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Bezig met laden... Climate Change Is Racist: Race, Privilege and the Struggle for Climate Justice (origineel 2021; editie 2021)door Jeremy Williams (Auteur), Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu (Voorwoord)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Climate Change is Racist: Race, Privilege, and the Struggle for Climate Justice is not my "typical" non-fiction pick. I always joke that anything in the STEM field goes way over my head. When I read the description for the book, I was intrigued. The book itself challenges readers to look at what they know about racism. Now, most readers who pick up this book are aware of personal biases or institutional attitudes that harm people of color, especially Black people. This harm can impact everything, from self-esteem to job acquisition. Williams pushes past surface-level understandings of racism to discuss the structural racism built into our society (which ultimately causes personal and institutional racism) and how this structure, combined with climate change, reinforces the racial injustices and inequalities. Jeremy Williams takes readers all over the world to discuss how white privilege affects climate change. Through this travel, Williams encourages readers to look at the expertise presented by activists and scientists while also understanding the effect this climate change has on the most impacted communities. Dr. Shola Mos-Shogbamimu (author of This is Why I Resist: Don't Define My Black Identity) wrote the foreword and it is short but absolutely impactful. I also thought that having Mos-Shogbamimu write a foreword was a good way to add a different perspective to reinforce his words and research. During this book, I definitely found myself understanding climate change in a much deeper way. The recent environmental events impacting the world around us make this book's topic more relevant than ever. Reading this with those events fresh in my mind just reinforced that it is up to all of us to push for change and justice. It is the only way we can hope to lessen the impact of climate change and right the wrongs of society thus far. Overall rating: 4.5/5 (rounded to 4) Climate Change is Racist is available for purchase now. Be sure to add it to your Goodreads shelf. Also, be sure to check out Jeremy Williams’s website! I was lucky enough to be able to read this Advanced Reader's Copy through my partnership with NetGalley. All opinions are my own. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"When we talk about racism, we often mean personal prejudice or institutional bias. Climate change isn't racist in that way. It is structurally racist, disproportionately caused by majority White people in majority White counties, with the damage unleashed overwhelmingly on people of colour. In this eye-opening book, writer and environmental activist Jeremy Williams takes us on a short, urgent journey across the globe--from Kenya to India, the USA to Australia--to understand how White privilege and climate change overlap. We'll look at the environmental facts, hear the experiences of the people most affected on our planet and learn from the activists leading the charge."--Back cover Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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This and countless other stories and facts are weaved together in a seemingly flawless way (although I realise the book took a long time to write!) to drive home Williams' compelling argument that climate change is inherently racist due to global structures and values going all the way back to colonialism, which ultimately privilege the largely White, Western, wealthy nations over the developing Brown and Black south. A book to be read, reread, highlighted and acted upon. ( )