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Robin DiAngelo

Having contributed the foreword, this educator has 25 years of experience leading antiracist programs. She challenges the idea that the victims of oppression owe explanations of how to end oppression.

Layla F. Saad

A British-born Qatari writer, she presents a series of exercises people can use to begin to undo their own part in white supremacy. She notes that the work to do so is always ongoing and that it has to be to be effective.

Octavia Butler

An award-winning science fiction author quoted repeatedly throughout the book, this writer pioneered Afrofuturism. Her works frequently critique and question the preconceived notions of Western society.

Audre Lorde

An author and critic quoted throughout the book, this writer notes the necessary persistence of working for change. For her, it is never a thing done, but always a thing being done.

Peggy McIntosh

A women’s studies scholar, she coined the...

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