected discovery, Hensley, with the help of her daughter, realizes that, ultimately, White people will have to do more than apologize for our shared past and present in order to ensure our future survival as a nation. Hensley's seven-decade journey to better understand what she calls the "socially-constructed, political notion of race" has taken her into prisons, universities, and even confrontations with the Ku Klux Klan. In Reduced to Equality, she lays bear her own personal vulnerability in an effort to help bridge the chasm between Black people and White people in America.

Author: Rebecca Hensley
ISBN-10: 1517558646
ISBN-13: 9781517558642
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 04/05/2016
Pages: 252
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d
By Rebecca Hensley
By Rebecca Hensley
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Rebecca Hensley is a sociologist, college teacher, political rabble rouser, social change agent, and writer. She has been studying race relations in the U.S. since 1963, often by listening to Black Americans who have shared with her truths she could not have begun to know any other way. Hensley wrote Reduced to Equality out of the profound sense of gratitude she feels for their honoring her with their trust in such a manner. As Black Americans fight to liberate themselves from the oppression of White Supremacy and its apologists in this nation, Hensley stands committed to the idea that those who have been exalted by Whiteness will have to abdicate their position -- one way or the other -- and accept being reduced to equality with all other Americans.

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