Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race

For twenty-five years, Debby Irving sensed inexplicable racial tensions in her personal and professional relationships. As a colleague and neighbor, she worried about offending people she dearly wanted to befriend. As an arts administrator, she didn't understand why her diversity efforts lacked traction. As a teacher, she found her best efforts to reach out to students and families of color left her wondering what she was missing. Then, in 2009, one "aha!" moment launched an adventure of discovery and insight that drastically shifted her worldview and upended her life plan. In Waking Up White, Irving tells her often cringe-worthy story with such openness that readers will turn every page rooting for her-and ultimately for all of us.

• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
• So You Want to Talk About Race
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race
• The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy (Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and Social Identity)
• White Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White
• The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys
• Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out
• I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
• Race in the 21st Century: Ethnographic Approaches
• White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide