Raising Our Hands: How White Women Can Stop Avoiding Hard Conversations, Start Accepting Responsibility, and Find Our Place on the New Frontlines
By Jenna Arnold
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
White women are one of the most influential demographics in America—we are the largest voting bloc, with purchasing power that exceeds anybody else’s, and when we unify to demand change, we are a force to be reckoned with.
Yet, so many of us sit idly on the sidelines, opting out of raising our hands to do, learn, and engage in ways that could make a difference. Why?
White American women are no monolith. Yet, as Women’s March national organizer Jenna Arnold has learned over the past few years criss-crossing the US in conversations with white women about their identity and role in the country, we do possess common characteristics—ones that get in the way of us becoming more engaged as citizens. We're so focused on checking off our to-do lists, or so afraid of getting it wrong, or so busy trying to avoid conflict, that we are actively avoiding the urgent conversations we need to have.
We are confused about how we got here and unsure how to do better.
Raising Our Hands is the reckoning cry for white women. It asks us to step up and join the new frontlines of the fight against complacency—in our homes, in our behaviors, and in our own minds.
Consider Raising Our Hands your starting place, your “Intro to Being a White Woman in Today’s World” freshman-year class. In these pages, Jenna peels back the history that’s been kept out of textbooks and the cultural norms that are holding us back, so we can finally start really listening to marginalized voices and doing our part to promote progress.
The American white woman is a powerful force—an essential participant—to mobilize alongside the rest of humanity on behalf of the world, and we can no longer make excuses for why we don’t have time or don’t know enough.
Related to Raising Our Hands
Related ebooks
Women Who Change the World: Stories from the Fight for Social Justice Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKnowing Woman: Nurturing the Feminine Soul Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHere We Stand: Women Changing the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWe Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Creative Community Organizing: A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists, & Quiet Lovers of Justice Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Generation F: The Girls Write Now 2018 Anthology Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsQueering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gender Equity & Reconciliation: Thirty Years of Healing the Most Ancient Wound in the Human Family Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTurn Up For Freedom: Notes for All the Tough Girls* Awakening to Their Collective Power Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAnd the Spirit Moved Them: The Lost Radical History of America's First Feminists Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5When Women Run the World Sh*t Gets Done: Celebrating the Power of Women Now (Gifts for Women, Feminist Theory, Women Empowerment) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIndelible in the Hippocampus: Writings From the Me Too Movement Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThese Walls Between Us: A Memoir of Friendship Across Race and Class Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPrey Tell: Why We Silence Women Who Tell the Truth and How Everyone Can Speak Up Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Power: The Rise of Black Women in America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Pleasure Plan: One Woman's Search for Sexual Healing Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe New Black Woman: Loves Herself, Has Boundaries, & Heals Every Day Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings(R)evolution: The Girls Write Now 2016 Anthology Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Collective Visioning: How Groups Can Work Together for a Just and Sustainable Future Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDo You Have The Courage To Be You?: You Were Created On Purpose For A Purpose Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTaking On the Big Boys: Or Why Feminism Is Good for Families, Business, and the Nation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We Got Issues!: A Young Women's Guide to a Bold, Courageous and Empowered Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAsk, Listen, Act: A New Model for Philanthropy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDisposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Equal Means Equal: Why the Time for an Equal Rights Amendment Is Now Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
History For You
The Secret History of the World Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5100 Things You're Not Supposed to Know: Secrets, Conspiracies, Cover Ups, and Absurdities Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Grief Observed Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Richest Man in Babylon: The most inspiring book on wealth ever written Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Library Book Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Whore Stories: A Revealing History of the World's Oldest Profession Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters--And How to Get It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lessons of History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Raising Our Hands
0 ratings0 reviews