Deconstructing Racism: A Path toward Lasting Change - Barbara Crain Major, Joseph Barndt

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637341 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Deconstructing Racism: A Path toward Lasting Change Author: Barbara Crain Major, Joseph Barndt Narrator: Janina Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 51 minutes Release date: January 10, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Barbara Crain Major and Joseph Barndt bring ninety combined years of experience as community organizers, teachers, and anti-racism trainers in community and church settings to this book. In Deconstructing Racism, they propose the deconstruction of racism's roots within systems and institutions that have been created, both structurally and legally, to serve white people. The authors seek to unmask the complexities of racism and the invisible patterns that keep it in place. There is no quick fix, but they believe racism can be deconstructed and undone. In order to do this, they identify and address race-based identity, history, and cultural issues rooted in current systems. Three chapters specifically address societal systems and provide anti-racism strategies for community organizers. Three chapters address racism as rooted in systems in the church and challenge people of faith to seek racial healing through understanding, honest confession, true reconciliation, and reconstructed church institutions. A final chapter outlines a way forward to and through a new era of anti-racist reconstruction. This way forward includes a new anti-racist mission statement, a new model of decision-making power, and new processes for accountability.